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say it: juhj
judge is a verb and noun meaning "determine the result of (a competition)". It is pronounced /ˈdʒʌdʒ/ — juhj. It carries 7 recorded senses.
form a critical opinion of
“I cannot judge some works of modern art”
“How do you evaluate this grant proposal?”
“We shouldn't pass judgment on other people”
put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
“The football star was tried for the murder of his wife”
“The judge tried both father and son in separate trials”
a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for judge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.