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Umpire vs Controller - What's the difference?

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Umpire is a related term of controller.


As nouns the difference between umpire and controller

is that umpire is (tennis) the official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair while controller is one who controls something.

As a verb umpire

is (sports|intransitive) to act as an umpire in a game.

umpire

English

(wikipedia umpire)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
    • The umpire called the pitch a strike.
  • (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.
    • The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.
  • (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

    • Usage notes

    * In general, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.

    Verb

    (umpir)
  • (sports) To act as an umpire in a game.
  • To decide as an umpire; to arbitrate; to settle (a dispute, etc.).
  • * South
    • Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.

    Synonyms

    * referee

    Anagrams

    * English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article

    controller

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who controls something.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
    • The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.
  • (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
  • (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
  • (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.

    • Synonyms

    * administrator * foreman * chief, head, head man * comptroller * overseer * organizer * superintendent * supervisor

    Derived terms

    * memory controller * microcontroller

    Related terms

    * control theory