Judge vs. Jury

Judgenoun

A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

Judgenoun

A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.

Judgenoun

A person officiating at a sports event or similar.

Judgenoun

A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

Judgeverb

(transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.

Judgeverb

(intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.

Judgeverb

(transitive) To form an opinion on.

Judgeverb

(intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.

Judgeverb

(transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.

Judgeverb

(intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.

Judgeverb

(ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

Judgenoun

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.

Judgenoun

One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.

Judgenoun

A person appointed to decide in a trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.

Judgenoun

One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.

Judgenoun

The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.

Judgeverb

To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.

Judgeverb

To assume the right to pass judgment on another; to sit in judgment or commendation; to criticise or pass adverse judgment upon others. See Judge, v. t., 3.

Judgeverb

To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.

Judgeverb

To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.

Judgeverb

To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.

Judgeverb

To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.

Judgeverb

To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.

Judgeverb

To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.

Judgenoun

a public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice

Judgenoun

an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

Judgeverb

determine the result of (a competition)

Judgeverb

form an opinion of or pass judgment on;

Judgeverb

judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);

Judgeverb

pronounce judgment on;

Judgeverb

put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of;

Judge

A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions.

Jurynoun

(law) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

Jurynoun

A group of judges in a competition.

Jurynoun

The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.

Juryverb

To judge by means of a jury.

Juryadjective

(nautical) For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.

Juryadjective

For temporary use; - applied to a temporary contrivance.

Jurynoun

A body of people, selected according to law, impaneled and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to render their true verdict according to the evidence legally adduced. In criminal trials the number of such persons is usually twelve, but in civil cases and in grand juries it may different. See Grand jury under Grand, and Inquest.

Jurynoun

A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize.

Jurynoun

a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law

Jurynoun

a committee appointed to judge a competition

Jury

A jury is a sworn body of people (the jurors) convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment. Juries developed in England during the Middle Ages, and are a hallmark of the Anglo common law legal system.