judge vs specialist

judge

noun
  • A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion. 

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

  • A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar. 

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

  • A shophet, a temporary leader appointed in times of crisis in ancient Israel. 

verb
  • To govern as biblical judge or shophet (over some jurisdiction). 

  • To form an opinion; to infer. 

  • To judicially rule or determine. 

  • To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc. 

  • To sit in judgment, to act as judge. 

  • To form an opinion on; to appraise. 

  • To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on (a person or matter). 

  • To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose. 

  • To criticize or label another person or thing. 

specialist

noun
  • Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research. 

  • A stenotopic species. 

  • A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery. 

  • Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal. 

  • An organism that is specialized for a particular environment. 

adj
  • Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic. 

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