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Sue vs Judge - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between sue and judge

is that sue is to seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead while judge is to have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

As verbs the difference between sue and judge

is that sue is to follow while judge is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.

As proper nouns the difference between sue and judge

is that sue is a diminutive of Susan and of related female given names; popular as a middle name while Judge is {{surname}.

As nouns the difference between sue and judge

is that sue is a Mary Sue (type of character in fiction) while 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.

sue

English

Verb

  • To follow.
  • * , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
  • And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
  • though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.
  • (label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
  • (label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
  • To clean (the beak, etc.).
  • To leave high and dry on shore.
  • To court.
  • Derived terms

    * sue for peace

    Anagrams

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    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

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    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

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