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conj
The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
The act of choosing; selection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
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noun
The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
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verb
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
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verb
To elect.
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verb
To decide to act in a certain way.
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verb
To prefer; to wish; to desire.
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verb
pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: take, select, pick out
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Broader terms: decide, make up one's mind, determine
Narrower terms: empanel, impanel, panel, anoint, field, sieve, sift, draw, dial, plump, go, pick, elect, excerpt, extract, take out, cull out, winnow, cream off, skim off, sieve out, pick over, assign, specify, set apart, single out, think of, set, determine, define, fix, limit, adopt, follow, espouse, screen, screen out, sort, vote in, nominate, propose, vote
verb
select as an alternative over another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: prefer, opt
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Narrower terms: opt out, cop out
verb
see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way
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Broader terms: evaluate, pass judgment, judge
History
From Middle English 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 test; to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti (“to choose, taste”), from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten”), Faroese and Icelandic kjósa (“to vote; to elect; to choose; to prefer”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjosa, kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm; to bewitch”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), French choisir (“to choose”); also Breton diuz (“to choose”), Cornish and Welsh dewis (“to choose”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed; to taste; to eat; to try; to enjoy”), Czech zkoušet (“to taste; to examine; to rehearse”), Polish kuszać (“to eat”), Russian кушать (kušatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”), Serbo-Croatian ку̏шати, kȕšati (“to taste; to test”), Ukrainian ку́шати (kúšaty, “to taste; to eat”), куштува́ти (kuštuváty, “to taste”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (zaoša, “pleasure”), Baluchi and Pashto دوست (dost, “friend”), Northern Kurdish and Zazaki dost (“friend”), Persian دوسْت (dōst / dust, “friend; boyfriend or girlfriend; loved”), Sanskrit जुषते (juṣate, “to enjoy”).
From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, a Northern dialectal form of Middle English chois (“choice”). Cognate with Scots chose, choose, chuse (“choosing, choice, selection”). Doublet of choice, which see for more.
Across languages
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