Sensor vs. Censor

A device, such as a photoelectric cell, that receives and responds to a signal or stimulus.

A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.

See sense organ.

An official, as in the armed forces, who examines personal mail and official dispatches to remove information considered secret or a risk to security.

A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.

One that condemns or censures.

Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

One of two officials in ancient Rome responsible for taking the public census and supervising public behavior and morals.

Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner

(Psychology) The component of the unconscious that is posited by psychoanalytic theory to be responsible for preventing certain thoughts or feelings from reaching the conscious mind.

To examine and expurgate.

One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century {{B.C.E.}} and the 6th century {{C.E.}}) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.

A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.

An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.

(education) A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution.

(obsolete) One who censures or condemns.

(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind.

(transitive) To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; - an official in some European countries.

One given to fault-finding; a censurer.

A critic; a reviewer.

A person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

Subject to political, religious, or moral censorship;