judge

Noun

• an authority who is able to estimate worth or quality

• a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice

Verb

• 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
    

• pronounce judgment on
  • They labeled him unfit to work here
    

• judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
  • I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
    

• 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
    

• determine the result of (a competition)

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  evaluator , justice , jurist , adjudicate , try , pronounce , label , estimate , gauge , approximate , guess , evaluate , pass judgment