0 a person who is in charge of a trial in a court and decides how a person who is guilty of a crime should be punished, or who makes decisions on legal matters: --
1 the person who officially decides who is the winner of a competition: --
2 to form, give, or have as an opinion, or to decide about something or someone, especially after thinking carefully: --
Judging by what he said, I think it's very unlikely that he'll be able to support your application.
I've been asked to judge the children's poetry competition.
You have no right to judge other people because of what they look like or what they believe.
I'm hopeless at judging distance(s) (= guessing how far it is between places).
You shouldn't judge by/on appearances alone.
[ + question word ] It's difficult to judge whether the new system really is an improvement.
So far, he seems to be handling the job well, but it's really too soon to judge.
3 a person who is in charge of a court of law: --
The judge dismissed the charge after a preliminary hearing.
4 a person who is qualified to form or give an opinion about something: --
a good judge of character
5 to have or give an opinion, or to decide about something or someone, esp. after thinking carefully: --
The pace at which new financial systems can be introduced needs to be carefully judged.
In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity, judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends.
Their arguments have to be judged on their merits.
Only the first is praiseworthy for the utilitarian, since praise is essentially itself an act to be judged as good or harmful.
Within it, ideally, one's audience and judges are solely one's colleagues who, again ideally, have, like oneself, a purely disinterested commitment to truth.
The best interest will be judged by the professional.
Therefore, ratios should be judged based on the absolute signal intensity of each gene.
We give the child two pencils of equal length side-by-side, and he correctly judges them to be the" same size".
