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See also:MONITOR (from See also:Lat. monere, to warn, advise)
, an advisor or counsellor, one who warns another See also:person as to his course of See also:action, also used of things that are more or less personified, as See also:conscience
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The word is chiefly applied to See also:senior pupils (also known as " prefects ") in some of the See also:great secondary See also:schools in See also:England; in See also:America to senior students in certain colleges to whom See also:special duties are assigned, particularly that of keeping See also:order; and also to See also:pupil teachers in See also:English elementary schools
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It is used in a See also:general way of anything that gives warning, and in this sense is applied to a See also:lizard of the See also:family Monitoridae, or Varanidae, found in See also:Africa and See also:Australia, which is supposed to give warning of the approach of crocodiles
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The name of See also:monitor was also given to a particular See also:kind of ironclad invented for the See also:American See also:navy by See also:Captain See also: |
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