judge

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noun

1 applies the law

ADJECTIVE

▪ experienced (esp. BrE)

▪ learned (esp. BrE)

▪ senior

▪ presiding, trial

▪ deputy (BrE)

▪ appeal, appellate, circuit, county, district, federal

▪ appeal-court, circuit-court, county-court, district-court

▪ High Court (in the UK), Supreme Court (in the US)

▪ bankruptcy, immigration (both AmE)

▪ unelected (esp. AmE)

▪ activist, conservative, liberal (all AmE)

▪

She has a reputation as a liberal, activist judge.

VERB + JUDGE

▪ be, sit as

▪

By next year you could be sitting as a High Court judge.

▪ appoint (sb as), elect, nominate (both esp. AmE)

▪ convince, impress, persuade, satisfy

▪

They must persuade the judge that a particular juror is likely to be biased.

▪ ask, tell

JUDGE + VERB

▪ oversee sth, preside, sit

▪

Which judge will be sitting next week?

▪

The judge overseeing the case ordered the documents to be produced.

▪ call sb

▪

The judge called the remaining witness.

▪ ask sth, say sth, tell (sb) sth

▪

A federal judge told the FBI they could not access the computers.

▪ direct sb (esp. BrE)

▪

The judge must direct the jury on points of law.

▪ consider sth

▪ accept sth, admit sth, agree (sth), allow sth, approve sth, uphold sth

▪

The judge admitted the notes of the interview as evidence.

▪ deny sth, disagree, dismiss sth, overrule sb/sth, overturn sth, refuse sth, reject sth

▪

The trial judge dismissed her compensation claim.

▪

Appeals court judges overturned the previous ruling.

▪ conclude sth, decide sth, declare sth, find sth, hold sth, rule sth

▪

The judge held that the company had been negligent.

▪ sum up

▪

The judge summed up and the jury retired to consider its verdict.

▪ sentence sb

▪ impose sth, order sth

▪

The judge ordered the company to pay compensation to the claimant.

▪

A judge could impose a substantial penalty.

▪ award (sb) sth, grant (sb) sth

▪

The judge awarded him damages of £20 000.

2 decides who has won a competition

ADJECTIVE

▪ competition

▪ independent

… OF JUDGES

▪ panel

▪

a panel of independent judges

JUDGE + VERB

▪ choose sb/sth, pick sb/sth, vote for sb/sth

▪ decide sth, vote on sth

PHRASES

▪ the judges' decision

▪

The judges' decision on the entries is final.

3 has the ability/knowledge to give an opinion

ADJECTIVE

▪ astute, good, great, shrewd

▪

You are the best judge of what your body needs.

▪

a shrewd judge of character

▪ bad, poor

▪ impartial

PREPOSITION

▪ judge of

▪

He is a good judge of musical talent.

PHRASES

▪ a good, bad etc. judge of character

▪

She's usually a pretty shrewd judge of character.

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verb

ADVERB

▪ accurately, correctly, rightly

▪ wrongly (esp. BrE)

▪

I think I judged the distance wrongly.

▪ fairly, properly (esp. BrE)

▪ harshly, unfairly

▪

I think you're judging her rather harshly.

▪ objectively

▪ subjectively

▪ beautifully (esp. BrE), carefully, finely, nicely, perfectly (both esp. BrE), well

▪

Their performance of the concerto was beautifully judged.

▪

‘There's something I haven't told you.’ She judged her words carefully.

▪

The golfer judged it well, timing the ball to perfection.

▪ accordingly

▪

Those who preach intolerance should be judged accordingly.

▪ purely, solely

▪

He was often judged solely on his looks.

VERB + JUDGE

▪ be difficult to, be hard to, be impossible to

▪ be able to, be in a position to

▪

I am in no position to judge whether what she is doing is right or wrong.

▪ learn to

▪

You soon learn to judge distances when driving.

PREPOSITION

▪ according to

▪

He believed that schools should be judged according to strictly academic criteria.

▪ against

▪

You always judge your own performance against that of others.

▪ by

▪

You will be judged by the work you have produced over the year.

▪ from

▪

The age of the furniture can be judged from the type of wood used.

▪ on

▪

Your slogan will be judged on its originality and style.

PHRASES

▪ criteria for judging

▪

People use different criteria for judging success at school.

▪ judge by appearances

▪ don't judge a book by its cover (= don't judge sth by how it looks)

▪ judging by sth, judging from sth

▪

He seems to have been a popular person, judging by the number of people at his funeral.

▪ to judge by, to judge from

▪

To judge from what she said, she was very disappointed.

▪ judge for yourself

▪

Readers are left to judge for themselves whether McCrombie is hero or villain.

▪ judge sth on its merits

▪

Each painting must be judged on its own merits.

▪ not for me, us etc. to judge

▪

It's not for me to judge whether he made the right decision.

Judge is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑jury

Judge is used with these nouns as the object: ↑case, ↑competition, ↑distance, ↑effectiveness, ↑entry, ↑extent, ↑impact, ↑merit, ↑quality, ↑reaction, ↑relevance, ↑reliability, ↑situation, ↑success, ↑worth