Judge vs Forensic - 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.
Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
* {{quote-news
, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
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, passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
* 1996 , 8 June, Bill Clinton, ,
(dated) Relating to, or appropriate for courts of law.
* 1885 , , The Life of Abraham Lincoln , ,
(archaic) Relating to, or used in debate or argument.
* 1851 , (Edward Shepherd Creasy), (The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World) , ,
As a proper noun judge
is .As an adjective forensic is
relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.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.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* * *forensic
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Alternative forms
* forensick (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Fire investigators and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the , interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
- It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held,
- Varus trusted implicitly to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.