Gauge vs. Judge — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Gauge and Judge
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Gauge
An instrument that measures and gives a visual display of the amount, level, or contents of something
A fuel gauge
Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as a part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions.
Gauge
The thickness, size, or capacity of something, especially as a standard measure.
Judge
To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration
Judge heights.
Judging character.
Gauge
The position of a sailing ship to windward (the weather gage) or leeward (the lee gage) of another
The French fleet was heavily outnumbered but had the weather gage
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Judge
(Law) To hear and decide on in a court of law
Judge a case.
Gauge
Estimate or determine the amount, level, or volume of
Astronomers can gauge the star's intrinsic brightness
Judge
To pass sentence on; condemn.
Gauge
Measure the dimensions of (an object) with a gauge
When dry the assemblies can be gauged exactly
Judge
To act as one appointed to decide the winners of
Judge an essay contest.
Gauge
The distance between the two rails of a railroad.
Judge
To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation
Most people judged him negligent in performing his duties as a parent.
Gauge
The distance between two wheels on an axle.
Judge
(Informal) To have as an opinion or assumption; suppose
I judge you're right.
Gauge
The interior diameter of a shotgun barrel as determined by the number of lead balls of a size exactly fitting the barrel that are required to make one pound. Often used in combination
A 12-gauge shotgun.
Judge
(Bible) To govern; rule. Used of an ancient Israelite leader.
Gauge
The thickness or diameter of sheet metal, wire, or a similar manufactured material or piece.
Judge
To form an opinion or evaluation.
Gauge
The fineness of knitted cloth as measured by the number of stitches per a given unit of length.
Judge
To act or decide as a judge.
Gauge
A standard or scale of measurement
The capacity of barrels was measured according to the gauge in use at the time.
Judge
One who makes estimates as to worth, quality, or fitness
A good judge of used cars.
A poor judge of character.
Gauge
An instrument for measuring the dimensions, capacity, or amount of something
A pressure gauge.
A fuel gauge.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases brought in court.
Gauge
A means of estimating or evaluating; a test
A gauge of character.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases or matters in a forum other than a court, such as an administrative proceeding.
Gauge
(Nautical) The position of a vessel in relation to another vessel and the wind.
Judge
One appointed to decide the winners of a contest or competition.
Gauge
To measure the dimensions, capacity, proportions, or amount of (something), especially by means of a gauge
Gauged the thickness of the metal part.
Judge
A leader of the Israelites during a period of about 400 years between the death of Joshua and the accession of Saul.
Gauge
To evaluate or estimate
Gauge a person's interest.
Judge
Judges (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
Gauge
To adapt or make conform to a specified standard
Pressure valves that are gauged to industry requirements.
Judge
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
Gauge
To chip or rub (bricks or stones) to size.
Judge
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
Gauge
To stretch (a pierced earlobe or other body part) by inserting progressively larger objects over a long period of time.
Judge
A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
Gauge
Of or relating to a gauge.
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.
Gauge
(Physics) Invariant under a local transformation.
Judge
A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
Gauge
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard
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.
Gauge
An act of measuring.
Judge
(intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
Justices in this country judge without appeal.
Gauge
An estimate.
Judge
(transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
Gauge
Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the level, state, dimensions or forms of things
Judge
To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
He was judged to die for his crimes.
Gauge
A thickness of sheet metal or wire designated by any of several numbering schemes.
Judge
To award judicially; to adjudge.
Gauge
(rail) track gauge
Judge
(transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
Gauge
(rail) loading gauge
Judge
To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
Gauge
A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.
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.
Gauge
(knitting) The number of stitches per inch, centimetre, or other unit of distance.
Judge
(transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
Gauge
(nautical) Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind.
A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
Gauge
(nautical) The depth to which a vessel sinks in the water.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
Gauge
(plastering) The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to make it set more quickly.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
Gauge
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
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.
Gauge
(firearms) A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly equivalent to .75 caliber.
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.
Gauge
A shotgun (synecdoche for 12 gauge shotgun, the most common chambering for combat and hunting shotguns).
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.
Gauge
A tunnel-like ear piercing consisting of a hollow ring embedded in the lobe.
Judge
One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
Gauge
Cannabis.
Judge
The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
Gauge
(transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
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!
Gauge
(transitive) To estimate.
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.
Gauge
(transitive) To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of.
Judge
To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
Gauge
To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it.
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.
Gauge
(transitive) To mix (a quantity of ordinary plaster) with a quantity of plaster of Paris.
Judge
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Gauge
(transitive) To chip, hew or polish (stones, bricks, etc) to a standard size and/or shape.
Judge
To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.
Gauge
To measure or determine with a gauge.
Judge
To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Make us a king to judge us.
Gauge
To measure or to ascertain the contents or the capacity of, as of a pipe, barrel, or keg.
Judge
A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
Gauge
To measure the dimensions of, or to test the accuracy of the form of, as of a part of a gunlock.
The vanes nicely gauged on each side.
Judge
An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
Gauge
To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment.
Judge
Determine the result of (a competition)
Gauge
To measure the capacity, character, or ability of; to estimate; to judge of.
You shall not gauge meBy what we do to-night.
Judge
Form an opinion of or pass judgment on;
I cannot judge some works of modern art
Gauge
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard.
This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by.
There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds.
Judge
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Gauge
Measure; dimensions; estimate.
The gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt.
Judge
Pronounce judgment on;
They labeled him unfit to work here
Gauge
Any instrument for ascertaining or regulating the dimensions or forms of things; a templet or template; as, a button maker's gauge.
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
Gauge
Any instrument or apparatus for measuring the state of a phenomenon, or for ascertaining its numerical elements at any moment; - usually applied to some particular instrument; as, a rain gauge; a steam gauge.
Gauge
Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.
Gauge
The distance between the rails of a railway.
Gauge
The quantity of plaster of Paris used with common plaster to accelerate its setting.
Gauge
That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles.
Gauge
A measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc.
Gauge
Accepted or approved instance or example of a quantity or quality against which others are judged or measured or compared
Gauge
The distance between the rails of a railway or between the wheels of a train
Gauge
The thickness of wire
Gauge
Diameter of a tube or gun barrel
Gauge
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Gauge
Rub to a uniform size;
Gauge bricks
Gauge
Determine the capacity, volume, or contents of by measurement and calculation;
Gauge the wine barrels
Gauge
Measure precisely and against a standard;
The wire is gauged
Gauge
Adapt to a specified measurement;
Gauge the instruments
Gauge
Mix in specific proportions;
Gauge plaster
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