Conduct vs Judge - What's the difference?
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The act or method of controlling or directing
* 1785 , (William Paley), The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy
* Ld. Brougham
Skillful guidance or management; generalship.
* Robertson
The manner of guiding or carrying oneself; personal deportment; mode of action; behavior.
* Macaulay
* Dryden
(of a literary work) Plot; action; construction; manner of development.
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
* Ben Jonson
* Shakespeare
That which carries or conveys anything; a channel; a conduit; an instrument.
* Shakespeare
(archaic) To lead, or guide; to escort.
* 1634 , (John Milton),
To lead, as a commander; to direct; to manage; to carry on.
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(reflexively to conduct oneself ) To behave.
To serve as a medium for conveying; to transmit, as heat, light, electricity, etc.
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(music) To direct, as the leader in the performance of a musical composition.
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To act as a conductor (as of heat, electricity, etc.); to carry.
To carry out (something organized)
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(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 conduct
is the act or method of controlling or directing.As a verb conduct
is (archaic|transitive) to lead, or guide; to escort.As a proper noun judge is
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Noun
(-)- There are other restrictions imposed upon the conduct of war, not by the law of nature primarily, but by the laws of war first, and by the law of nature as seconding and ratifying the laws of war.
- the conduct of the state, the administration of its affairs
- Conduct of armies is a prince's art. - .
- with great impetuosity, but with so little conduct , that his forces were totally routed.
- Good conduct''' will be rewarded and likewise poor '''conduct will be punished.
- All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury.
- What in the conduct of our life appears / So well designed, so luckily begun, / But when we have our wish, we wish undone?
- the book of Job, in conduct and diction
- I will be your conduct .
- In my conduct shall your ladies come.
- although thou hast been conduct of my chame
Synonyms
* (act or method of controlling or directing ) control, guidance, management * (manner of guiding or carrying one's self ): bearing, behavior/behaviour, deportment, demeanor/demeanour, * (plot of a literary work) action, plot, storylineVerb
(en verb)- I can conduct you, lady, to a low / But loyal cottage, where you may be safe.
- to conduct the affairs of a kingdom
- Little skilled in the art of conducting a siege.
- He conducted himself well.
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- For a while, Walter Pohlmann, a well-known German conductor, conducted' the orchestra in Compound 3. Later, Willi Mets, who had '''conducted''' the world-renowned Leipzig Symphony Orchestra, ' conducted the Compound 3 orchestra.
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Synonyms
* (lead or guide) accompany, escort, guide, lead, steer, belead * (direct) direct, lead, manage, oversee, run, supervise, belead * act, behave, carry on * (to serve as a medium for conveying) carry, convey, transmitStatistics
* English heteronymsjudge
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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.