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censor or censure or sensor or censer

To censor somebody’s speech or writing is to try to suppress it by preventing it from reaching the public. When guests on network TV utter obscenities, broadcasters practice censorship by bleeping them.To censure someone, however, is to officially denounce an offender. You can be censured as much for actions as for words. A lawyer who destroyed evidence which would have been unfavorable to his client might be censured by the bar association.A device which senses any change like changes in light or electrical output is a sensor. Your car and your digital camera contain sensors.A censer is a church incense burner.

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Definitions
  censor
  • n  someone who censures or condemns
  • n  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
  • v  forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
  • v  subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
    This magazine is censored by the government
  censure
  • n  harsh criticism or disapproval
  • n  the state of being excommunicated
  • v  rebuke formally
  sensor
  • n  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
  censer
  • n  a container for burning incense (especially one that is swung on a chain in a religious ritual)
News & Articles
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  • Michael Schulman: Pedro Almodóvar’s New York.
    Pedro Almodóvar emerged from the Peninsula Hotel and stood beneath an overcast sky. The afternoon rain had let up, and the director, looking like an haut-punk Teddy bear, in a Riccardo Tisci T-shirt showing a naked woman with a censor bar over her breasts, had spent . . . (Subscription required.)
    June 17, 2013 - The New Yorker
  • Edward Snowden, NSA Whistle-Blower, Wins Unusual Sympathizers in Latin America
    Ecuador is no human-rights darling. Left-wing President Rafael Correa has built a decidedly authoritarian reputation that includes a yen for prosecuting journalists who irk him. This week he won passage of a media bill that slashes the number of private outlets, greatly increases state-controlled broadcasting and makes Correa the nation’s de facto media censor.
    June 16, 2013 - Time.com via Yahoo! News
  • China Censor Winnie The Pooh Picture
    Winnie the Pooh has become the latest target for Chinese censors thanks to an uncanny resemblance between a picture of President Barack Obama and Chinese president Xi Jinping walking together like Winnie and Tigger. The photograph, taken at California’s recent summit, simply captured the two presidents walking side by side through Sunnylands estate; however, it... Read more » China Censor Winnie ...
    June 15, 2013 - The Inquisitr
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  • Move to censure DeWitt County state’s attorney, assistant fails
    CLINTON — A DeWitt County Board resolution to censure State’s Attorney Karle Koritz and assistant Lars Dunn died Thursday due to a lack of a second in a board meeting packed with onlookers at the county building in Clinton.
    June 21, 2013 - The Pantagraph
  • Waxhaw mayor faces talk of censure, August court date on DWI charge
    Waxhaw town commissioners may censure Mayor Daune Gardner following her arrest this month on a driving while impaired charge, where Union County court records show her blood-alcohol content level was 0.18., more than twice the legal limit.
    June 19, 2013 - The Charlotte Observer
  • AAUP removes St. Bonaventure from censure list
    AAUP removes St. Bonaventure from censure list OLEAN, N.Y. (AP) — An academic organization has removed St. Bonaventure University from its censure list after 17 years. The American Association of University Professors had put the university in New York's Southern Tier on the list following the termination of 18 tenured professors for financial reasons beginning in 1993. In a statement Tuesday ...
    June 19, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
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  • New ‘Electronic Nose’ Nano-Sensor Being Developed for Food Safety, Health
    RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The “electronic nose” sensor developed by a University of California, Riverside engineering professor, and being commercialized by Innovation Economy Crowd (ieCrowd), will be further refined to detect deadly pathogens including toxic pesticides in the global food supply chain, according to a recently signed product development and distribution agreement.
    June 15, 2013 - Highland Community News
  • Sensor Variability Helps Build a Better E-Nose
    Thirty-two-sensor array reliably sniffs out differences between apples and pears
    June 14, 2013 - IEEE Spectrum
  • Flexible plastic camera sensor headed to smartphones, wearables and more
    Bendable cameras and sensors that can flex around corners could be on the horizon, with the first flexible image sensor built on plastic being developed by Plastic Logic and ISORG. The 40 x 40 mm sensor uses a flexible, transmissive backplane created by Plastic Logic, on top of which ISORG layers an organic photodetector material Read The Full Story
    June 13, 2013 - SlashGear
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    Nick Anderson, Lori Aratani, Mark Berman, Aaron Blake, Michelle Boorstein, DeNeen L. Brown, Lynh Bui, Marjorie Censer, Alice Crites, Aaron C. Davis, Mike DeBonis, Paul Farhi, Maggie Fazeli Fard, Peter Finn, Mary Pat Flaherty, Matea Gold, Hamil R. Harris, Tom Hamburger, Dana Hedgpeth, Tom Jackman, Jennifer Jenkins, Jenna Johnson, Justin Jouvenal, Paul Kane, Fredrick Kunkle, Carol D. Leonnig ...
    Sept. 17, 2013 - Washington Post