Judge vs Choose - What's the difference?
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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.
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
To elect.
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To decide to act in a certain way.
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To wish; to desire; to prefer.
*(Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
*:The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
(mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Scope for choice.
As nouns the difference between judge and choose
is that 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 while choose is the act of choosing; selection.As verbs the difference between judge and choose
is that judge is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on while choose is to pick; to make the choice of; to select.As a proper noun Judge
is {{surname}.As a conjunction choose is
the binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.judge
English
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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* * *choose
English
(Choice)Alternative forms
* chuseEtymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- The number of distinct subsets of size ''k'' from a set of size ''n'' is or "''n'' choose ''k''".
