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Reporter vs Critic - What's the difference?

reporter | critic |

As nouns the difference between reporter and critic

is that reporter is agent noun of report; someone or something that reports while critic is a person who appraises the works of others.

As a verb critic is

to criticise.

reporter

English

Alternative forms

* reportor (obsolete) * reportour (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia reporter) (en noun)
  • Agent noun of report; someone or something that reports.
  • A journalist who investigates, edits and reports news stories for newspapers, radio and television.
  • A person who records and issues official reports of judicial or legislative proceedings.
  • (legal) A case reporter; a bound volume of printed legal opinions from a particular jurisdiction.
  • A gene attached by a researcher to a regulatory sequence of another gene of interest, typically used as an indication of whether a certain gene has been taken up by or expressed in the cell or organism population.

    • Derived terms

    * case reporter * court reporter * cub reporter * law reporter * police reporter

    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.

    Related terms

    * crisis * criticism * critical * critical mass * criticize / criticise * critically * critique * criterion

    Verb

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

    Anagrams

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