A judge is the person in a court of law who decides how the law should be applied, for example how criminals should be punished.

A judge is a person who decides who will be the winner of a competition.

If you judge something such as a competition, you decide who or what is the winner.

If you judge something or someone, you form an opinion about them after you have examined the evidence or thought carefully about them.

If you judge something, you guess its amount, size, or value or you guess what it is.

If someone is a good judge of something, they understand it and can make sensible decisions about it. If someone is a bad judge of something, they cannot do this.

You use judging by ,judging from, or to judge from to introduce the reasons why you believe or think something.

If you say that something is true as far as you can judge or so far as you can judge, you are assuming that it is true, although you do not know all the facts about it.