(~s, judging, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is the person in a court of law who decides how the law should be applied, for example how criminals should be punished.
The ~ adjourned the hearing until next Tuesday...
Judge Mr Justice Schiemann jailed him for life.
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2.
A ~ is a person who decides who will be the winner of a competition.
A panel of ~s is now selecting the finalists.
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3.
If you ~ something such as a competition, you decide who or what is the winner.
Colin Mitchell will ~ the entries each week...
A grade B ~ could only be allowed to ~ alongside a qualified grade A ~.
VERB: V n, V
judging
The judging was difficult as always.
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4.
If you ~ something or someone, you form an opinion about them after you have examined the evidence or thought carefully about them.
It will take a few more years to ~ the impact of these ideas...
I am ready to ~ any book on its merits...
It’s for other people to ~ how much I have improved...
The UN withdrew its relief personnel because it ~d the situation too dangerous...
I ~d it to be one of the worst programmes ever screened...
The doctor ~d that the man’s health had, up to the time of the wound, been good...
VERB: V n, V n on n, V wh, V n adj, V n to-inf, V that
5.
If you ~ something, you guess its amount, size, or value or you guess what it is.
It is important to ~ the weight of your washing load correctly...
I ~d him to be about forty...
Though the shoreline could be dimly seen, it was impossible to ~ how far away it was...
= estimate
VERB: V n, V n to-inf, V wh
6.
If someone is a good ~ of something, they understand it and can make sensible decisions about it. If someone is a bad ~ of something, they cannot do this.
I’m a pretty good ~ of character...
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N of n
7.
You use judging by, judging from, or to ~ from to introduce the reasons why you believe or think something.
Judging by the opinion polls, he seems to be succeeding...
Judging from the way he laughed as he told it, it was meant to be humorous...
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8.
If you say that something is true as far as you can ~ or so far as you can ~, you are assuming that it is true, although you do not know all the facts about it.
The book, so far as I can ~, is remarkably accurate.
PHRASE: PHR with cl