Choose
[tʃuːz] or [tʃuz]
Definition
(verb.) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; 'Take any one of these cards'; 'Choose a good husband for your daughter'; 'She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her'.
(verb.) select as an alternative over another; 'I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant'; 'She opted for the job on the East coast'.
(verb.) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; 'She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam'.
Edited by Kitty--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.
(v. t.) To wish; to desire; to prefer.
(v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.
(v. i.) To do otherwise.
Checker: Mollie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Select, elect, prefer, cull, pick, pick out, single out, fix upon, pitch upon, catch at, make choice of.
Checker: Marie
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Select, elect, prefer, appropriate, adopt, cull, pick_out
ANT:Leave, dismiss, reject, refuse, disclaim, repudiate, ignore, decline
Typed by Dominic
Definition
v.t. to take one thing in preference to another: to select.—v.i. to will or determine: to think fit:—pa.t. chōse; pa.p. chōs′en.—ns. Choos′er (Shak.) one who chooses; Choos′ing choice: selection.—Cannot choose can have no alternative.—Not much to choose between each about equally bad.—Pick and choose to select with care.
Editor: Vito
Examples
- She did not choose it, said her daughter, she would go. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I asked Caddy what had made their parents choose this profession for them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Besides, I choose to please myself by sharing an idea that at this moment beams in your mother's eye while she looks at you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There's as many as six, you see, to choose from. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I did not choose to ask any further questions, but turned abruptly away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The hours are your own to choose, after you've done for the day with your house here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the mean time Ryland had been chosen Protector. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What a wrong, to cut off the girl from the family protection and inheritance only because she had chosen a man who was poor! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Carriages and horses were provided for all; captains and under officers chosen, and the whole assemblage wisely organized. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Whether truth--be it religious or moral truth--speak eloquently and in well-chosen language or not, its voice should be heard with reverence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He chose the trade of a lapidary, or polisher of precious stones, an art which in that age was held in almost as high esteem as that of the painter or sculptor. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- We have gone whithersoever we chose, to-day, and have met with nothing but the kindest attentions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Those who chose to be idle, certainly might. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Here was an opportunity for carrying out his new system with effect, if he chose to improve it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not that I like humouring Moore; but whatever I do I'll be paid for, and in coin of my own choosing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They're the board's choosing, sir,' returned the matron. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Choosing a moment when none seemed near, Tarzan hastened to his bundle of arrows beneath the great tree at the end of the village street. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- If your mistress wants a maid, she shall have one of my choosing. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Their reason for choosing so unusual an hour for a consultation was obviously to insure that there should be no other patient in the waiting-room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- A new period of mortal life has begun, and you may choose what divinity you please; the responsibility of choosing is with you--God is blameless. Plato. The Republic.
- Let not him who chooses first be careless, and let not the last despair. Plato. The Republic.
- They cannot force a man to take stamps who chooses to do without them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There is no law in this country for that; I can't hold you for my wife, if he chooses to part us. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Probably not; but Mr. Darcy can please where he chooses. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He is a brilliant fellow when he chooses to work--one of the brightest intellects of the university; but he is wayward, dissipated, and unprincipled. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Why shouldn't she be conspicuous if she chooses? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Typist: Nigel