different between judge vs tester

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?st?/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Etymology 1

Probably from Old French testre, from Latin testa.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A canopy over a bed.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.13:

     And I could as hardly spare my gloves as my shirt, or forbeare washing of my hands both in the mornng and rising from the table, or lye in a bed without a testerne and curtaines about it, as of most necessary things.

   • October 3, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Horace Mann

     No tester to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
2. Something that overhangs something else; especially a canopy or soundboard over a pulpit.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 11:

     With our shaggy jackets drawn about our shoulders, we now passed the Tomahawk from one to the other, till slowly there grew over us a blue hanging tester of smoke, illuminated by the flame of the new-lit lamp.

Etymology 2

From test +? -er.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. A person who administers a test.
2. A device used for testing.
3. (Australia, slang, obsolete) A punishment of 25 lashes (strokes of a whip) across a person?s back.
4. A sample of perfume available in a shop for customers to try before they buy.
5. (cycling) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.

Synonyms

• (punishment) Botany Bay dozen

Hyponyms

• software tester

Translations

Etymology 3

For testern, teston, from French teston, from Old French teste (“the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin”). See tester (“a covering”), and compare testone, testoon.

Noun

tester (plural testers)

1. An old French silver coin.
2. (Britain, slang, dated) A sixpence.

   Synonyms: teston, tizzy

References

Anagrams

• Setter, Street, Teters, retest, setter, street

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s.te/

Etymology 1

test +? -er

Verb

tester

1. to test

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Latin testor.

Verb

tester

1. (law) to write one's will

Further reading

• “tester” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

tester

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of testor

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tester m

1. indefinite plural of test

Verb

tester

1. present of teste

Romanian

Etymology

From English tester.

Noun

tester n (plural testere)

1. tester

Declension

Swedish

Noun

tester

1. indefinite plural of test