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   censor

   /ˈsɛnsə/

   noun

   • 1. an official who examines books, films, news, etc. that are about to be published and suppresses any parts that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security: "the report was approved by the military censors"
   • ▪ an aspect of the superego which is said to prevent certain ideas and memories from emerging into consciousness.
   • 2. (in ancient Rome) either of two magistrates who held censuses and supervised public morals.

   verb

   • 1. examine (a book, film, etc.) officially and suppress unacceptable parts of it: "the report had been censored ‘in the national interest’"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in censor (sense 2 of the noun)): from Latin, from censere ‘assess’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. censorial adjective

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   What is censored in one context?

   • What is censored in one context, however, will be spoken in another. Some episodes in recent history are too uncomfortable to be admitted, so they are censored out. Art exhibitions continued to be censored and exhibitions of non-conformist art were frequently closed.

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   What does censoring mean?

   • Censoring: We do not know the time exactly (i.e., the exact survival or experienced time of an event). Specifically, in most observational prospective studies, a censoring occurs although we know an individual’s follow-up time, we are not aware of the survival time exactly.

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   When were people censored?

   • Persons in the early cohort were censored in 1979. In the latter methods, both uncensored and censored data were included. For these cases, the value of the dependent variable is unknown, or 'censored'. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

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   Is religion censored?

   • Censors include automatic filters that block posts containing sensitive keywords. Religion sometimes plays the role of censor to the urgings of our subconscious. You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: The book was heavily censored when first published. Is it possible to censor the internet?

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   Censored means to prevent something from being seen or made available to the public, often for political or moral reasons. Learn how to use this word in different contexts and see examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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   Learn the meaning of censored as an adjective that describes something suppressed, altered, or deleted as objectionable. See examples of censored in sentences, word history, synonyms, and related articles.

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   Learn the meaning of censor as a noun and a verb, and see how it is used in different contexts. Find out the synonyms, antonyms, and related words for censor in English.

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   Learn the meaning of censor as a noun and a verb, with synonyms, examples, and word history. A censor is someone who examines and deletes objectionable material, or a hypothetical psychic agency that represses unacceptable notions.

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   noun. an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.

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   A censor takes out things that are objectionable or inappropriate, like the censors at the TV networks bleeping out all the bad words in a show. To put it simply, a censor judges. Originating in the 1530’s, a censor was originally a Roman magistrate who took censuses and oversaw public morals.

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   A censor is a person who has been officially appointed to examine letters or the media and to cut out any parts that are regarded as secret.