1. (

• judge ,
• justice ,
• jurist ,

) a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice ;

2. (

• evaluator ,
• judge ,

) an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality ;

1. (

• judge ,

) determine the result of (a competition) ;

2. (

• evaluate ,
• pass_judgment ,
• judge

) 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" ;

3. (

• estimate ,
• gauge ,
• approximate ,
• guess ,
• judge ,

) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time); "I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds" ;

4. (

• pronounce ,
• label ,
• judge

) pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" ;

5. (

• judge ,
• adjudicate ,
• 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" ;