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JUDGING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions

Synonyms:

judgement; judging; judgment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("judging" is a kind of...):

deciding; decision making (the cognitive process of reaching a decision)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "judging"):

prejudgement; prejudgment (a judgment reached before the evidence is available)

Derivation:

judge (form a critical opinion of)

judge (judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time))

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb judge

Credits

 Context examples: 

Refers to data that is useful in forming an opinion or judging an outcome.

(Informative, NCI Thesaurus)

If this journal be true—and judging by one's own wonderful experiences, it must be—he is also a man of great nerve.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We have no means of judging.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What have you been judging from?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

When subjects were listening to the sounds but not judging which category they belonged to, the neural activity patterns in the prefrontal cortex region did not distinguish one category from another.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

“I should say that he has been dead about three hours, judging by the rigidity of the muscles,” said I.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I were not afraid of judging harshly, I should be almost tempted to say that there is a strong appearance of duplicity in all this.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I sent no answer to Marianne, intending by that to preserve myself from her farther notice; and for some time I was even determined not to call in Berkeley Street;—but at last, judging it wiser to affect the air of a cool, common acquaintance than anything else, I watched you all safely out of the house one morning, and left my name.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Spanish slinger, seeing the youth lie slain, and judging from his dress that he was no common man, rushed forward to plunder him, knowing well that the bowmen above him had expended their last shaft.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Considering the very superior claims of the object, it ought; and judging by its apparently stronger effect on Harriet's mind, producing reserve and self-command, it would.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)