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Critic vs Assessor - What's the difference?

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Critic is a related term of assessor.


As nouns the difference between critic and assessor

is that critic is critic while assessor is one who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.

As an adjective critic

is critical.

critic

English

(wikipedia critic)

Alternative forms

* critick (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who appraises the works of others.
  • * Macaulay
  • The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
  • A specialist in judging works of art.
  • One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
  • * I. Watts
  • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
  • An opponent.
  • (an act of criticism)
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Make each day a critic on the last.
  • (the art of criticism)
  • * John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
  • And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic , than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.

    Verb

  • (obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
  • * A. Brewer
  • Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    assessor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * assessour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who assesses a property for tax or insurance evaluation.
  • A specialist who assists the court in determining a matter.
  • Tax assessor : Civil servant entrusted with checking the veracity of data and criteria used by a taxpayer to complete a tax return.
  • One who assesses a project for cost evaluation.
  • An official responsible for student welfare.