different between critic vs umpire

English

Alternative forms

• critick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from ????? (krín?, “I judge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?k??t.?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Noun

critic (plural critics)

1. A person who appraises the works of others.
2. A specialist in judging works of art.
3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

   • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.

4. An opponent.
5. Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism)
6. Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550

     And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.

Derived terms

• armchair critic
• criticess

Related terms

Translations

Verb

critic (third-person singular simple present critics, present participle criticking, simple past and past participle criticked)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
   • 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority

     Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Anagrams

• citric

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English critique, from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c???t??c/

Noun

critic f (genitive singular critice, nominative plural criticí)

1. critique

   Synonym: beachtaíocht

2. criticism

   Synonym: criticeas, léirmheastóireacht

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "critic" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “critic” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Ladin

Adjective

critic m pl

1. masculine plural of critich

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French critique and Latin criticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.tik/

Noun

critic m (plural critici)

1. critic

Adjective

critic m or n (feminine singular critic?, masculine plural critici, feminine and neuter plural critice)

1. critical

Declension

English

Etymology

From a Middle English rebracketing of noumpere, from Old French nonper (“odd number, not even (as a tie-breaking arbitrator)”), from non (“not”) + per (“equal”), from Latin par (“equal”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??m.pa?.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Noun

umpire (plural umpires)

1. (tennis, badminton) The official who presides over a tennis game sat on a high chair.
2. (cricket) One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
3. (baseball) One of usually 4 officials who preside over a baseball game.

4. (American football) The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side.

5. (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.
6. (law) A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
7. (curling) The official who presides over a curling game.

Coordinate terms

• referee

Usage notes

• In general, and as a usage guideline, a referee moves around with the game, while an umpire stays (approximately) in one place.

Translations

Verb

umpire (third-person singular simple present umpires, present participle umpiring, simple past and past participle umpired)

1. (sports, intransitive) To act as an umpire in a game.

   Coordinate term: referee

2. (transitive) To decide as an umpire.

   Synonyms: arbitrate, settle

   • Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies.

Translations

See also

• Category:English rebracketings.

Further reading

• referee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• umpire (cricket) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• umpire (baseball) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• impure, rumpie

Spanish

Noun

umpire m (plural umpires)

1. umpire