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Judge is a related term of tester.


As a proper noun judge

is .

As a noun tester is

a canopy over a bed or tester can be a person who administers a test or tester can be an old french silver coin.

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

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    tester

    English

    Etymology 1

    Probably from (etyl) testre, from (etyl) testa.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A canopy over a bed.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.13:
  • *:And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.
  • * Walpole
  • No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane half tester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}
  • Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
  • *1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) , :
  • With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who administers a test.
  • A device used for testing.
  • (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.1987 , , 1996, paperback, ISBN 1-86046-150-6, Chapter 12.
  • A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
  • Synonyms
    * (punishment) Botany Bay dozen

    Etymology 3

    For (testern), (teston), from (etyl) teston, from (etyl) teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See (tester) a covering, and compare (testone), (testoon).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An old French silver coin.
  • (UK, slang, dated) A sixpence.
  • Synonyms
    * (sixpence) teston, tizzy

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