Definition of "judge" in Englisch

noun

1. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

2. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.

3. A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.

   • At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.

4. A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

   • She is a good judge of wine.
   • They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.

5. (historical, biblical) A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.

verb

1. (transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).

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

2. (intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

   • Justices in this country judge without appeal.

3. (transitive) To judicially rule or determine.

4. (transitive, obsolete) To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.

   • He was judged to die for his crimes.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To award judicially; to adjudge.

6. (transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.

   • I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
   • Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.

8. (intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.

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

9. (transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

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

10. (ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.

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

11. (ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing; to be judgmental toward.

12. (ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).