Critic vs Referee - What's the difference?
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A person who appraises the works of others.
* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
(sports) An umpire or judge; the official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game
A person who settles a dispute
A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone
An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published
To act as a referee.
* 'He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.'
* 'She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature .'
Critic is a related term of referee.
As an adjective critic
is critical.As a noun critic
is critic.As a verb referee is
.critic
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(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- 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
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
Anagrams
* ----referee
English
Noun
(en noun)- 'The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.'
- Your application, along with letters from three referees , should be received by January 31.