Censor vs Restrict - What's the difference?
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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
To restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.
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, year=2011
, date=September 28
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, title=Valencia 1 - 1 Chelsea
, work=BBC Sport
(specifically, mathematics) To consider (a function) as defined on a subset of its original domain.
As verbs the difference between censor and restrict
is that censor is to review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers while restrict is to restrain within bounds; to limit; to confine; as, to restrict worlds to a particular meaning; to restrict a patient to a certain diet.As a noun censor
is a Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.As an adjective restrict is
restricted.censor
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Alternative forms
* 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
Synonyms
* bowdlerizeSee also
* decensor * expurgateExternal links
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Verb
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