different between supervisor vs warden

English

Alternative forms

• supervisour (obsolete)

Etymology

Attested since the 15th century C.E.; from Latin supervisor, from supervide?, in turn from Latin super + Latin vide?.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: so?op??rv?z'?r, IPA^(key): /?su?p??va?z?/

Noun

supervisor (plural supervisors)

1. (management) A person with the official task of overseeing the work of a person or group, or of other operations and activities.
2. A person who monitors someone to make sure they comply with rules or other requirements set for them.
3. (US) In certain states, an elected member of the governing body for a county which is called the board of supervisors.
4. (computing) A process responsible for managing other processes.
   • 1965, P. A. Crisman, The compatible time-sharing system: a programmer's guide (page 14)

     The clock burst which enables the supervisor to housekeep the console input and output and to change program status is currently set to 200 ms.

Related terms

• supervise
• supervision
• supervisory

Translations

See also

• manager
• on-call supervisor
• superintendent

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “supervisor”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• proviruses

Catalan

Noun

supervisor m (plural supervisors, feminine supervisora)

1. supervisor

Related terms

• supervisar
• supervisió

Further reading

• “supervisor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “supervisor” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “supervisor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Portuguese

Etymology

super- +? visor

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sup??vi?zo?/

Noun

supervisor m (plural supervisores)

1. (management) supervisor

See also

• gerente
• administrador
• capataz
• chefe
• controlador
• feitor
• organizador
• superintendente

Spanish

Noun

supervisor m (plural supervisores, feminine supervisora, feminine plural supervisoras)

1. supervisor
2. handler (e.g, a secret agent's handler)

Related terms

• supervisar
• supervisión

Further reading

• “supervisor” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, Old Northern French wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wart?n (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??d?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w??d?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?n

Noun

warden (plural wardens)

1. (archaic or literary) A guard or watchman.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, 4th American edition, Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1823, Volume 2, Chapter 4,^[1]

     He called to the wardens on the outside battlements. [The original (UK) editions read warders rather than wardens.]

2. A chief administrative officer of a prison.
   • 1934, Nathanael West, A Cool Million, Chapter 7,^[2]

     The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […]

3. An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden
4. A governing official in various institutions

   the warden of a college

5. A variety of pear.
   • c. 1608, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Cupid’s Revenge, Act II, Scene 1,^[3]

     Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a brown Paper, and no more talk on’t:

   • c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,^[4]

     I must have saffron to colour the warden pies;

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Gardens” in Essays, London: Hanna Barret, p. 269,^[5]

     In September, come Grapes; Apples; Poppies of all colours; Peaches; Melo-Cotones; Nectarines; Cornelians; Wardens; Quinces.

   • 1903, E. Bartrum, The Book of Pears and Plums, London: John Lane, p. 30,^[6]

     Wardens, a name given to pears which never melt, are long keeping, and used for cooking only. The name comes from the Cistercian Abbey of Warden in Beds. Parkinson’s Warden is now Black Worcester. There are Spanish, White and Red Wardens.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

warden (third-person singular simple present wardens, present participle wardening, simple past and past participle wardened)

1. To carry out the duties of a warden.

See also

• Warden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Warden in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Andrew, Darwen, Wander, drawne, wander, warned