English words for 'Alternative form of monitorization.'
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noun
- Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
- (law) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
- Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
- (military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
- close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
noun
- One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice.
- (motor racing) Synonym of spotter.
- A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate.
- One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
- A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
- (military) A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft.
- (military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post.
- an expert who observes and comments on something
- a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
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noun
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- (Philippines, education) A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
- (computing) A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Sound stored on a record.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- Physical course; way.
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
verb
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- (transitive) To tow.
- (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- carry on the feet and deposit
- travel across or pass over
- make tracks upon
noun
- Initialism of performance monitoring system.
- Initialism of performance management system.
- Initialism of project management system.
- (computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.
- Initialism of planned maintenance system.
- Initialism of Phelan-McDermid syndrome.
- Initialism of performance measurement system.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.
- a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
adj
name
verb
adj
noun
- (computing) Initialism of performance monitoring counter.
- Initialism of professional middle class.
- Initialism of professional–managerial class.
- (military) Initialism of private military company or corporation.
- (military) Initialism of private military contractor.
- Initialism of polar mesospheric cloud.
- (real estate) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
name
- (military) Initialism of People's Mobilization Committee.
- (Philippines, military) Initialism of Philippine Marine Corps.
- (Australian politics) Initialism of prime minister and cabinet.
- (military) Initialism of President of the Mess Committee.
- (software) Initialism of project management committee (a committee of the Apache Software Foundation)
noun
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
- one who supervises or has charge and direction of
- a program that controls the execution of other programs
verb
- keep under surveillance
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- be the successor (of)
- to be the product or result
- be next
- adhere to or practice
- to bring something about at a later time than
- keep to
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- come after in time, as a result
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
- be later in time
- travel along a certain course
- grasp the meaning
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
noun
verb
- keep under surveillance
- plot a map of (land)
- consider in a comprehensive way
- look over carefully or inspect
- hold a review (of troops)
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- a detailed critical inspection
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- (US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- (historical) An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
verb
- To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
- To interrogate.
- To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
- To check the health or condition of something or someone.
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- question or examine thoroughly and closely
- question closely
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
noun
verb
noun
- (electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
- A guard dog.
- (figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
- a dog trained to guard property
- a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
noun
verb
noun
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
- a period of sleeplessness
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
- The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
verb
noun
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- a small portable timepiece
- A person or group of people who guard.
- The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
- A particular time period when guarding is kept.
- The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
- (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
- The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
- (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
- A portable or wearable timepiece.
- A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
verb
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful
- observe or determine by looking
- observe without intervening
- see or watch
- look attentively
- (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
- (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
- (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
- (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
- (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
- (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
- (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
- (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
- (ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
noun
- A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
- (British) A personal bodyguard.
- One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
- a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babies' parents are working
- someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
adj
- Watched over; supervised.
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
- prudent
verb
verb
noun
- someone who supervises (an examination)
- electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
- display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
- someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
- any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
- (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 several tools successively into position.
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- A monitor nozzle.
- A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
- (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
verb
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
adj
noun
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- (mining) A tailing.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
noun
- (computing) Initialism of Conversational Monitor System.
- (education) Initialism of career management skills.
- (materials science) Initialism of carbon microsphere.
- Initialism of congenital myasthenic syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of content management system.
- (computing) Initialism of color management system.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of call management system.
- (video games) Initialism of construction and management simulation, a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters.
- (physics, atom) Initialism of compact muon solenoid.
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adj
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- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
noun
- Continuous monitoring of disease occurrence for example.
- (law) In criminal law, an investigation process by which police gather evidence about crimes, or suspected crime, through continued observation of persons or places.
- Close observation of an individual or group; person or persons under suspicion.
- (military, espionage) Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means.
- close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
noun
- One who makes observations, monitors or takes notice.
- (motor racing) Synonym of spotter.
- A person sent as a representative, to a meeting or other function to monitor but not to participate.
- One who adheres or follows laws, guidelines, etc.
- A country or other entity which has limited participation rights within an organization.
- (military) A crew member on an aircraft who makes observations of enemy positions or aircraft.
- (military) A sentry etc. manning an observation post.
- an expert who observes and comments on something
- a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
noun
- Awareness of something, especially when arising from close monitoring.
- The physical track on a record.
- A mark left by something that has passed along.
- A mark or impression left by the foot, either of man or animal.
- (uncountable, sports) The racing events of track and field; track and field in general.
- (railways) The way or rails along which a train moves.
- (Philippines, education) A specialization in senior high school. Some tracks consist of strands.
- (computing) A circular (never-ending) data storage unit on a side of magnetic or optical disk, divided into sectors.
- (fashion, colloquial) Clipping of trackshoe.
- A tract or area, such as of land.
- Sound stored on a record.
- (cricket) The pitch.
- (music) A song or other relatively short piece of music, on a record, separated from others by a short silence.
- A path or course laid out for a race, for exercise, etc.
- The direction and progress of someone or something; path.
- (automotive) The distance between two opposite wheels on a same axletree.
- (automotive) Ellipsis of caterpillar track.
- (slang) The street, as a prostitute's place of work.
- A road or other similar beaten path.
- A themed set of talks within a conference.
- The entire lower surface of the foot; said of birds, etc.
- Physical course; way.
- the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
- a groove on a phonograph recording
- a course over which races are run
- (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- evidence pointing to a possible solution
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
- any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
- a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
verb
- (intransitive) To exhibit good cognitive function.
- (transitive or intransitive) To create a musical recording (a track).
- (transitive) To observe the (measured) state of a person or object over time.
- (transitive) To follow the tracks of.
- (transitive) To traverse; to move across.
- (intransitive, chiefly of a storm) To move.
- To separate into educational tracks, each of which teaches to a different level of ability.
- (transitive or intransitive, of a camera) To travel so that a moving object remains in shot.
- (transitive) To match the movement or change of a person or object.
- (computing, transitive or intransitive) To create music using tracker software.
- (transitive) To discover the location of a person or object by following traces.
- (transitive) To tow.
- (transitive) To make tracks on or to leave in the form of tracks.
- (transitive) To monitor the movement of a person or object.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To make sense; to be consistent with known information
- go after with the intent to catch
- observe or plot the moving path of something
- carry on the feet and deposit
- travel across or pass over
- make tracks upon
noun
- Initialism of performance monitoring system.
- Initialism of performance management system.
- Initialism of project management system.
- (computing, countable) Initialism of package management system.
- Initialism of planned maintenance system.
- Initialism of Phelan-McDermid syndrome.
- Initialism of performance measurement system.
- (medicine, uncountable) Initialism of premenstrual syndrome or premenstrual stress.
- a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
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name
verb
noun
- (computing) Initialism of performance monitoring counter.
- Initialism of professional middle class.
- Initialism of professional–managerial class.
- (military) Initialism of private military company or corporation.
- (military) Initialism of private military contractor.
- Initialism of polar mesospheric cloud.
- (real estate) Initialism of property management company or corporation.
name
- (military) Initialism of People's Mobilization Committee.
- (Philippines, military) Initialism of Philippine Marine Corps.
- (Australian politics) Initialism of prime minister and cabinet.
- (military) Initialism of President of the Mess Committee.
- (software) Initialism of project management committee (a committee of the Apache Software Foundation)
noun
- A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
- (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
- (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
- (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
- one who supervises or has charge and direction of
- a program that controls the execution of other programs
noun
verb
noun
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- A period of observation or surveillance at any hour.
- a period of sleeplessness
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- An instance of keeping awake during normal sleeping hours, especially to keep watch or pray.
- A quiet demonstration in support of a cause.
- The eve of a religious festival in which staying awake is part of the ritual devotions.
verb
noun
- a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe
- the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty
- the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
- a small portable timepiece
- A person or group of people who guard.
- The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.
- A particular time period when guarding is kept.
- The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
- (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
- The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
- (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
- A portable or wearable timepiece.
- A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
verb
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful
- observe or determine by looking
- observe without intervening
- see or watch
- look attentively
- (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
- (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
- (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
- (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
- (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
- (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
- (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
- (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
- (ambitransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
noun
- A monitor assigned by the authorities to someone, such as a foreign visitor (to exercise control over their contacts with the populace) or a journalist or someone who is speaking to journalists (to monitor and control what they say).
- (British) A personal bodyguard.
- One who minds, tends, or watches something such as a child, a machine, or cattle; a keeper.
- a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babies' parents are working
- someone (usually in totalitarian countries) who is assigned to watch over foreign visitors
noun
- (computing) Initialism of Conversational Monitor System.
- (education) Initialism of career management skills.
- (materials science) Initialism of carbon microsphere.
- Initialism of congenital myasthenic syndrome.
- (computing) Initialism of content management system.
- (computing) Initialism of color management system.
- (telecommunications) Initialism of call management system.
- (video games) Initialism of construction and management simulation, a style of game that involves planning and managing a population of citizens in a town or similar, without direct control of characters.
- (physics, atom) Initialism of compact muon solenoid.
name
verb
- keep under surveillance
- follow with the eyes or the mind
- work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function
- be the successor (of)
- to be the product or result
- be next
- adhere to or practice
- to bring something about at a later time than
- keep to
- follow in or as if in pursuit
- come after in time, as a result
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes
- perform an accompaniment to
- keep informed
- to subscribe to someone's updates on social media
- to travel behind, go after, come after
- follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something
- imitate in behavior; take as a model
- to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media
- be later in time
- travel along a certain course
- grasp the meaning
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of
- behave in accordance or in agreement with
- (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.
- (transitive) To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).
- (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to.
- (ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
- (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).
- (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.
- (transitive) To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.
- (transitive) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
- (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence.
noun
verb
- keep under surveillance
- plot a map of (land)
- consider in a comprehensive way
- look over carefully or inspect
- hold a review (of troops)
- make a survey of; for statistical purposes
- To view with a scrutinizing eye; to examine.
- To determine the form, extent, position, etc., of, as a tract of land, a coast, harbor, or the like, by means of linear and angular measurements, and the application of the principles of geometry and trigonometry
- To investigate the opinions, experiences, etc., of people by asking them questions; to conduct a survey; to administer a questionnaire.
- To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook
- To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same.
- To examine with reference to condition, situation, value, etc.; to examine and ascertain the state of
noun
- short descriptive summary (of events)
- the act of looking or seeing or observing
- a detailed critical inspection
- The operation of finding the contour, dimensions, position, or other particulars of any part of the Earth's surface.
- A measured plan and description of any portion of country.
- A particular view; an examination, especially an official examination, of a particular group of items, in order to ascertain the condition, quantity, or quality.
- (US) A district for the collection of customs under a particular officer.
- A questionnaire or similar instrument used for examining the opinions of a group of people.
- The act of surveying; a general view.
- (historical) An auction at which a farm is let for a lease for lives.
- An examination of the opinions of a group of people.
verb
- To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
- To interrogate.
- To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
- To check the health or condition of something or someone.
- consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
- question or examine thoroughly and closely
- question closely
- observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
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verb
noun
- (electronics, computing) Ellipsis of watchdog timer.
- A guard dog.
- (figurative) An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically.
- a dog trained to guard property
- a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste
verb
noun
- someone who supervises (an examination)
- electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions
- display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble
- someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
- any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
- (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 several tools successively into position.
- Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
- A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
- A monitor nozzle.
- A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
- (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
- (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat.
- (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
verb
- (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
- (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- remove the stalk of fruits or berries
- go after with the intent to catch
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noun
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
- (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
- (surgery) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
- (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
- (mining) A tailing.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
- (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
- The tail-end of any object.
- (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
- (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- (chemistry) The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the time of the last part of something
adj
adj
- Watched over; supervised.
- (especially heraldry) Having a guard, e.g. a crossguard (on a sword), a faceguard (on a helmet), or a hatguard (on a chapeau).
- Cautious; restrained.
- (medicine, of prognosis) A good outcome has fair odds of happening but close monitoring is important because odds of deterioration are not low.
- prudent
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- (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
- a police officer who investigates crimes
- an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public