Weigh vs Judge - What's the difference?
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To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
(figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
* Spenser
To consider a subject. (rfex)
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
* Shakespeare
* John Locke
(nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
(nautical) To weigh anchor.
* 1624 , , Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 91:
*1841 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘A Descent into the Maelström’:
*:‘Here we used to remain until nearly time for slack-water again, when we weighed and made for home.’
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
* Cowper
(obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
(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.
Weigh is a related term of judge.
As a verb weigh
is to determine the weight of an object.As a proper noun judge is
.weigh
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Verb
(en verb)- He weighed out two kilos of oranges for a client.
- You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
- could not weigh of worthiness aright
- I weigh ten and a half stone.
- They only weigh the heavier.
- Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart.
- Your vows to her and me will even weigh .
- This objection ought to weigh with those whose reading is designed for much talk and little knowledge.
- Towards the evening we wayed , and approaching the shoare [...], we landed where there lay a many of baskets and much bloud, but saw not a Salvage.
- Weigh the vessel up.
- I weigh not you.
- all that she so dear did weigh
Derived terms
* weigh down * weigh in/weigh-in * weight * weighty * weigh up * weigh onjudge
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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.