different between judge vs investigator

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

English

Etymology

Attested in the mid?16th century; from Latin investigator, from investigare.

Noun

investigator (plural investigators)

1. One who investigates.

Hyponyms

• principal investigator

Derived terms

• co-investigator

Related terms

• investigatrix (feminine)

Translations

References

• investigator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “investigator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• investigator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Etymology 1

From invest?g? +? -tor

Noun

invest?g?tor m (genitive invest?g?t?ris); third declension

1. investigator, researcher
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, Nova formicae species [1], Nuntii Latini 27.4.2018:

     Grex investigatorum in Borneo novam formicae speciem invenit, quae se explodendo communitatem suam defendit.

     A group of researchers in Borneo has found a new species of ant which defends its nest by exploding.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

invest?g?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of invest?g?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of invest?g?

References

• investigator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• investigator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Romanian

Etymology

From French investigateur, from Latin investigator.

Adjective

investigator m or n (feminine singular investigatoare, masculine plural investigatori, feminine and neuter plural investigatoare)

1. investigating

Declension

Noun

investigator m (plural investigatori, feminine equivalent investigatoare)

1. investigator

Derived terms

• investiga
• investigare
• investiga?ie