Judge vs. Try
Judge and Try Definitions
Judge
To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration
Judge heights.
Judging character.
Try
To make an effort to do or accomplish (something); attempt
Tried to ski.
Judge
(Law) To hear and decide on in a court of law
Judge a case.
Try
To taste, sample, or otherwise test in order to determine strength, effect, worth, or desirability
Try this casserole.
Judge
To pass sentence on; condemn.
Try
To make an effort to open (a closed door or window).
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Judge
To act as one appointed to decide the winners of
Judge an essay contest.
Try
To conduct the trial of (a legal claim)
To try a negligence case.
Judge
To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation
Most people judged him negligent in performing his duties as a parent.
Try
To put (an accused person) on trial.
Judge
(Informal) To have as an opinion or assumption; suppose
I judge you're right.
Try
To subject to great strain or hardship; tax
The last steep ascent tried my every muscle.
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Judge
(Bible) To govern; rule. Used of an ancient Israelite leader.
Try
To melt (lard, for example) to separate out impurities; render.
Judge
To form an opinion or evaluation.
Try
To make an effort; strive
I know it's not easy, but keep trying!.
Judge
To act or decide as a judge.
Try
An attempt; an effort.
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Judge
One who makes estimates as to worth, quality, or fitness
A good judge of used cars.
A poor judge of character.
Try
(Sports) In rugby, an act of advancing the ball past the opponent's goal line and grounding it there for a score of three points.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases brought in court.
Try
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
I tried to rollerblade, but I couldn’t.
I'll come to dinner soon. I'm trying to beat this level first.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases or matters in a forum other than a court, such as an administrative proceeding.
Try
(obsolete) To divide; to separate.
Judge
One appointed to decide the winners of a contest or competition.
Try
To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
Judge
A leader of the Israelites during a period of about 400 years between the death of Joshua and the accession of Saul.
Try
(one sort from another) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out.
To try out the wild corn from the good
Judge
Judges (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
Try
(nautical) To extract oil from blubber or fat; to melt down blubber to obtain oil
Judge
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
Try
To extract wax from a honeycomb
Judge
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
Try
To test, to work out.
Judge
A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
Try
To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
I tried mixing more white paint to get a lighter shade.
Judge
A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.
She is a good judge of wine.
They say he is a poor judge of character considering all the unreliable friends he has made.
Try
To put to test.
I shall try my skills on this.
Judge
A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
Try
(specifically) To test someone's patience.
You are trying my patience.
Don't try me.
Judge
(transitive) To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter).
A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
Try
To receive an imminent attack; to take.
Judge
(intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
Justices in this country judge without appeal.
Try
To taste, sample, etc.
Oh, you need to try the soup of the day!
Judge
(transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
Try
To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
To try weights or measures by a standard;
To try a person's opinions
Judge
To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
He was judged to die for his crimes.
Try
(with indirect interrogative clause) To attempt to determine (by experiment or effort).
I'll try whether I can make it across town on foot.
Judge
To award judicially; to adjudge.
Try
(legal) To put on trial.
He was tried and executed.
Judge
(transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
Try
To experiment, to strive.
Judge
To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
Try
To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
Judge
(intransitive) To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
Try
To work on something with one's best effort and focus.
Dad, for fuck's sake, I'm trying my best!
You are trying too hard.
Judge
(transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
Try
(obsolete) To do; to fare.
How do you try! (i.e., how do you do?)
Judge
(ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
Try
To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
To try rival claims by a duel;
To try conclusions
Judge
(ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
Try
To attempt to conceive a child.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
Try
(nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
Judge
A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
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.
Try
To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
The light tries his eyes.
Repeated failures try one's patience.
Judge
One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic.
A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
Try
To want
I am really not trying to hear you talk about my mama like that.
Judge
A person appointed to decide in a trial of skill, speed, etc., between two or more parties; an umpire; as, a judge in a horse race.
Try
An attempt.
I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it.
Judge
One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
Try
An act of tasting or sampling.
I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it.
Judge
The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
Try
(rugby) A score in rugby league and rugby union, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
Today I scored my first try.
Judge
To hear and determine, as in causes on trial; to decide as a judge; to give judgment; to pass sentence.
The Lord judge between thee and me.
Father, who art judgeOf all things made, and judgest only right!
Try
A screen, or sieve, for grain.
Judge
To compare facts or ideas, and perceive their relations and attributes, and thus distinguish truth from falsehood; to determine; to discern; to distinguish; to form an opinion about.
Judge not according to the appearance.
She is wise if I can judge of her.
Try
(American football) A field goal or extra point
Judge
To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
Try
(chess) A move that almost solves a chess problem, except that Black has a unique defense.
Judge
To examine and pass sentence on; to try; to doom.
God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.
To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,And to be judged by him.
Try
(obsolete) Fine, excellent.
Judge
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Try
To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; - frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.
Judge
To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.
Try
To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
Judge
To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Make us a king to judge us.
Try
To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.
Let the end try the man.
Judge
A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
Try
To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.
Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased.
These are the times that try men's souls.
Judge
An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
Try
To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.
Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.
To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries.
Judge
Determine the result of (a competition)
Try
To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.
Judge
Form an opinion of or pass judgment on;
I cannot judge some works of modern art
Try
To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.
Judge
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Try
To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.
Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.
Judge
Pronounce judgment on;
They labeled him unfit to work here
Try
To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.
Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.
Judge
Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of;
The football star was tried for the murder of his wife
The judge tried both father and son in separate trials
Try
To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.
Let us try . . . to found a path.
He first deceased: she for a little triedTo live without him; liked it not, and died.
Alack, I am afraid they have a waked,And 't is not done. The attempt, and not the deed,Confounds us.
Try
To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.
Try
To do; to fare; as, how do you try!
Try
A screen, or sieve, for grain.
Try
Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.
This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.
Try
In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; - so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).
Try
Refined; select; excellent; choice.
Try
Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something;
Made an effort to cover all the reading material
Wished him luck in his endeavor
She gave it a good try
Try
Make an effort or attempt;
He tried to shake off his fears
The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps
The police attempted to stop the thief
He sought to improve himself
She always seeks to do good in the world
Try
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to;
This approach has been tried with good results
Test this recipe
Try
Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of;
The football star was tried for the murder of his wife
The judge tried both father and son in separate trials
Try
Take a sample of;
Try these new crackers
Sample the regional dishes
Try
Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process;
The jury had heard all the evidence
The case will be tried in California
Try
Give pain or trouble to;
I've been sorely tried by these students
Try
Test the limits of;
You are trying my patience!
Try
Melt (fat, lard, etc.) in order to separate out impurities;
Try the yak butter
Render fat in a casserole
Try
Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice;
Try on this sweater to see how it looks
