judge

(noun, verb)

noun

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

Similar word(s): jurist, justice

Definition categories: person, adjudicator, functionary, official

2. an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

Similar word(s): evaluator

Definition categories: person, authority

Sentences with judge as a noun:

- At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.

- He is a good judge of wine.

verb

1. determine the result of (a competition)

Definition categories: cognition, adjudicate, decide, resolve, settle

2. form a critical opinion of

- I cannot judge some works of modern art

Similar word(s): evaluate

Definition categories: cognition, cerebrate, cogitate, think

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

Similar word(s): overestimate, underestimate, approximate, estimate, gauge, guess

Definition categories: cognition, calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, figure, reckon

4. pronounce judgment on

Similar word(s): label, pronounce

Definition categories: communication, adjudge, declare, hold

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

- The judge tried both father and son in separate trials

Similar word(s): adjudicate, try

Definition categories: social, decide, determine

Sentences with judge as a verb:

- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.

- Justices in this country judge without appeal.

- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.

- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.

- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.

- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.