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| judge [ juj ] |
noun (plural judg·es) |
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1. law a senior official in court of law: a high-ranking court officer, formerly a lawyer, who supervises court trials, instructs juries, and pronounces sentence
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2. adjudicator: a person, sometimes one of several, appointed to assess entries or performances in a competition and decide who wins
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3. somebody giving informed opinion: somebody who can give an informed opinion on something
  a good judge of character
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4. Jewish warrior leader: in Jewish history, any of a succession of warrior leaders who each temporarily held supreme power in Israel between Joshua's death and Saul's succession
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verb (past and past participle judged, present participle judg·ing, 3rd person present singular judg·es) |
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1. transitive verb decide legal case: to act as the judge of a legal case
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2. transitive and intransitive verb be judge in contest: to act as a judge in a competition or, as an adjudicator, pronounce officially on the entries
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3. transitive and intransitive verb assess: to assess the quality of something or estimate probabilities
Each proposal has to be judged on its own merits.
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4. transitive verb form opinion of somebody or something: to form an opinion of somebody or something, especially after thought or consideration
She was judged to have the best qualifications.
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5. transitive and intransitive verb estimate: to measure by guesswork, using the eye or some other sense as a rough guide
You can't always judge people's ages by their voices.
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6. transitive verb condemn somebody: to criticize or condemn somebody on moral grounds
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| [12th century. Via Old French juge< Latin judex "somebody who speaks the law" < jus "law, right"] |
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| judg·er noun |
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