different between weigh vs judge

English

Alternative forms

• waye, weye (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English weghen, we?en, from Old English wegan, from Proto-Germanic *wegan? (“to move, carry, weigh”), from Proto-Indo-European *wé??eti, from *we??- (“to bring, transport”). Cognate with Scots wey or weich, Dutch wegen, German wiegen, wägen, Danish veje, Norwegian Bokmål veie, Norwegian Nynorsk vega. Doublet of wedge, wagon, way, and vector.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?, IPA^(key): /we?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Homophones: way, wey, whey (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Verb

weigh (third-person singular simple present weighs, present participle weighing, simple past and past participle weighed)

1. (transitive) To determine the weight of an object.
2. (transitive) Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
4. (intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To judge; to estimate.
5. (transitive) To consider a subject. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
6. (transitive) To have a certain weight.

7. (intransitive) To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
   • They only weigh the heavier.

8. (intransitive) To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
9. (transitive, nautical) To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
10. (intransitive, nautical) To weigh anchor.
11. To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
12. (obsolete) To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.

Usage notes

• In commercial and everyday use, the term "weight" is usually used to mean mass, and the verb "to weigh" means "to determine the mass of" or "to have a mass of".

Derived terms

Related terms

• weight

Translations

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