different between imagine vs judge

English

Etymology

From Middle English ymagynen, from Middle French imaginer, from Latin im?ginor, from im?ginem, the accusative singular of im?g? (“a copy, likeness, image”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæd?.?n/
• Hyphenation: imag?ine

Verb

imagine (third-person singular simple present imagines, present participle imagining, simple past and past participle imagined)

1. (transitive) To form a mental image of something; to envision or create something in one's mind.
2. (transitive) To believe in something created by one's own mind.

3. (transitive) to assume

4. (transitive) to conjecture or guess

5. (intransitive) to use one's imagination

6. (transitive, obsolete) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs

Synonyms

• ween

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

imagine (plural imagines)

1. (fandom slang) A short fanfic or prompt placing a reader insert in a novel scenario with a character or celebrity.
   • 2015, Laura Starling, "FFIC101: An Introduction to the Horrors of Fanfiction", Critic (University of Otago), 2 March 2015, page 21:

     Some imagines are more sexual and creepy than others: "Imagine Stiles walking in on you giving Scott a blowjob."

   • 2016, Jocelyn Chambers, "The Exclusion Of People Of Color In Fanfiction", Majesty, December 2016, page 96:

     i personally like imagines and fanfics so i found a good amount of kylo ren x reader fics and started going through them.

   • 2019, "thranduilsperkybutt", quoted in "Author Spotlight: thranduilsperkybutt", Lemon, February 2019, page 37:

     If I get inspired immediately, I can bust out an imagine in 5-10 minutes.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:imagine.

French

Verb

imagine

1. first-person singular present indicative of imaginer
2. third-person singular present indicative of imaginer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imaginer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imaginer
5. second-person singular imperative of imaginer

Latin

Noun

im?gine

1. ablative singular of im?g?

Portuguese

Verb

imagine

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of imaginar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of imaginar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of imaginar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of imaginar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin im?g?, im?ginem, French image.

Noun

imagine f (plural imagini)

1. image

Declension

Related terms

• imagina

See also

• poz?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ima?xine/, [i.ma?xi.ne]

Verb

imagine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of imaginar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of imaginar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of imaginar.

English

Alternative forms

• judg (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?j, IPA^(key): /d???d??/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Etymology 1

From Middle English juge, jugge, borrowed from Old French juge, from Latin i?dex. Displaced native Old English d?ma.

Noun

judge (plural judges)

2. A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
   • 1612, Francis Bacon, Of Judicature

     The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.

3. A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
4. A person officiating at a sports event or similar.

5. A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

Synonyms

• (one who judges in an official capacity): magistrate (now usually of low rank); justice (now usually of high rank); justiciar, justiciary (historic, of high rank); Chief Justice, Chief Justiciar, Capital Justiciary, Chief Justiciary, justiciar, justiciary (of the highest rank); justicer (obsolete); sheriff, bailiff, reeve (historic or obsolete); doomsman (obsolete)
• (one who judges generally): deemer, deemster

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ?? (zoz)
• ? Bengali: ?? (jôj)
• ? Hindustani:

  Hindi: ?? (jaj)

  Urdu: ??? (jaj)

• ? Oriya: ??? (jôj)
• ? Tamil: ????? (ja?ji)
• ? Telugu: ???? (ja?ja)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English jugen, borrowed from Anglo-Norman juger, from Old French jugier, from Latin i?dic?re.

Mostly displaced native deem.

Verb

judge (third-person singular simple present judges, present participle judging, simple past and past participle judged)

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

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

3. (transitive) To form an opinion on.
   • c. 1921, Michael Collins, after the Anglo-Irish Treaty:

     Let us be judged for what we attempted rather than what we achieved.

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

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

6. (intransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.

   • THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.

7. (transitive, intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
   • 1993, Aerosmith, Livin' on the Edge

     There's something wrong with the world today; the light bulb's getting dim.

     There's meltdown in the sky.

     If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin,

     Mister, you're a better man than I

Conjugation

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deem

Derived terms

• forejudge
• misjudge
• unjudge
• you can't judge a book by its cover

Translations

See also

• abjudge
• abjudicate
• adjudicate
• judgment
• judicator
• judicial
• judiciary
• prejudice
• magistrate