Umpire vs Pundit - What's the difference?
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(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.
(American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.
(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
(sports) To act as an umpire in a game.
To decide as an umpire; to arbitrate; to settle (a dispute, etc.).
* South
A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar.
* 1888 , (Rudyard Kipling), ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 430:
(historical) A native surveyor in British India, trained to carry out clandestine surveillance beyond British borders.
* 1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game , Folio Society 2010, p. 295:
A self-professed expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic.
* 2006 , The Observer , 4 Jun 2006:
Umpire is a related term of pundit.
As nouns the difference between umpire and pundit
is that umpire is (tennis) the official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair while pundit is a learned person in india; someone with knowledge of sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a hindu scholar.As a verb umpire
is (sports|intransitive) to act as an umpire in a game.umpire
English
(wikipedia umpire)Noun
(en noun)- The umpire called the pitch a strike.
- The umpire must keep on his toes as the play often occurs around him.
Usage notes
* In general, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.Verb
(umpir)- Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.
Synonyms
* refereepundit
English
(wikipedia pundit)Alternative forms
* panditNoun
(en noun)- Pundits in black gowns, with spectacles on their noses and undigested wisdom in their insides; bearded headmen of the wards; [...] all these people and more also you might find in the white room.
- At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces.
- This week we introduce Jenny Walker, who will be The Observer's expert pundit for the duration of the World Cup.