Detected vs Monitored - What's the difference?
detected | monitored |
Referring to something that has been noticed.
(detect)
(monitor)
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
* 1829 , Charles Sprague,
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
(computing) A program for viewing and editing.
(British) A student leader in a class.
* 1871 , ,
* 1881 , , Chapter X,
(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than combat with other ships.
(archaic) An ironclad.
A monitor lizard.
(obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
* Francis Bacon
(engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring the several tools successively into position.
To watch over; to guard.
* 1993 , H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide , World Health Organization,
* 1997 , Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers , Volumes 23-373,
* 2002', Mark Baker, Garry Smith, ''GridRM: A Resource '''Monitoring Architecture for the Grid'', in Manish Parashar (editor), ''Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop , Springer, LNCS 2536,
As verbs the difference between detected and monitored
is that detected is (detect) while monitored is (monitor).As an adjective detected
is referring to something that has been noticed.detected
English
Adjective
(-)- The detected submarine was tracked by sonar, it was easy once they knew where to look.
Antonyms
* undetected * non-detectedVerb
(head)- We detected the submarine long before it observed us.
monitored
English
Verb
(head)monitor
English
Alternative forms
* monitour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
- And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
- A monitor , though still;
- Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
- Beyond the preacher's skill.
- The information flashed up on the monitor .
- a machine code monitor
- So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors , who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
- But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors !
- You need not be a monitor to the king.
Derived terms
* hall monitor * hallway monitor * monitor lizard * water monitorSee also
* display * screen * VDUVerb
(en verb)page 134,
- Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
page 239,
- During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
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- A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored' and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance ' monitoring , analysis, prediction and tuning.