# decider
## English
### Etymology

From decide +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /dɪˈsaɪdə(ɹ)/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

### Noun

decider (plural deciders)
* (of a controversy, question, etc) A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
** 1667, anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
    This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
** 1758, Aaron Leaming, Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey, Philadelphia, page 680:The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
** 1885, Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica, vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
    The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider" (Entschneider).
** 1967 March 15, David P. Gauthier, “How Decisions are Caused”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 64, number 5, page 151:Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
** 2006 April 18, George W. Bush, quotee, “President Bush Announces Appointment of New Budget Director”, in Washington Post‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2018-06-28:I have strong confidence in Don Rumsfeld. I hear the voices. And I read the front page. And I know the speculation. But I'm the decider and I decide what is best.
** 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:As noted, the frontal cortex is central to executive function. To quote George W. Bush, within the frontal cortex, it's the PFC that is “the decider.”
* (chiefly British, Australia, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
** 2007 February 10, William Fotheringham, “France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Four years on, France […] will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool in September 21 in Paris.
** 2007 February 22, Kevin McCarra, “Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:[…] when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider.
** 2021 December 27, “Gerwyn Price beats Kim Huybrechts in fiery clash to keep title defence alive”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:Tensions threatened to boil over before the defending champion Gerwyn Price eventually overcame Kim Huybrechts in a sudden-death decider to reach the last 16 of the PDC World Championship.
* (computer science) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.

#### Synonyms

* decisor
* decisionmaker

#### Translations
### References

* “decider”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* decried, cidered, Creddie

## Interlingua
### Etymology

From English decide, French décider, Italian decidere, Spanish decidir and Portuguese decidir, all ultimately from Latin dēcīdere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /de.t͡siˈder/

### Verb

decider
* to decide

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | decider | decider |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | decidente | decidite |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | decide | ha decidite |
| active | past | decideva | habeva decidite |
| active | future | decidera | habera decidite |
| active | conditional | deciderea | haberea decidite |
| active | imperative | decide | |
| passive | | simple | perfect |
| passive | present | es decidite | ha essite decidite |
| passive | past | esseva decidite | habeva essite decidite |
| passive | future | essera decidite | habera essite decidite |
| passive | conditional | esserea decidite | haberea essite decidite |
| passive | imperative | sia decidite | |