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judge

noun

1 the judge sentenced him to five years:

justice, magistrate, His/Her/Your Honour;

Law Lord, Lord Justice;

(judges) the judiciary;

in England & Wales recorder;

in Scotland sheriff;

in the Isle of Man deemster;

in the Channel Islands jurat;

North American jurist, surrogate;

Spanish alcalde;

informal beak, m'lud;

historical reeve;

Scottish, historical sheriff-depute, bailie.

2 a distinguished panel of judges will select the winning design:

adjudicator, arbiter, assessor, evaluator, appraiser, examiner, moderator;

umpire, referee, referee's assistant, assistant referee, linesman, line judge, mediator;

expert, connoisseur, authority, specialist, pundit;

Latin arbiter elegantiarum.

verb

1 I judged that she was simply exhausted | voters were asked what factors they judged to be most important:

form the opinion, come to the conclusion, conclude, decide, determine;

consider, believe, think, deem, view;

deduce, gather, infer, gauge, tell, see, say, estimate, assess, guess, surmise, conjecture;

regard as, hold, see as, look on as, take to be, rate as, rank as, class as, count;

informal reckon, figure, guesstimate.

2 other cases were judged by tribunal:

try, hear, sit in judgement on;

adjudicate, decide, give a ruling/verdict on, pass judgement on.

3 she was judged innocent of murder:

adjudge, pronounce, decree, rule, find.

4 the competition will be judged by Alan Amey:

adjudicate, arbitrate, umpire, referee, mediate, moderate;

officiate.

5 entries will by judged by a panel of experts:

assess, appraise, evaluate, weigh up;

examine, review, criticize;

informal size up.

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