choice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔɪs/
ipa: /t͡ʃojs/
ipa: /t͡ʃɒɪs/
note: Dublin
ipa: /t͡ʃäɪs/
rhymes: -ɔɪs
Forms: form: choices
form: choise
form: choyse
Etymology: From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *causīre (“to choose”), from Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijaną, from *keusaną (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ċēosan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.
Senses: examples: text: Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?
text: Libertarian paternalism is the view that, because the way options are presented to citizens affects what they choose, society should present options in a way that “nudges” our intuitive selves to make choices that are more consistent with what our more deliberative selves would have chosen if they were in control.
ref: 2012 January 24, Steven Sloman, “The Battle Between Intuition and Deliberation”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2012, page 74:
glosses: An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
examples: text: She didn't leave us much choice.
text: For he is also the political leader of the nation, or has it in his choice to be.
ref: 1907, Woodrow Wilson, Constitutional Government in the United States, page 68:
glosses: The power to choose.
examples: text: The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.
glosses: One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
examples: text: You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate.
glosses: Anything that can be chosen.
examples: text: The flower and choice / Of many provinces from bound to bound.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 3:
glosses: The best or most preferable part.
raw_tags: with the
examples: text: I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC:
text: We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.
ref: 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Part I, Section I, p. 1:
glosses: Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
examples: text: And, which is more, she is not so divine, / So full replete with choice of all delights
ref: c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, act 5, scene 5, lines 17–18:
glosses: A sufficient number to choose among.
examples: text: 5. ZF* is the theory obtained from the aforementioned axiomatics (without choice) by adding the Axiom of Inaccessible Cardinals to be explained in the next secion; similarly, we get ZFC*.
ref: 2016 July 15, Decio Krause, Jonas R.B. Arenhart, The Logical Foundations of Scientific Theories: Languages, Structures, and Models (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Physics), Routledge, →ISBN, page 51:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Ellipsis of axiom of choice.
Synonyms: sense: selection or preference
word: option
word: possibility
word: option
sense: anything that can be chosen
word: assortment
sense: anything that can be chosen
word: range
sense: anything that can be chosen
word: selection
sense: definite: best or most preferable part
word: the cream
sense: sufficient number to choose among
word: abundance
word: profusion
word: cornucopia
Derived terms: agreement on the choice of court
anti-choice
axiom of countable choice
choice feminism
choiceful
choice function
choiceless
choicely
choiceness
choice of court agreement
choice of forum agreement
choice of forum clause
choice theory
choice word
choiceworthy
choicy
dealer's choice
discrete choice analysis
drug of choice
fielder's choice
first choice
for choice
forechoice
freedom of choice
Hercules' choice
Hobson's choice
intertemporal choice
leave someone no choice
lexical choice
life choice
mischoice
multichoice
multiple-choice
multiple choice question
multiple-choice question
nonchoice
non-choice
of choice
of one's choice
overchoice
prechoice
pro-choice
ranked choice
rational choice theory
sailor's-choice
Sophie's choice
spoiled for choice
spoilt for choice
subchoice
unchoice
you pays your money and you takes your choice
you pays your nickel and you takes your choice
Related terms: choose
choosey
chosen