censor

1. A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
2. An official, as in the armed forces, who examines personal mail and official dispatches to remove information considered secret or a risk to security.
3. One that condemns or censures.
4. One of two officials in ancient Rome responsible for taking the public census and supervising public behavior and morals.
5. Psychology. The agent in the unconscious that is responsible for censorship.

To examine and expurgate.

[Latin cēnsor, Roman censor, from cēnsēre, to assess.]

verb

1. To examine (material) and remove parts considered harmful or improper for publication or transmission: bowdlerize, expurgate, screen. See include/exclude, show/hide.
2. To keep from being published or transmitted: ban, black out, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idioms: keep/put a lid on. See show/hide.

Definition: forbid; ban
Antonyms: allow, approve, endorse, permit, sanction

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A member of a committee on ethics or for critical examination of a medical or other society.

Tutor's tip: A "censer" is an incense burner, a "censor" is a person who suppresses ideas or materials, to "censure" is to blame or disapprove, while a "sensor" is a device that detects automatically.

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Censor may refer to:

• Censorship, the control of speech and other forms of human expression
• Roman censor, a magistrate for maintaining the census, supervising public morality, etc.
• Cato Censor (Marcus Porcius Cato, 234BCE–149BCE), Roman statesman
• Censor Librorum, a Church official who approves and, if necessary, removes material from texts for publication
• Censor (imperial China), standard translation of Chinese 御史 (yushi) - a government official whose duties involved criticizing other officials
• Censoring (statistics), the situation when the value of an observation is only partially known
• Censor (film), a 2001 film written and directed by Dev Anand
• "Censor" (song), a single released by the band Skinny Puppy for the song "Dogshit" in 1988
• Censor (Christ Church, Oxford), the Student of Christ Church, Oxford undertaking disciplinary duties assigned to deans of other colleges
• Censor (Royal College of Physicians), the Royal College of Physicians' police

See also

• Sensor, a device or organ that detects or senses a signal or its environment
• Censure, a formal reprimand
• Censer, a small metal or stone dish used for burning incense

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Common misspelling(s) of censor

• censur

Dansk (Danish)
n. - censor, tilsynsførende
v. tr. - censurere, forbyde

Nederlands (Dutch)
censor, censureren, schrappen

Français (French)
n. - censeur
v. tr. - censurer

Deutsch (German)
n. - Zensor, Zensur
v. - zensieren, abändern

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λογοκριτής
v. - λογοκρίνω

Italiano (Italian)
censurare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - censor (m)
v. - censurar

Русский (Russian)
подвергать цензуре, цензор

Español (Spanish)
n. - censor
v. tr. - censurar, tachar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - censor, kritiker, censur (psyk.)
v. - censurera, stryka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
检查员, 检查, 审查

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 檢查員
v. tr. - 檢查, 審查

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 검열관, 비평자
v. tr. - 검열하다, 검열하여 삭제하다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 検閲官, 監察官, 検閲作用
v. - 検閲する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) رقيب, مراقب (فعل) راقب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮צנזור, דחף המונע מרעיונות ומזכרונות מסוימים לחדור להכרה‬
v. tr. - ‮ביקר, צנזר, בדק, השמיט‬

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