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Curator vs Picket - What's the difference?

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Curator is a related term of picket.


As nouns the difference between curator and picket

is that curator is a person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo while picket is a stake driven into the ground.

As a verb picket is

to protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

curator

Alternative forms

* curatour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
  • One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
  • Derived terms

    * curate * curatorial * curatory

    See also

    * custodian * keeper * manager * overseer

    picket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stake driven into the ground.
  • (historical) A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
  • A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
  • (military) Soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance. It can also refer to any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
  • * 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 59:
  • So confident was he that he ignored the warning of his two British advisers to post pickets to watch the river, and even withdrew those they had placed there.
  • A sentry. Can be used figuratively.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , chapter=26, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket , and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.}}
  • A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
  • * , chapter=22
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (card games) The card game piquet.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
  • To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
  • To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
  • to picket a horse
  • To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
  • (obsolete) To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
  • Derived terms

    * picket line * picketing * unpicketed ----