Editor vs Censor - What's the difference?
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A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
A copy editor.
A person who edited a specific document.
* John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish.
* John is the city editor at the ''Daily Times''.
A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
(computer software) A program for creating]] and [[make, making changes to files, especially text files.
* The TPU EVE editor''' is an excellent, extensible, programmable '''editor .
(television, cinematography) Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
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(history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
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
To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
To remove objectionable content
As nouns the difference between editor and censor
is that editor is a person who edits or makes changes to documents while censor is (history) a roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.As a verb censor is
to review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.editor
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* (abbreviations) * (titular abbreviation) * (qualifier)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* copy editor * flatbed editor * editorial * editorializing * * editor-in-chief * editAnagrams
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censor
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* censour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- The Ancient censors were part of the ''cursus honorum , a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- 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.
Synonyms
* censurerVerb
(en verb)- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- ''Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance