Answer vs Judge - What's the difference?
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A response or reply; something said]] or [[do, done in reaction to a statement or question.
A solution to a problem.
(legal) A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.
(ambitransitive) To make a reply or response to.
* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 26
* Shakespeare
*
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To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.
(ambitransitive) To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.
To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.
* Alexander Ellis
* 1903 , , (The Way of All Flesh) , Ch. 41
To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.
* Shakespeare
(legal) To file a document in response to a complaint.
To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.
* 1775 , (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), (The Duenna) , Act 2, Scene 2
* B. Edwards
To be opposite, or to act in opposition.
* Gilpin
To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to .
* Jonathan Swift
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxvii. 19
To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.
* Bible, Matt. xxii. 46
* Milton
* Macaulay
To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, or demand.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To render account to or for.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To atone; to be punished for.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To be or act as an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay.
* Bible, Eccles. x. 19
(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.
In transitive terms the difference between answer and judge
is that answer is to speak in defence against; to reply to in defence while judge is to have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.As nouns the difference between answer and judge
is that answer is a response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question while judge is (public judicial official)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.As verbs the difference between answer and judge
is that answer is to make a reply or response to while judge is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.As a proper noun Judge is
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(wikipedia answer)Alternative forms
* (both obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), andsware, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face .
- There is no simple answer to corruption.
Derived terms
() * answerless * answer on a postcard * answerphone * answer printSee also
* askEtymology 2
From (etyl) answeren, andswaren, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- There was no voice, nor any that answered .
- She answers him as if she knew his mind.
- to answer a charge or accusation
- Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.
- Of course for publication in a newspaper, my palaeotype would not answer , but my glossotype would enable the author to give his Pennsylvania German in an English form and much more intelligibly.
- Theobald spoke as if watches had half-a-dozen purposes besides time-keeping, but he could hardly open his mouth without using one or other of his tags, and "answering every purpose" was one of them.
- The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.
- Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law.
- I wish she had answered her picture as well.
- The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.
- The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them.
- Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person.
- That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience.
- If this but answer to my just belief, / I'll remember you.
- As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
- No man was able to answer him a word.
- These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant.
- The reasoning was not and could not be answered .
- He answered my claim upon him.
- The servant answered the bell.
- This proud king studies day and night / To answer all the debts he owes unto you.
- I will send him to answer thee.
- And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
- Money answereth all things.
Derived terms
() * answerable * answer at * answer back * answerer * answer for * answer the call of nature * answer the helm * answer toSee also
* questionjudge
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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.