different between umpire vs controller

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English countreroller, from Anglo-Norman contreroulour and Middle French contreroleur (French contrôleur), from Medieval Latin contr?rotul?tor, from *contr?rotul?re (from which control). Surface analysis control +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?t???l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?t?o?l?/
• Hyphenation: con?trol?ler
• Rhymes: -??l?(?)

Noun

controller (plural controllers)

1. One who controls something.
   • 1700, John Dryden (tr.), “The Wife of Bath, Her Tale”[1]:

     The great controller of our fate / Deigned to be man, and lived in low estate.

2. (electronics) Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
3. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
4. (computer hardware) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
5. (video games) A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.

   Synonym: game controller

6. (nautical) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
7. (espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
8. (linguistics) The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
   • 2004, Paul K. Kroeger, Analyzing Syntax: A Lexical-Functional Approach, Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN (hardback), ?ISBN (paperback), chapter 5.4, 117:

     The choice of controller is determined by the matrix verb. If, as in (30b) and (3la), the main verb does not subcategorize for an OBJ, then the controller is the matrix SUBJ. In this case the complement clause is interpreted as having the same subject as the main clause. If the main verb does take an OBJ, the controller is the matrix patient.

9. (software architecture) In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.

Synonyms

• (one who controls): administrator, chief, foreman, head, head man, organizer, overseer, superintendent, supervisor
• (one who manages financial affairs): comptroller
• (device that regulates a machine's operation): driver

Hyponyms

• (computing): fuzzy controller, memory controller
• (computing, electronics): game controller, microcontroller, nanocontroller
• (software architecture): model–view–controller

Derived terms

Related terms

• control theory

Translations

References

• controller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English controller.

Noun

controller c (singular definite controlleren, plural indefinite controllere or controllers)

1. (business) A person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government, a comptroller, a controller.
2. (computing) A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer, a controller.

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English controller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?n?tr?.l?r/
• Hyphenation: con?trol?ler
• Rhymes: -?l?r

Noun

controller m (plural controllers, diminutive controllertje n)

1. (video games) controller
2. (business) controller (a person who audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government)