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Judge vs. Recorder — What's the Difference?

Judge vs. Recorder — What's the Difference?

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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.

Recorder

An apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data
I was talking away into my recorder
A cockpit voice recorder

Judge

To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration
Judge heights.
Judging character.

Recorder

A person who keeps records
A recorder of rural life

Judge

(Law) To hear and decide on in a court of law
Judge a case.
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Recorder

(in England and Wales) a barrister appointed to serve as a part-time judge.

Judge

To pass sentence on; condemn.

Recorder

A simple wind instrument without keys, held vertically and played by blowing air through a shaped mouthpiece against a sharp edge.

Judge

To act as one appointed to decide the winners of
Judge an essay contest.

Recorder

One, such as a tape recorder, that makes recordings or records.

Judge

To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation
Most people judged him negligent in performing his duties as a parent.

Recorder

A public officer in charge of the records of instruments required to be registered, such as deeds.

Judge

(Informal) To have as an opinion or assumption; suppose
I judge you're right.

Recorder

A judge who has criminal jurisdiction in a city.

Judge

(Bible) To govern; rule. Used of an ancient Israelite leader.

Recorder

(Music) A flute with eight finger holes and a whistlelike mouthpiece.

Judge

To form an opinion or evaluation.

Recorder

An apparatus for recording; a device which records.

Judge

To act or decide as a judge.

Recorder

Agent noun of record; one who records.

Judge

One who makes estimates as to worth, quality, or fitness
A good judge of used cars.
A poor judge of character.

Recorder

A judge in a municipal court.

Judge

(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases brought in court.

Recorder

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.

Judge

(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases or matters in a forum other than a court, such as an administrative proceeding.

Recorder

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

Judge

One appointed to decide the winners of a contest or competition.

Recorder

The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

Judge

A leader of the Israelites during a period of about 400 years between the death of Joshua and the accession of Saul.

Recorder

A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.

Judge

Judges (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.

Recorder

Equipment for making records

Judge

A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.

Recorder

Someone responsible for keeping records

Judge

A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.

Recorder

A barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs

Judge

A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.

Recorder

A woodwind with a vertical pipe and 8 finger holes and a whistle mouthpiece

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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