| judge | | |
| n. (person) | 1. judge, jurist, justice | a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice. |
| ~ adjudicator | a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes. |
| ~ alcalde | a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish town. |
| ~ chief justice | the judge who presides over a supreme court. |
| ~ daniel | a wise and upright judge.; "a Daniel come to judgment" |
| ~ 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). |
| ~ functionary, official | a worker who holds or is invested with an office. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ samson | (Old Testament) a judge of Israel who performed herculean feats of strength against the Philistines until he was betrayed to them by his mistress Delilah. |
| n. (person) | 2. evaluator, judge | an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality. |
| ~ appraiser, valuator | one who estimates officially the worth or value or quality of things. |
| ~ arbitrator, arbiter, umpire | someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue.; "the critic was considered to be an arbiter of modern literature"; "the arbitrator's authority derived from the consent of the disputants"; "an umpire was appointed to settle the tax case" |
| ~ authority | an expert whose views are taken as definitive.; "he is an authority on corporate law" |
| ~ critic | anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. judge | determine the result of (a competition). |
| ~ resolve, adjudicate, decide, settle | bring to an end; settle conclusively.; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" |
| ~ referee, umpire | be a referee or umpire in a sports competition. |
| v. (cognition) | 4. evaluate, judge, pass judgment | form a critical opinion of.; "I cannot judge some works of modern art"; "How do you evaluate this grant proposal?"; "We shouldn't pass judgment on other people" |
| ~ cerebrate, cogitate, think | use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments.; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" |
| ~ grade, rate, rank, place, range, order | assign a rank or rating to.; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide" |
| ~ stand | have or maintain a position or stand on an issue.; "Where do you stand on the War?" |
| ~ approve | judge to be right or commendable; think well of. |
| ~ disapprove | consider bad or wrong. |
| ~ choose | see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way.; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam" |
| ~ prejudge | judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence. |
| ~ appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, measure, value | evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of.; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional"; "access all the factors when taking a risk" |
| ~ reappraise | appraise anew.; "Homes in our town are reappraised every five years and taxes are increased accordingly" |
| ~ reject | refuse to accept or acknowledge.; "I reject the idea of starting a war"; "The journal rejected the student's paper" |
| ~ accept | consider or hold as true.; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" |
| ~ think, believe, conceive, consider | judge or regard; look upon; judge.; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" |
| ~ count on, figure, calculate, estimate, forecast, reckon | judge to be probable. |
| ~ anticipate, expect | regard something as probable or likely.; "The meteorologists are expecting rain for tomorrow" |
| ~ ascribe, attribute, impute, assign | attribute or credit to.; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" |
| ~ attribute, assign | decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" |
| ~ disapprove, reject | deem wrong or inappropriate.; "I disapprove of her child rearing methods" |
| ~ adjudge, declare, hold | declare to be.; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent" |
| ~ critique, review | appraise critically.; "She reviews books for the New York Times"; "Please critique this performance" |
| ~ fail | judge unacceptable.; "The teacher failed six students" |
| ~ pass | accept or judge as acceptable.; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak" |
| ~ test, try out, essay, try, examine, prove | put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to.; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "Test this recipe" |
| v. (cognition) | 5. approximate, estimate, gauge, guess, judge | judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time).; "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" |
| ~ calculate, compute, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out | make a mathematical calculation or computation. |
| ~ quantise, quantize | approximate (a signal varying continuously in amplitude) by one whose amplitude is restricted to a prescribed set of discrete values. |
| ~ misgauge | gauge something incorrectly or improperly. |
| ~ put, place, set | estimate.; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." |
| ~ give | estimate the duration or outcome of something.; "He gave the patient three months to live"; "I gave him a very good chance at success" |
| ~ lowball, underestimate | make a deliberately low estimate.; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed" |
| ~ assess | estimate the value of (property) for taxation.; "Our house hasn't been assessed in years" |
| ~ make | calculate as being.; "I make the height about 100 feet" |
| ~ reckon, count | take account of.; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" |
| ~ truncate | approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one.; "truncate a series" |
| ~ guesstimate | estimate based on a calculation. |
| v. (communication) | 6. judge, label, pronounce | pronounce judgment on.; "They labeled him unfit to work here" |
| ~ adjudge, declare, hold | declare to be.; "She was declared incompetent"; "judge held that the defendant was innocent" |
| ~ acquit, assoil, exculpate, exonerate, discharge, clear | pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges" |
| ~ convict | find or declare guilty.; "The man was convicted of fraud and sentenced" |
| ~ tout | advertize in strongly positive terms.; "This product was touted as a revolutionary invention" |
| ~ rule, find | decide on and make a declaration about.; "find someone guilty" |
| ~ qualify | pronounce fit or able.; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" |
| ~ disqualify | declare unfit.; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete" |
| ~ intonate, intone | speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone.; "please intonate with sadness" |
| v. (social) | 7. adjudicate, judge, try | 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" |
| ~ decide, make up one's mind, determine | reach, make, or come to a decision about something.; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" |
| ~ court-martial | subject to trial by court-martial. |
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