Talk:monitor

I'm not sure that the meaning the word has in the phrase trade monitor is represented here.82.131.26.166 09:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

I think it's included in the very first sense. I would need to see one or more quotations or links of the term in use to know for sure. DCDuring TALK 01:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Missing sense?

The Webster 1913 supplement has another sense for this word: "a monitor nozzle". I don't know what that actually means, though. Equinox ◑ 21:39, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

 Done Sense added (linking to monitor nozzle). Equinox ◑ 16:43, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

School monitors

I'm not sure that the British school use of "monitor" to mean a kind of lower-ranking prefect is archaic. We certainly still used it when I was at school in Scotland in the 1980s, and I see that "monitor" badges designed for school use are still on sale on-line: http://prefectschoolbadges.co.uk/Red-Polydome-Bar-Monitor-54. It might be better to delete the "archaic" tag, and why not put a picture of one of these badges into the article? --Doric Loon (talk) 13:14, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

An 1828 citation

Not certain whether it's "one who watches" or "one who gives instruction" here. See full book text [1].

• 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet

  "I am far frae justifying myself," returned Andrew, surveying his shrivelled monitor with some degree of astonishment. "But there are some feelings that neither reason nor religion can o'er-master; and there are some that a parent may cherish without sin."

Equinox ◑ 14:49, 27 August 2021 (UTC)