Sensor vs. Censor
Difference Between Sensor and Censor
Sensornoun
A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
Censornoun
(history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.
The Ancient censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.Sensornoun
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
Censornoun
An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content.
The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied.Censornoun
One who censures or condemns.
Censornoun
(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious.
Censorverb
(transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.
The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.Censorverb
(transitive) To remove objectionable content.
''Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistanceCensornoun
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
Censorverb
forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
Censorverb
subject to political, religious, or moral censorship;
This magazine is censored by the government
