Judge vs. Reeve — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Judge and Reeve
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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.
Reeve
The elected president of a town council in some parts of Canada.
Judge
To form an opinion or estimation of after careful consideration
Judge heights.
Judging character.
Reeve
Any of various minor officers of parishes or other local authorities.
Judge
(Law) To hear and decide on in a court of law
Judge a case.
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Reeve
A bailiff or steward of a manor in the later medieval period.
Judge
To pass sentence on; condemn.
Reeve
A high officer of local administration appointed by the Anglo-Saxon kings.
Judge
To act as one appointed to decide the winners of
Judge an essay contest.
Reeve
The female ruff, Philomachus pugnax.
Judge
To determine or declare after consideration or deliberation
Most people judged him negligent in performing his duties as a parent.
Reeve
To pass (a rope or rod) through a hole, ring, pulley, or block.
Judge
(Informal) To have as an opinion or assumption; suppose
I judge you're right.
Reeve
To fasten by passing through or around.
Judge
(Bible) To govern; rule. Used of an ancient Israelite leader.
Reeve
To pass a rope or rod through (a hole, ring, pulley, or block).
Judge
To form an opinion or evaluation.
Reeve
(historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
Judge
To act or decide as a judge.
Reeve
(Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
Judge
One who makes estimates as to worth, quality, or fitness
A good judge of used cars.
A poor judge of character.
Reeve
The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases brought in court.
Reeve
A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
Judge
(Law) A public official who hears and decides cases or matters in a forum other than a court, such as an administrative proceeding.
Reeve
To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
Judge
One appointed to decide the winners of a contest or competition.
Reeve
The female of the ruff.
Judge
A leader of the Israelites during a period of about 400 years between the death of Joshua and the accession of Saul.
Reeve
An officer, steward, bailiff, or governor; - used chiefly in compounds; as, shirereeve, now written sheriff; portreeve, etc.
Judge
Judges (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
Reeve
To pass, as the end of a pope, through any hole in a block, thimble, cleat, ringbolt, cringle, or the like.
Judge
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
Reeve
Female ruff
Judge
A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
Reeve
Pass a rope through;
Reeve an opening
Judge
A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar.
At a boxing match, the decision of the judges is final.
Reeve
Pass through a hole or opening;
Reeve a rope
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.
Reeve
Fasten by passing through a hole or around something
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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