(v. i.) The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, whether of moral qualities, intellectual concepts, logical propositions, or material facts, is obtained; as, by careful judgment he avoided the peril; by a series of wrong judgments he forfeited confidence.
(v. i.) The power or faculty of performing such operations (see 1); esp., when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely; good sense; as, a man of judgment; a politician without judgment.
(v. i.) The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
(v. i.) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge; the mandate or sentence of God as the judge of all.
(v. i.) That act of the mind by which two notions or ideas which are apprehended as distinct are compared for the purpose of ascertaining their agreement or disagreement. See 1. The comparison may be threefold: (1) Of individual objects forming a concept. (2) Of concepts giving what is technically called a judgment. (3) Of two judgments giving an inference. Judgments have been further classed as analytic, synthetic, and identical.
(v. i.) That power or faculty by which knowledge dependent upon comparison and discrimination is acquired. See 2.
(v. i.) A calamity regarded as sent by God, by way of recompense for wrong committed; a providential punishment.
(v. i.) The final award; the last sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(2) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
(3) The department will consider the judgment to see whether it is obliged to rerun the consultation process.
(4) Visual judgments of tremor amplitude made by neurologists during clinical examinations equaled the sensitivity of computerized tremor amplitude measurements.
(5) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(6) Persons responsible for animals may be unaware of the potential hazard or lack good judgment in the use of these chemicals.
(7) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(8) These results were compared with perceptual judgments of "passability" under static and moving viewing conditions.
(9) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
(10) America's same-sex couples, and the politicians who have barred gay marriage in 30 states, are looking to the supreme court to hand down a definitive judgment on where the constitution stands on an issue its framers are unlikely to have imagined would ever be considered.
(11) Ultimately, the judgments combine to make a particularly peculiar melange: among the plaintiffs there is a mix of economic pessimism and insecure nationalism with a shot of nostalgia for the Deutschmark.
(12) These errors involved supervision, limited experience, and errors in judgment.
(13) Nineteen percent of the medication administration visits could be eliminated by this method according to the independent judgments of two physicians.
(14) "If there is some kind of contrived scheme or vehicle, ie it's obvious that the purpose of the scheme is to avoid paying VAT and it's taking advantage of a loophole and we consider that tax is actually owed on the scheme, rather than just being a case of sensible tax planning … we can make the judgment that this is not legitimate tax planning.
(15) "This age group feeds Radio 4's core audience and it would in my judgment be negligent not to [look at this]," Liddiment added.
(16) But like officials from most other countries represented here – with the notable exception of Britain – Chernishova acknowledges a "general consensus" in her country, in both the media and among the legal profession, on the value of the court's judgments.
(17) Two experiments were designed to examine the effects of multiple timing tasks on prospective time judgment performance.
(18) Although statistics cannot replace clinical judgment, this index can be a valuable objective tool in the evaluation of the patient with a severely traumatized extremity.
(19) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
(20) The durect judgment of the function of the floor of the pelvis is only possible by the electromyogram.
Ripen
Definition:
(v. i.) To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
(v. i.) To approach or come to perfection.
(v. t.) To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days ripened the corn.
(v. t.) To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection; as, to ripen the judgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data suggest that prostaglandin gel cervical ripening and induction of labor and delivery by 42 weeks' gestation may be the most appropriate management for patients with well-established gestational age and an unfavorable cervical examination.
(2) Analysis of extractable peptides showed that sub partu collagen was degraded in preference to noncollagenous proteins into very small fragments, whereas in the process of prostaglandin-induced cervical ripening collagen degradation appears to be of minor importance.
(3) Patients who were to have preinduction cervical ripening because of an unfavorable cervix (Bishop score less than or equal to 4) were randomly assigned to be given a single dose of prostaglandin E2 as either 2.5 mg of gel or a 3.0 mg "chip" intravaginally in a placebo-controlled manner.
(4) Listeria was not detected (direct plating, and cold enrichment) after 80, 77, and 66 d of ripening of Swiss cheese made from milk inoculated with strains California, Ohio, and V7, respectively.
(5) It is concluded that PGE2 vaginal tablets--a chemically stable alternative to pharmacy prepared pessaries--appear to be effective as regards cervical ripening as well as for labor induction.
(6) The results confirm that the intracervical administration of PGE2 in a viscous medium can induce ripening of the cervix in those patients at term displaying unfavorable cervical state.
(7) In contrast, it is activated by the plant hormone ethylene in leaves and during fruit ripening.
(8) The reduced pH of cheese curd, which reaches 4.5 to 5.2, depending on the variety, affects at least the following characteristics of curd and cheese: syneresis (and hence cheese composition), retention of calcium (which affects cheese texture), retention and activity of coagulant (which influences the extent and type of proteolysis during ripening), the growth of contaminating bacteria.
(9) Other ripening parameters, such as ethylene production, lycopene accumulation, polyuronide solubilisation, and invertase activity, together with pectinesterase activity were not affected by the expression of the antisense gene.
(10) It was noted that the collagen bundles disintegrated into fine fibers and also underwent quantitative changes during the ripening process of the cervix.
(11) There were no adverse side effects, indicating application of 2 mg of PGE2 as a safe method of cervical ripening prior to induction of labor.
(12) The success rate of stripping of the membranes defined as delivery within 48 hours after stripping of the membranes is related to the state of ripening of the uterine cervix and to the ease with which the membranes can be stripped.
(13) Two hundred patients received a prostaglandin E2-containing gel for preinduction cervical ripening.
(14) These findings point to the insufficient ripening, or aging of placental tissue, which is related to a release of lysosomal enzymes.
(15) He proposed that spermatozoa ripen during epididymal transit.
(16) Further a summary on questions of the biosynthesis of collagen, changes of the metabolism in the ageing organism and changes of the ripening collagen in the living organism is given.
(17) These results indicate that interleukin-8-like chemotactic factor participates in the cervical ripening at term pregnancy and that the production of this factor is controlled effectively by interleukin-1.
(18) The 15-methyl-prostaglandin F2 alpha methyl ester suppository technique seems to be effective, safe and simple in ripening the cervix for termination of early pregnancy in primigravidae.
(19) The cel1 mRNA was present at a low level in unripe fruit and increased 37-fold during ripening.
(20) Growth of salmonellae in Bologna sausage ("frische Mettwurst") can be inhibited by adding of at least 2.5% nitrit curing salt, 0.3% glucono-delta-lactone, and lactic acid starter cultures, even if the product is stored at temperatures up to 25 degrees C. Likewise in spreadible and sliceable fermented sausage ("streichfähige und schnittfeste Rohwurst") no growth of salmonellae is to be expected, if a similar technology secures a sufficient microbiological stability during the ripening and smoking process.