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Meaning of judge

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  judge
      n 1: a public official authorized to decide questions brought
           before a court of justice [syn: {judge}, {justice},
           {jurist}]
      2: an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality [syn:
         {evaluator}, {judge}]
      v 1: determine the result of (a competition)
      2: 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" [syn: {evaluate},
         {pass judgment}, {judge}]
      3: judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or
         time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" [syn:
         {estimate}, {gauge}, {approximate}, {guess}, {judge}]
      4: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
         [syn: {pronounce}, {label}, {judge}]
      5: 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"
         [syn: {judge}, {adjudicate}, {try}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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