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As nouns the difference between judge and measure

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 measure is the quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.

As verbs the difference between judge and measure

is that judge is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on while measure is to ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

As a proper noun Judge

is {{surname}.

judge

English

Alternative forms

* judg (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • 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.
  • 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.
    • At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
  • A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
    • He is a good judge of wine.
  • * Dryden
    • 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, sheriff

    Derived terms

    * * * * * *

    Verb

    (judg)
  • To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
    • A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
  • To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
    • Justices in this country judge without appeal.
  • To form an opinion on.
    • I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
  • To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
    • We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
  • To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
    • I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
  • To form an opinion; to infer.
    • I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
  • (intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * * *

    Related terms

    * abjudge * abjudicate * adjudicate * judgment * judicator * judicial * judiciary * prejudice * magistrate

    measure

    English

    (wikipedia measure)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The quantity, size, weight, distance or capacity of a substance compared to a designated standard.
  • An (unspecified) quantity or capacity.
  • *
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
    • It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
  • The precise designated distance between two objects or points.
  • The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated.
    • The tailor took my measure for a coat.
  • * Bible, Job xi. 9
    • The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
  • The act of measuring.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition.
  • * '>citation
  • (music) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats.
  • (dancing) A regulated movement, especially in a slow and stately dance, corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed.
  • (poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.
    • a poem in iambic measure
  • A rule, ruler or measuring stick.
  • A tactic, strategy or piece of legislation.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.
  • (arithmetic, dated) A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor.
    • the greatest common measure of two or more numbers
  • (geology) A bed or stratum.
    • coal measures'''; lead '''measures
  • An indicator; something used to assess some property.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 23, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Man Utd 1-6 Man City , passage=City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions.}}

    Synonyms

    * (musical designation) bar * (precise designated distance) metric

    Hyponyms

    * (mathematics) positive measure, signed measure, complex measure, Borel measure, , complete measure, Lebesgue measure

    Verb

    (measur)
  • To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Towards the end of poverty , passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
  • To estimate the unit size of something.
  • To judge, value, or appraise.
  • * (John Milton)
    • Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite / Thy power! what thought can measure thee?
  • To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
  • (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • A true devoted pilgrim is not weary / To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.
  • To adjust by a rule or standard.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.
  • To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out'' or ''off .
  • * Bible, Matthew vii. 2
    • With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
  • * Addison
    • That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

    Derived terms

    * measurement * measure stick * measure theory

    External links

    * * * 1000 English basic words