choose 
choose (c̸ho̵̅o̅z)
transitive verb chose, cho′·sen, choos′·ing
- to pick out by preference from what is available; take as a choice; select to choose a book at the library
- to decide or prefer: with an infinitive object to choose to remain
Etymology: ME chesen, cheosen < OE ceosan < IE base *ĝeus-, to taste, relish > L gustare, Goth kausjan
intransitive verb
- to make one's selection
- to have the desire or wish; please do as you choose
cannot choose but
cannot do otherwise than; be compelled
choose up
Informal to decide on the opposing players, as for an impromptu ballgame
choose
v.
To select
decide on, pick, take, pick out, draw lots, cull, prefer, make a choice of, elect, vote for, opt for, accept, weigh, judge, sort, appoint, cast, embrace, will, call for, take up, excerpt, extract, separate, favor, exercise, determine, resolve, discriminate, make a decision, adopt, co-opt, engage, collect, mark out for, cut out, arrange, keep, make one's choice, make one's selection, pick and choose, settle on, use one's discretion, determine upon, fix on, fix upon, place one's trust in, glean, single out, espouse, exercise one's choice, exercise one's option, make up one's mind, set aside, set apart, commit oneself, divide the sheep from the goats, separate the wheat from the tares, separate the wheat from the chaff, incline toward, cast one's lot with, take for better or for worse, burn one's bridges, take to one's bosom, go with*; see also decide.To like
Object
- option: The final year research project will also be in the chosen option.
- topic: Choose a topic from the menu below or click continue to find out how to set a credit limit.
- module: The first cluster chose the module because they thought it would be easy or they could gain a high mark.
- path: It is then up to you to choose the path you wish to take.
- career: A summer placement, before my final year, helped me choose a career in process chemistry.
- password: Simply register your credit card and choose a password.
Used with why or when
- which: Please note you cannot choose which item you wish to be exempt from.
- whichever: You can choose whichever way works best for you.
- who: The department can determine how to choose who shall receive the prize.
- where: He should have the right to choose where he invests this extra money.
- what: Logic approach for you chose what much for the.
Infinitive complement
- ignore: But have you ever thought about this - what if others choose to ignore the sirens and lights?
- stay: Choose to stay in our bed and breakfast accommodation or our self catering bothy.
- live: The question is whether there are any limits to the values by which we should choose to live.
- opt: You may choose to opt out of making any information public at any time by notifying the administrator.
Present participle complement
- accord: These can take the form of technical seminars or workshops, with topics chosen according to industrial demand.
Preposition: from
- selection: Choose from a huge selection of Hotels, Motels & Resorts.
- variety: At www.recyclingappeal.com you can choose from a variety of charities to benefit from your old mobile or empty cartridges.
- menu: Guests can choose either the set Christmas party menu or with prior arrangement choose from a festive table d'hote menu.
- range: Options may also be chosen from the wide range listed below.
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my countryand betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Choose you this day whom ye will serve but as for me and my house, we will serve the L.
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb.We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forcedöby what? Bya system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.
Vous e" tes libre, choisissez, c'est-a' -dire, inventez. Aucune morale ge¤ ne¤ rale ne peut vous indiquer ce qu'il y a a' faire. You are free, therefore chooseöthat is to say, invent. No rule of general moralitycan show you what you ought to do.
Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwistöslack they may beöthese last strands of man In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Cansomething, hope, wish daycome, not choose not to be.
Were I (who to my loss already am One of those strange prodigious creatures, Man) A spirit, free to choose for my own share What case of flesh and blood I'd choose to wear, I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear.
I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest, where all must lose Their way, however straight Or winding, soon or late; They cannot choose.
A woman can hardly ever chooseshe is dependent on what happens to her. She must take meaner things, because only meaner things are within her reach.
How few of his friends' houses would a man choose to be at when he is sick.
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