Judge vs Speculate - 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 think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
* Hawthorne
To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
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, title= (intransitive, business, finance) To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
As a proper noun judge
is .As a verb speculate is
to think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.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
* * *speculate
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Verb
(speculat)- It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}