judge

Definitions

1. 1intransitive verb

   A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.

2. 2intransitive verb

   One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.

3. 3intransitive verb

   A person appointed to decide in a/trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.

4. 4intransitive verb

   One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

5. 5intransitive verb

   The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

6. 6adjective

   To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.

7. 7adjective

   To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge. t., 3.

8. 8transitive verb

   To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.

9. 9transitive verb

   To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.

10. 10transitive verb

    To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.

11. 11transitive verb

    To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

12. 12transitive verb

    To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

13. 13transitive verb

    To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.

14. 14noun

    an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

    Synonyms

    evaluator
15. 15noun

    a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

    Synonyms

    juristjustice
16. 16verb

    form a critical opinion of "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people"

    "I cannot judge some works of modern art"

    "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"

    Synonyms

    evaluate
17. 17verb

    determine the result of (a competition)

18. 18verb

    judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)

    "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds"

    Synonyms

    approximateestimategaugeguess
19. 19verb

    pronounce judgment on

    "They labeled him unfit to work here"

    Synonyms

    labelpronounce
20. 20verb

    put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of

    "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"

    "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"

    Synonyms

    adjudicatetry