Decide
[dɪ'saɪd]
Definition
(verb.) reach, make, or come to a decision about something; 'We finally decided after lengthy deliberations'.
(verb.) bring to an end; settle conclusively; 'The case was decided'; 'The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff'; 'The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance'.
(verb.) cause to decide; 'This new development finally decided me!'.
(verb.) influence or determine; 'The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election'.
Typist: Shelby--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut off; to separate.
(v. t.) To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.
(v. i.) To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.
Edited by Fergus
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Settle, conclude, terminate, end.
v. n. Determine, conclude, come to a conclusion, give a decision.
Edited by Amber
Definition
v.t. to determine: to end: to settle: to resolve.—adjs. Decid′able capable of being decided; Decid′ed determined: clear unmistakable: resolute.—adv. Decid′edly.
Editor: Michel
Unserious Contents or Definition
v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.
Checker: Mortimer
Examples
- I find from Riderhood and you together, that there are suspicions against both men, and I'm not going to take upon myself to decide betwixt them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It will decide my career, for if I have any genius, I shall find it out in Rome, and will do something to prove it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was the sum she had set aside to pacify her dress-maker--unless she should decide to use it as a sop to the jeweller. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is eminently mine to ask such questions, when I have to decide whether I will have transactions with you and accept your money. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This will decide it, said I to myself; for if he says anything is excellent, or charming, or capital, that His Grace utters, I know what I will do. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But there is a decided grouping of valuable metals, and these can then be readily separated by means of electricity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I decided to go on upstairs. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- But the light of that day's discovery, shining on these considerations, roused him to take a more decided course of action. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- When you go out close the door, for there is a decided draught. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- After some consideration I decided on writing to the Arnolds, in Yorkshire. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But about other matters, do you know, I have often a difficulty in deciding. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And it's the difficulty of deciding that makes her such an interesting study. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mr. Hale was utterly listless, and incapable of deciding on anything. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I came to you, my sweet, the moment I saw the doubt, and the necessity of deciding. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I'm so silly that I liked to think no one knew, and while I was deciding what to say, I felt like the girls in books, who have such things to do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was only giving importance to what happened to you if you were caught that made it difficult; that and deciding whom to trust. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That decides that, Robert Jordan thought to himself. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If her debts press, and she decides on sending it away, then we have our man ready, and we meet the Moonstone on its arrival in London. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- H'm--have you considered the consequences if she decides for divorce? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He stops hard by Waterloo Bridge and reads a playbill, decides to go to Astley's Theatre. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I was spared the disgrace of appearing publicly as a criminal, as the case was not brought before the court that decides on life and death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- One is that they may be spun out almost interminably, even, possibly, to the end of the life of the patent; the other is that the judge who decides the case does not see the witnesses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But, however much you two men fight for her, remember it is the lady herself who decides whom she will take. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Tess