Judge vs. Arbiter — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Judge and Arbiter
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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.
Arbiter
One agreed upon or appointed to judge or decide a disputed issue; an arbitrator.
Judge
To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration
Judge heights.
Judging character.
Arbiter
One whose opinion or judgment is considered authoritative or worthy of respect
An arbiter of fashion.
Judge
(Law) To hear and decide on in a court of law
Judge a case.
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Arbiter
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them; an arbitrator.
Judge
To pass sentence on; condemn.
Arbiter
A person or object having the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
Television and film, not Vogue and similar magazines, are the arbiters of fashion.
Judge
To act as one appointed to decide the winners of
Judge an essay contest.
Arbiter
(electronics) A component in circuitry that allocates scarce resources.
Judge
To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation
Most people judged him negligent in performing his duties as a parent.
Arbiter
(transitive) To act as arbiter.
Judge
(Informal) To have as an opinion or assumption; suppose
I judge you're right.
Arbiter
A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them.
Judge
(Bible) To govern; rule. Used of an ancient Israelite leader.
Arbiter
Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose power of deciding and governing is not limited.
For Jove is arbiter of both to man.
Judge
To form an opinion or evaluation.
Arbiter
To act as arbiter between.
Judge
To act or decide as a judge.
Arbiter
Someone with the power to settle matters at will;
She was the final arbiter on all matters of fashion
Judge
One who makes estimates as to worth, quality, or fitness
A good judge of used cars.
A poor judge of character.
Arbiter
Someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases brought in court.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases or matters in a forum other than a court, such as an administrative proceeding.
Judge
One appointed to decide the winners of a contest or competition.
Judge
A leader of the Israelites during a period of about 400 years between the death of Joshua and the accession of Saul.
Judge
Judges (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
Judge
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
Judge
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
Judge
A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
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.
Judge
A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel.
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.
Judge
(intransitive) To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
Justices in this country judge without appeal.
Judge
(transitive) To judicially rule or determine.
Judge
To sentence to punishment, to judicially condemn.
He was judged to die for his crimes.
Judge
To award judicially; to adjudge.
Judge
(transitive) To form an opinion on; to appraise.
I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
Judge
To constitute a fitting appraisal or criterion of; to provide a basis for forming an opinion on.
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.
Judge
(transitive) To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To form an opinion; to infer.
I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.
Judge
(ambitransitive) To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction).
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.
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.
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.
Judge
One of the supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years.
Judge
The title of the seventh book of the Old Testament; the Book of Judges.
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!
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.
Judge
To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties.
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.
Judge
To arrogate judicial authority over; to sit in judgment upon; to be censorious toward.
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Judge
To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon.
If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord.
Judge
To exercise the functions of a magistrate over; to govern.
Make us a king to judge us.
Judge
A public official authorized to decide questions bought before a court of justice
Judge
An authority who is able to estimate worth or quality
Judge
Determine the result of (a competition)
Judge
Form an opinion of or pass judgment on;
I cannot judge some works of modern art
Judge
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Judge
Pronounce judgment on;
They labeled him unfit to work here
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
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