English > judge: 7 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice. |
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| Synonyms | justice, jurist |
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| Instances | Samson | (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean / herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah |
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| Narrower | Daniel | A wise / wise and upright judge |
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| alcalde | A mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town |
| chief justice | The judge who presides over a supreme court |
| doge | formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa |
| justiciar, justiciary | formerly a high judicial officer |
| magistrate | A lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses) |
| ordinary | A judge of a probate court |
| praetor, pretor | An annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republic |
| qadi | An Islamic judge |
| recorder | A barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs |
| trial judge | A judge in a trial court |
| trier | One (as a judge) who examines and settles a case |
| Broader | adjudicator | A person who studies and settles conflicts / conflicts and disputes |
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| official, functionary | A worker who holds or is invested with an office |
| Spanish | árbitro, jueza, juez, magistrado, togado |
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| Catalan | justícia, jutge, magistrat, togat |
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| Adjectives | judicial | relating to the administration of justice or the function of a judge |
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| judicial | belonging or appropriate to the office of a judge |
| judicial | decreed / decreed by or proceeding from a court of justice |
| Nouns | judgeship | the position of judge |
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| Verbs | adjudicate | bring to an end |
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| judge, adjudicate | put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of |
English > judge: 7 senses > verb 2, cognition| Meaning | form a critical opinion of. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something Adjective/Noun; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Example | "I cannot judge some works of modern art" |
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| Synonyms | evaluate, pass judgment |
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| Entailed by | acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate | pronounce not guilty of criminal charges |
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| condemn | declare or judge unfit for use or habitation |
| convict | Find or declare guilty |
| knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart | find fault with |
| Narrower | accept | Consider or hold as true |
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| approve | judge to be right or commendable |
| assign, attribute | decide as to where something belongs in a scheme |
| calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast | judge to be probable |
| choose | See fit or proper to act in a certain way |
| declare, adjudge, hold | declare to be |
| disapprove | Consider bad / bad or wrong |
| disapprove, reject | deem wrong or inappropriate |
| expect, anticipate | regard something as probable or likely |
| fail | judge unacceptable |
| impute, ascribe, assign, attribute | Attribute or credit to |
| measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value | Evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of |
| pass | Accept or judge as acceptable |
| prejudge | judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence |
| rate, rank, range, order, grade, place | Assign a rank or rating to |
| reappraise | Appraise anew |
| reject | refuse to accept or acknowledge |
| review, critique | Appraise critically |
| stand | Have or maintain a position or stand on an issue |
| test, prove, try, try out, examine, essay | put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to |
| think, believe, consider, conceive | judge or regard |
| Broader | think, cogitate, cerebrate | Use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments |
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| Spanish | evaluar, juzgar, opinar, pensar |
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| Catalan | avaluar, jutjar, opinar, pensar |
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| Nouns | judge | an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality |
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| judging | the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions |
| judgment | the act of judging / judging / judging or assessing a person or situation or event |
English > judge: 7 senses > verb 3, cognition| Meaning | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time). |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s PP; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Synonyms | estimate, gauge, approximate, guess |
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| Entailed by | punish, penalize, penalise | impose a penalty on |
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| Narrower | assess | Estimate the value of (property) for taxation |
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| give | Estimate the duration or outcome / outcome of something |
| guesstimate | Estimate based on a calculation |
| lowball, underestimate | make a deliberately low estimate |
| make | calculate as being |
| misgauge | gauge something incorrectly or improperly |
| place, put, set | Estimate |
| quantize, quantise | Approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values |
| reckon, count | take account of |
| truncate | Approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one |
| Broader | calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure | make a mathematical calculation or computation |
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| Spanish | calcular, echar, estimar, tasar |
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| Catalan | apreciar, calcular, taxar |
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| Nouns | judge | an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality |
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| judgment, judging | the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions |
