Vocabulary : Monistic to Monitress
Monistic : Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.Monition : Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. ;; Information; indication; notice; advice. ;; A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer. ;; An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.
Monitive : Conveying admonition; admonitory.
Monitor : One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. ;; Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class. ;; Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long. ;; An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns. ;; 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 successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting. ;; A monitor nozzle.
Monitor nozzle : A nozzle capable of turning completely round in a horizontal plane and having a limited play in a vertical plane, used in hydraulic mining, fire-extinguishing apparatus, etc.
