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choose

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11
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11
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6
Pronunciation
/t͡ʃuːz/

Definition of choose

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
    “I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.”
    “Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.”
    “The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.”
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verb

  1. To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
    “I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.”
    “Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.”
    “The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.”
  2. To elect.
    “He was chosen as president in 1990.”
  3. To decide to act in a certain way.
    “I chose to walk to work today.”
  4. To prefer; to wish; to desire.
    “The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.”
    “Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.”

conj

  1. The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
    “The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is tbinom nk or "n choose k".”

noun

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete)The act of choosing; selection.
  2. (Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete)The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.

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Etymology

From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste,…

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From Middle English cheosen, chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).

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