Critic vs Umpire - 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
(tennis) The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair.
(cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
(baseball) One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game.
(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.
(Australian rules football) A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses 3, or in the past 2 or just 1. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are normally not called just umpires alone.
(legal) A person who arbitrates between contending parties
(sports) To act as an umpire in a game.
To decide as an umpire; to arbitrate; to settle (a dispute, etc.).
* South
Critic is a related term of umpire.
As nouns the difference between critic and umpire
is that critic is critic while umpire is (tennis) the official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair.As an adjective critic
is critical.As a verb umpire is
(sports|intransitive) to act as an umpire in a game.critic
English
(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
* ----umpire
English
(wikipedia umpire)Noun
(en noun)- The umpire called the pitch a strike.
- The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.
Usage notes
* In general, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.Verb
(umpir)- Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.