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judge
English
Alternative forms
- judg (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- enPR: j?j, IPA(key): /d???d??/
- Rhymes: -?d?
Etymology 1
From Middle English juge, jugge, borrowed from Old French juge, from Latin i?dex. Displaced native Old English d?ma.
Noun
judge (plural judges)
- A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
- 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature
- A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
- A person officiating at a sports event or similar.
- A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
Synonyms
- (one who judges in an official capacity): magistrate (now usually of low rank); justice (now usually of high rank); justiciar, justiciary (historic, of high rank); Chief Justice, Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciary, Chief Justiciary, justiciar, justiciary (of the highest rank); justicer (obsolete); sheriff, bailiff, reeve (historic or obsolete); doomsman (obsolete)
- (one who judges generally): deemer, deemster
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Assamese: ?? (zoz)
- ? Bengali: ?? (jôj)
- ? Hindustani:
- Hindi: ?? (jaj)
- Urdu: ??? (jaj)
- ? Oriya: ??? (jôj)
- ? Tamil: ????? (ja?ji)
- ? Telugu: ???? (ja?ja)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin i?dic?re.
Mostly displaced native deem.
Verb
judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)
- (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
- (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
- (transitive) To form an opinion on.
- c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:
- Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.
- c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:
- (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
- (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
- (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
- (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
- There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.
- There's meltdown in the sky.
- If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,
- Mister, you're a better man than I
- 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge
Conjugation
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
- forejudge
- misjudge
- unjudge
- you can't judge a book by its cover
Translations
See also
- abjudge
- abjudicate
- adjudicate
- judgment
- judicator
- judicial
- judiciary
- prejudice
- magistrate
judge From the web:
- what judges does the president appoint
- what judge died
- what judges are elected by voters
- what judges are appointed for life
- what judges are on the supreme court
- what judge won the voice 2020
- what judge died in 2020
- what judges are elected
reflect
English
Etymology
From Old French reflecter (“to bend back, turn back”), from Latin reflect? (“I reflect”), from re- (“again”) + flect? (“I bend, I curve”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???fl?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
reflect (third-person singular simple present reflects, present participle reflecting, simple past and past participle reflected)
- (transitive) To bend back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- A mirror reflects the light that shines on it.
- (intransitive) To be bent back (light, etc.) from a surface.
- The moonlight reflected from the surface of water.
- (transitive) To mirror, or show the image of something.
- The shop window reflected his image as he walked past.
- (intransitive) To be mirrored.
- His image reflected from the shop window as he walked past.
- (transitive) To agree with; to closely follow.
- Entries in English dictionaries aim to reflect common usage.
- (transitive) To give evidence of someone's or something's character etc.
- The team's victory reflects the Captain's abilities.
- The teacher's ability reflects well on the school.
- (intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
- 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, page 229:
- Not for the first time, he reflected that it was not so much the speeches that strained the nerves as the palaver that went with them.
- 1985, Justin Richards, Option Lock, page 229:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:ponder
Derived terms
Translations
reflect From the web:
- what reflects light
- what reflection
- what reflects all colors
- what reflects energy from the sun in the atmosphere
- what reflects infrared light
- what reflects sunlight
- what reflects heat
- what reflects sound
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