Control vs. Monitor: What's the Difference?

To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over; direct

One that admonishes, cautions, or reminds, especially with respect to matters of conduct.

To adjust to a requirement; regulate

A pupil who assists a teacher in routine duties.

To hold in restraint; check

A usually electronic device used to record, regulate, or control a process or system.

To reduce or prevent the spread of

A video display or speaker used in a production studio to check audio or video quality

To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.

(Computers)A device that accepts video signals from a computer and displays information on a screen; a video display.

To verify (a financial account, for example) by using a duplicate register for comparison.

(Computers)A program that observes, supervises, or controls the activities of other programs.

Authority or ability to manage or direct

An articulated device holding a rotating nozzle with which a jet of water is regulated, used in mining and firefighting.

One that controls; a controlling agent, device, or organization.

A heavily ironclad warship of the 19th century with a low, flat deck and one or more gun turrets.

An instrument.

A modern warship designed for coastal bombardment.

Controls A set of such instruments.

See monitor lizard.

A restraining device, measure, or limit; a curb

To check the quality or content of (an electronic audio or visual signal) by means of a receiver.

A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of a scientific experiment.

To check by means of an electronic receiver for significant content, such as military, political, or illegal activity

An individual or group used as a standard of comparison in a scientific experiment, as a group of subjects given an inactive substance in an experiment testing a new drug administered to another group of subjects.

To keep track of systematically with a view to collecting information

An intelligence agent who supervises or instructs another agent.

To test or sample, especially on a regular or ongoing basis

A spirit presumed to speak or act through a medium.

To keep close watch over; supervise

(transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.

To direct.

(construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or more variables are reduced or eliminated.

To act as a monitor.

To verify the accuracy of (something or someone, especially a financial account) by comparison with another account.

Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.

To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.

A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.

(transitive) To hold in check, to curb, to restrain.

(computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.

Influence or authority over something.

A studio monitor or loudspeaker.

The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever, handle or button.

(computing) A program for viewing and editing.

Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.

A student leader in a class.

A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities; a safeguard or countermeasure.

(nautical) One of a class of relatively small armored warships 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. from 1862

(project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not going according to plan.

(archaic) An ironclad.

A control group or control experiment.

A monitor lizard.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.

(obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

(graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window or a text box Ctrl.

(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.

(climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

A monitor nozzle.

(linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an expression in context. See control.

(transitive) To watch over; to guard.

A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.

One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

A checkpoint along an audax route.

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.

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (Varanus Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.

That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint.

An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

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.

The complete apparatus used to control a mechanism or machine in operation, as a flying machine in flight;

A monitor nozzle.

Any of the physical factors determining the climate of any particular place, as latitude,distribution of land and water, altitude, exposure, prevailing winds, permanent high- or low-barometric-pressure areas, ocean currents, mountain barriers, soil, and vegetation.

Display consisting of a device that takes signals from a computer and displays them on a CRT screen

In research, an object or subject used in an experimental procedure, which is treated identically to the primary subject of the experiment, except for the omission of the specific treatment or conditions whose effect is being investigated. If the control is a group of living organisms, as is common in medical research, it is called the control group.

Someone who supervises (an examination)

The part of an experimental procedure in which the controls{6} are subjected to the experimental conditions.

Someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided

The group of technical specialists exercising control by remote communications over a distant operation, such as a space flight; as, the American Mission Control for manned flights is located in Houston.

An iron-clad vessel built by Federal forces to do battle with the Merrimac

To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute.

Electronic equipment that is used to check the quality or content of electronic transmissions

To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.

A piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble

To assure the validity of an experimental procedure by using a control{7}.

Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles

Power to direct or determine;

Keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance

A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another;

(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc;

A standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment;

The activity of managing or exerting control over something;

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another;

Discipline in personal and social activities;

Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity;

The economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.;

A mechanism that controls the operation of a machine;

A spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance

Exercise authoritative control or power over;

Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits;

Handle and cause to function;

Control (others or oneself) or influence skillfully, usually to one's advantage;

Verify or regulate by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard, of scientific experiments;

Verify by using a duplicate register for comparison;

Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something;

Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of;