judge
See also: Judge
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- judg (obsolete)
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English juge, jugge, borrowed from Old French juge, from Latin iūdex. Displaced native Old English dēma.
NounEdit
judge (plural judges)
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event or similar.
- At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
- She is a good judge of wine.
- They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.
SynonymsEdit
- (one who judges in an official capacity): magistrate (now usually of low rank); justice (now usually of high rank); justiciar, justiciary (historic, of high rank); Chief Justice, Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciary, Chief Justiciary, justiciar, justiciary (of the highest rank); justicer (obsolete); sheriff, bailiff, reeve (historic or obsolete)
- (one who judges generally): deemer, deemster
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Assamese: জজ (zoz)
- → Bengali: জজ (jôj)
- → Hindustani:
- → Oriya: ଜଜ୍ (jôj)
- → Tamil: ஜட்ஜி (jaṭji)
- → Telugu: జడ్జ (jaḍja)
TranslationsEdit
public judicial official
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someone deciding another's fate
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sports official
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someone with valued opinions
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin iūdicāre.
Mostly displaced native deem.
VerbEdit
judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- Justices in this country judge without appeal.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
- c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:
- Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
- (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 8, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
- (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
- There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.
- There's meltdown in the sky.
- If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,
- Mister, you're a better man than I
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of judge
infinitive | judge | ||||||||||
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present participle | judging | ||||||||||
past participle | judged | ||||||||||
simple | progressive | perfect | perfect progressive | ||||||||
present | I judge | we judge | I am judging | we are judging | I have judged | we have judged | I have been judging | we have been judging | |||
you judge | you judge | you are judging | you are judging | you have judged | you have judged | you have been judging | you have been judging | ||||
he judges | they judge | he is judging | they are judging | he has judged | they have judged | he has been judging | they have been judging | ||||
past | I judged | we judged | I was judging | we were judging | I had judged | we had judged | I had been judging | we had been judging | |||
you judged | you judged | you were judging | you were judging | you had judged | you had judged | you had been judging | you had been judging | ||||
he judged | they judged | he was judging | they were judging | he had judged | they had judged | he had been judging | they had been judging | ||||
future | I will judge | we will judge | I will be judging | we will be judging | I will have judged | we will have judged | I will have been judging | we will have been judging | |||
you will judge | you will judge | you will be judging | you will be judging | you will have judged | you will have judged | you will have been judging | you will have been judging | ||||
he will judge | they will judge | he will be judging | they will be judging | he will have judged | they will have judged | he will have been judging | they will have been judging | ||||
conditional | I would judge | we would judge | I would be judging | we would be judging | I would have judged | we would have judged | I would have been judging | we would have been judging | |||
you would judge | you would judge | you would be judging | you would be judging | you would have judged | you would have judged | you would have been judging | you would have been judging | ||||
he would judge | they would judge | he would be judging | they would be judging | he would have judged | they would have judged | he would have been judging | they would have been judging | ||||
imperative | judge |
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to sit in judgment on, pass sentence on
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to sit in judgment on, act as judge
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to form an opinion on
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to arbitrate, to pass opinion on something
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to have as an opinion, consider, suppose
to form an opinion, infer
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to criticize or label another person or thing
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