different between curator vs selector

English

Alternative forms

• curatour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin c?r?tor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from c?r?re (“to take care of”), from c?ra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).

Noun

curator (plural curators)

1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• custodian
• keeper
• manager
• overseer

Further reading

• curator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• curator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?r?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ky?ra?.t?r/
• Hyphenation: cu?ra?tor

Noun

curator m (plural curatoren, diminutive curatortje n)

1. curator, one who manages a collection
2. curator, one who manages an estate
3. liquidator appointed by a judge after bankruptcy

Derived terms

• curatorium

Latin

Alternative forms

• coer?tor

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku??ra?.tor/, [ku???ä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?ra.tor/, [ku????t??r]

Etymology 1

From c?r? +? -tor.

Noun

c?r?tor m (genitive c?r?t?ris); third declension

1. who pays heed about the state of an object, warden, overseer, watchman, lookout
2. who procures an affair for somebody, agent, commissionary
3. specifically, who procures patrimonial matters of one who has been deemed incapable to procure them himself
4. (New Latin, Germany) the regulatory supervisor over a university

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

c?r?tor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of c?r?

References

• curator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• curator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• curator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• curator in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• curator in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From French curateur, from Latin curator.

Noun

curator m (plural curatori)

1. curator

Declension

English

Etymology

select +? -or

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt?(?)

Noun

selector (plural selectors)

1. Someone or something which selects or chooses.
   • 1949, Billboard (volume 61, number 34, page 97)

     There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type.

2. (cricket) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side.
3. (computing) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style.
   • 2007, Craig Cook, David Schultz, Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, Apress (?ISBN), page 28:

     The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many.

   • 2009, Dino Esposito, Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, Microsoft Press (?ISBN), page 140:

     The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query.

4. (computing) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.
   • 1990, Byte (volume 15, issues 11-13, page 256)

     Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory.

   • 1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set (page 235)

     You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS.

5. (Internet, historical) A text string transmitted to a Gopher server, identifying the resource to be retrieved.

   Coordinate term: URL

   • 1996, Kenneth H. Rosen, UNIX System V, Release 4: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, page 438:

     Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed.

6. (music) A disc jockey.
   • 2011, Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies, A&C Black (?ISBN), page 125:

     This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when the selector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next?

Derived terms

• selectorial
• uniselector

Translations

Anagrams

• Electors, corelets, corselet, electors, electros

Romanian

Etymology

From French sélecteur.

Noun

selector n (plural selectoare)

1. selector

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sele??to?/, [se.le???t?o?]

Adjective

selector (feminine selectora, masculine plural selectores, feminine plural selectoras)

1. selecting

Noun

selector m (plural selectores)

1. selector