different between decider vs arbiter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??sa?d?(?)/
• Rhymes: -a?d?(?)

Etymology

decide +? -er

Noun

decider (plural deciders)

1. (of a controversy, question, etc) A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
   • 1667, anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:

     This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.

   • 1758, Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey, Philadelphia, p. 680:

     The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.

   • 1885, Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica, vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:

     The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider" (Entschneider).

   • 1967, David P. Gauthier, "How Decisions are Caused," The Journal of Philosophy, vol 64 no 5, 15 Mar, p. 151:

     Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.

   • 2006 April 18, George W. Bush, White House press conference, Washington, DC:

     "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best."

2. (chiefly Britain, Australia, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
   • 2007 Feb 22 (action), Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic Guardian Sport:

     . . . when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider.

   • 2007 Feb. 10 (event), France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice, Guardian Sport:

     France will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool.

3. (computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.

Synonyms

• decisor
• decisionmaker

References

• decider at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cidered, decried

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.tsi?der/

Verb

decider

1. to decide

Conjugation

English

Etymology

From Old French arbitre, from Latin arbiter (“a witness, judge, literally one who goes to see”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation): IPA^(key): /???b?t?(?)/

Noun

arbiter (plural arbiters)

1. A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
   • 1931, William Bennett Munro, The government of the United States, national, state, and local, page 495

     In order to protect individual liberty there must be an arbiter between the governing powers and the governed.

2. (with of) A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.

   Television and film, not Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.

3. (electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.

Related terms

Translations

Verb

arbiter (third-person singular simple present arbiters, present participle arbitering, simple past and past participle arbitered)

1. (transitive) To act as arbiter.
   • 2003, Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why We Love France But Not the French, page 116

     Worse, since there was no institution to arbiter disagreements between Parliament and the government, whenever Parliament voted against the government on the smallest issues, coalitions fragmented, and governments had to be recomposed.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rarebit

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably cognate to Umbrian a?putrati (“according to the judgement”, abl.sg.), corresponding to Latin arbitr?t?. Possibly from ad- + baet?, with sporadic d > r as in arvorsum, arfuise, thus originally meaning "one that goes to something in order to see or hear it". However, that verb has no certain etymology, and the Umbrian pu remains unexplained. De Vaan suggests a derivation from put? to explain the Umbrian pu, however that is still morphologically difficult since the latter is based on an adjective. The voiced b would have to be exceptional or explained by some peculiarity of the ?p sequence in Umbrian.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bi.ter/, [?ärb?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bi.ter/, [??rbit??r]

Noun

arbiter m (genitive arbitr?); second declension

1. witness, spectator, onlooker
2. (law) arbitrator, arbiter (having a wider power than a i?dex)
   1. (transferred sense) judge, umpire
3. overseer, controller, ruler

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Related terms

• arbitr?tus
• arbitrium, arbiterium
• arbitror

Descendants

References

• “arbiter” on page 175 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “arbiter”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 50

Further reading

• arbiter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arbiter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbiter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• arbiter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbiter in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

From Latin arbiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?b?i.t?r/

Noun

arbiter m pers

1. (law) arbiter (person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them)
2. authority (person)

   Synonym: autorytet

3. (sports) referee (umpire, judge of a game)

   Synonym: s?dzia

Declension

Related terms

• (verb) arbitra?owa?
• (nouns) arbitralno??, arbitra?
• (adjectives) arbitralny, arbitra?owy
• (adverb) arbitralnie

Further reading

• arbiter in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• arbiter in Polish dictionaries at PWN