sensor vs censor vs censure
Definitions
noun
- any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
Examples
She is "not a medium", we are told, but rather "a supersensory explorer who has been trained in the cosmic language of symbols for more than 20 years.
The outside activity is monitored through a battery-operated thermo sensor, which can be placed 30m away from the main unit.
They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the “herd. †The “herd†consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke.
Definitions
noun
- a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
- someone who censures or condemns
verb
- forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
- subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
Examples
During this period, the Ontario Board of Censors was known to be the most liberal of all the provincial boards, and O.J. Silverthorne was the most respected film censor in Canada.
In these two cases, the UK is exactly equidistant from the tolerance of France and the censoriousness of the US.
The current documents are the same, but now uncensored.
Definitions
noun
- the state of being excommunicated
- harsh criticism or disapproval
verb
- rebuke formally
Examples
That which is soft and effeminate, which is calculated to excite the passions, by multitudes of ambiguous expressions, (not the less dangerous for being so cloaked) should be considered by Christians as an abuse the more deplorable, as it has even been censured and condemned by the pagans.
The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure.
Show no public censure for your dying elephant, either.
