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Censor vs Restrict - What's the difference?

censor | restrict |

As verbs the difference between censor and restrict

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 restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.

As a noun censor

is a Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.

As an adjective restrict is

restricted.

censor

English

Alternative forms

* censour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
    • 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.
  • 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

    • Synonyms

    * censurer

    Related terms

    * censorial * censorious * censorship * censure * census

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
  • To remove objectionable content
    • ''Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance

    Synonyms

    * bowdlerize

    See also

    * decensor * expurgate

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    restrict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 28 , author=Jon Smith , title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It was no less than Valencia deserved after dominating possession in the final 20 minutes although Chelsea defended resolutely and restricted the Spanish side to shooting from long range.}}
  • (specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
    • If we restrict sine to [-\frac\pi2,\frac\pi2], we can define its inverse.

    Synonyms

    * (to restrain within bounds) limit, bound, circumscribe, withstrain, restrain, repress, curb, coerce

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Restricted.

    • Anagrams

    * *