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choose

verb
/t͡ʃuːz/

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, 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”).

  1. inherited from *ǵéwseti✻
  2. inherited from *keusaną✻
  3. inherited from *keusan✻
  4. inherited from ċēosan
  5. inherited from cheosen

Definitions

  1. To pick

    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. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To prefer

      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.

    2. 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".

    3. The act of choosing

      The act of choosing; selection.

    4. The power, right, or privilege of choosing

      The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.

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Derived

choosability, choosable, chooseable, choose one's battles, choose one's fighter, choose out, chooser, choose sides, choose the wrong horse, choose up, choose violence, choose your own adventure, choose-your-own-adventure, choosingly, cut and choose, divide and choose, forechoose, I choose violence, mischoose, nothing to choose between, pick and choose, prechoose, rechoose, right to choose, unchoose

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at choose. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at choose. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at choose

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA