Say vs Judge - What's the difference?
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To pronounce.
To recite.
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, chapter=1 To indicate in a written form.
(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).
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* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:
* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:
(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?
To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.
* 2004 , Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web
(colloquial) (non-gloss definition, Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion)
For example; let us assume.
(informal) (Used to introduce a hypothetical)
A type of fine cloth similar to serge.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:
Trial by sample; assay; specimen.
* Hooker
* Shakespeare
Tried quality; temper; proof.
* Spenser
Essay; trial; attempt.
(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.
As proper nouns the difference between say and judge
is that say is while judge is .say
English
(wikipedia say)Etymology 1
From (etyl) seyen, seien, seggen, &c., from (etyl) .Verb
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- They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.
- It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.
- It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.
- I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt
- You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.
- To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?
Synonyms
* SeeDerived terms
* dessay * doomsaying * nay-say * saith * sayeth * sayer * saying * there is much to be said * what do you say * you don't sayNoun
(en noun)- Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says .
References
* *Etymology 2
Grammaticalization of the verb. In the case of the conjunction, it could be considered an elision of "Let's say that" and for the "for example" sense of "Let's say"Adverb
(-)- Say , what did you think about the movie?
- Pick a color you think they'd like, say , peach.
- He was driving pretty fast, say , fifty miles per hour.
Synonyms
* (used to gain attention) heyConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it ok to steal some food?
Etymology 3
From (etyl) saie, from (etyl) saga, plural of .Noun
(-)- All in a kirtle of discolourd say / He clothed was
Etymology 4
Aphetic form of assay.Noun
(en noun)- If those principal works of God be but certain tastes and says , as if were, of that final benefit.
- Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.
- He found a sword of better say .
- (Ben Jonson)
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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.