Access vs Judge - What's the difference?
access | judge |
(uncountable) A way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.
* All access was thronged. - Milton
(uncountable) The act of approaching or entering; an advance.
(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
(uncountable) The quality of being easy to approach or enter.
* c. 1600 , (William Shakespeare), Act 2 Scene 1
* {{quote-news, year=2011
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, title=University access plan 'will fail', says Russell Group
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(uncountable) Admission to sexual intercourse.
* 1760s , (William Blackstone),
(countable) An increase by addition; accession; as, an access of territory.
* I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access in every virtue. - Milton
(countable) An onset, attack, or fit of disease; an ague fit.
* The first access looked like an apoplexy. - Burnet
(countable) An outburst of an emotion; a paroxysm; a fit of passion; as, an access of fury.
* 1946 , Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History (Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell)
(uncountable, legal) The right of a non-custodial parent to visit their child.
(uncountable, computing) The process of locating data in memory.
(uncountable, Internet) Connection to or communication with a computer program or to the Internet.
To gain or obtain access to.
(computing) To have access to (data).
(senseid)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
* Francis Bacon
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
* Dryden
To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
To form an opinion on.
To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
To form an opinion; to infer.
* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
(intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
As a noun access
is (uncountable) a way or means of approaching or entering; an entrance; a passage.As a verb access
is to gain or obtain access to.As a proper noun judge is
.access
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Etymology 1
* First attested in the early 14th century. * (entrance) First attested about 1380. * From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
- I did repel his fetters, and denied His access to me. - Shakespeare, Hamlet, II-i
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- During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown.
- It appears that, about the middle of the fourth century of the Christian Era, the Germans in the Roman service started the new practice of retaining their native names; and this change of etiquette, which seems to have been abrupt, points to a sudden access of self-confidence and self-assurance in the souls of the barbarian personnel which had previously been content to 'go Roman' without reservations.
- Usage note: sometimes confused with excess
Derived terms
* direct access * random access * remote accessEtymology 2
* First attested in 1962.Verb
(es)- I can't access most of the data on the computer without a password.
References
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*judge
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Alternative forms
* judg (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
- He is a good judge of wine.
- A man who is no judge' of law may be a good ' judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
Synonyms
* (one who judges or dispenses judgement) deemer, deemster * (official of the court) justice, sheriffDerived terms
* * * * * *Verb
(judg)- A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
- Justices in this country judge without appeal.
- I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
- We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
- I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
- I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
- THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.