Censor vs Learn - What's the difference?
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(history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
One who censures or condemns
(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
(acronym ) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios
To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
To remove objectionable content
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
To attend a course or other educational activity.
* 1719 ,
To gain knowledge from a bad experience.
To be studying.
To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
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*:And whan she had serched hym / she fond in the bottome of his wound that therin was poyson / And soo she heled hym/ and therfore Tramtrist cast grete loue to la beale Isoud / for she was at that tyme the fairest mayde and lady of the worlde / And there Tramtryst lerned her to harpe / and she beganne to haue grete fantasye vnto hym
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
*:Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
*circa 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline), :
*:Have I not been / Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how / To make perfumes?
*1993 , The Simpsons , (18 Feb. 1993)
*:That'll learn him to bust my tomater.
As verbs the difference between censor and learn
is that censor is to review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers while learn is to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something or learn can be .As a noun censor
is (history) a roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.censor
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Alternative forms
* censour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Ancient censors were part of the ''cursus honorum , a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- The headmaster is an even stricter censor''' for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy ' censors had been for his own when the country was occupied.
Synonyms
* censurerVerb
(en verb)- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- ''Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance
Synonyms
* bowdlerizeSee also
* decensor * expurgateExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----learn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lernen, from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) lernen.Verb
- For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
- learn from one's mistakes
- He just learned that he will be sacked.
Usage notes
* See other, dated and regional, sense of below.Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare Dutch leren, German (m).Verb
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