What's the difference between censor and redact?

Censor


Definition:

  • (n.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
  • (n.) One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.
  • (n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
  • (n.) A critic; a reviewer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
  • (2) Using the generalized Wilcoxon test for single censored samples, there was no significant difference in survival at any postoperative year when comparing both Groups A and B.
  • (3) In the NO MISO and PLUS MISO arms, the complete response rate at cystoscopy at 6 months was 63% and 69%, the 5-year survival rate was 41% and 48% and the 5-year local control rate with bladder preservation was 46% and 36% respectively (censored for death from metastases while locally clear).
  • (4) When conservative outlets accused the site of censoring right-leaning news stories , Zuckerberg fired the trending stories team and replaced them with an algorithm – which almost immediately began to distribute fake news .
  • (5) Thousands who have confronted the possibility of a libel action have self-censored or backed down.
  • (6) The results of this study suggest that GTFA is the preferred method for the genetic modeling of censored data obtained from twins.
  • (7) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
  • (8) Cameron told MPs: "We have a free press, it's very important the press feels it is not pre-censored from what it writes and all the rest of it.
  • (9) "And obviously, lyrics had to be approved by censors.
  • (10) Today the Turkish government has levelled baseless and alarmingly false charges of ‘working on behalf of a terrorist organisation’ against three Vice News reporters, in an attempt to intimidate and censor their coverage,” Sutcliffe said.
  • (11) It is essential that systems which allow censoring of patient records have continuous built-in audit to monitor the reasons for censoring.
  • (12) Inclusion of right censored lesions by the Kaplan-Meier approach increased the uncensored estimate by approximately 20%.
  • (13) For some calves known only was that absorption extended beyond duration of the experiment, causing the data to be censored.
  • (14) He said the need for realism, insisted on by censors, left "only the ancient Chinese stories to be produced".
  • (15) A brief survey is given of the historical roots of such methods, of the basic concepts and quantities which are required, and of the maximum likelihood estimates which can be derived for right censored and double censored data.
  • (16) Google moved quickly to announce that it would stop censoring its Chinese service after realising dissidents were at risk from attempts to use the company's technology for political surveillance, according to a source with direct knowledge of the internet giant's most senior management.
  • (17) She never censored my reading material and always encouraged my writing ambitions.
  • (18) Many fellow editors and reporters at RBC say they plan to resign too, while others have vowed to continue their work “until the first story is censored”.
  • (19) @Roborovski says the government's focus is wrong: Government focus on social messaging clamp-down wrong - 24 hour news channels played far greater role in spread of riots Commenter Porgythecat warns of the wider implications of such proposals: How long before Twitter or Facebook gets shut down during a major environmental protest, or worse, Twitter and Facebook start self censoring in order to avoid government regulation.
  • (20) We propose a design procedure for determining the study duration or for calculating the power in a group sequential clinical trial with censored survival data and possibly unequal patient allocation between treatments, adjusting for stratified randomization.

Redact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
  • (2) The minutes – which will be redacted – are expected to shed light on the thinking at the highest level of the Bank during the crisis, when Mervyn (now Lord) King was governor.
  • (3) Rudd told the commission in his statement – in a paragraph previously redacted – that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet produced "periodic reports" on the implementation of programs to the cabinet committee and then potentially to the whole of cabinet.
  • (4) According to the MDC source, whose name the Observer has redacted, "Kofi Annan, in the recent meeting in New York during the millennium summit offered Mugabe a deal to step down.
  • (5) The fact is that torture is employed routinely across the region – the reason why the CIA used facilities in Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Algeria – their names all redacted from the Senate document.
  • (6) Many will find it shocking that the redacted parts of the official version of MPs' expenses , released today, contain the very infomation that enabled the Telegraph to do its investigative work in the first place.
  • (7) The source for this information was a British security company boss, whose name has been redacted.
  • (8) still on track for a consultation to be triggered sometime next week See the email | See the text messages 15 Jun 2011 From [name redacted] DCMS lawyer: I fear I am not in a position to share an indicative target date with you Michel to Adam: She says she is not able to share it with us.
  • (9) Or are half these people too idle, not just to remove their own wasp nests, but to do their own redacting?
  • (10) The extraordinary debate late on Wednesday afternoon centred on the former prime minister's heavily redacted 31-page statement.
  • (11) Redactions to the minutes will be minimal, and confined to certain specific categories including for example the need to protect the security of the Bank and its staff, and to comply with legal requirements,” the Bank said last month.
  • (12) The political pressure had been mounting on the health regulator to reverse its decision to redact names from a damning report by the City consultants Grant Thornton after the information commissioner said the data protection act was no barrier to being transparent.
  • (13) Recently declassified and heavily redacted opinions of the special US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, known as the Fisa court , have not made clear to what extent law enforcement agencies have unmediated access to NSA databases.
  • (14) Garcia and several members of the Fifa executive committee have called for it to be published in full, with names redacted to protect whistleblowers, in order to help restore Fifa’s battered credibility.
  • (15) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
  • (16) Mobley appeared to be receiving excellent medical care in a state of the art facility,” reads the heavily redacted log , dated 30 January 2010.
  • (17) The reports were given to Phil Miller, a researcher for Corporate Watch, but vital information was redacted.
  • (18) In addition to Pantaleo’s testimony, the petitioning parties sought the release of the charges presented against the officer involved, the instructions given to the jurors, and the minutes, with certain information redacted.
  • (19) By integrating bulk data [redaction] with information about individual subjects of interest from other sources of intelligence (liaison relationships, agent reporting, intercept, eavesdropping, surveillance) and from ‘fusing’ different data-sets in order to identify common links, we can better understand target networks, locations and behaviours, enabling a greater depth and breadth of target coverage.
  • (20) But this section is also among those partly redacted by the home secretary.