decide
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English deciden, from Old French decider, from Latin dēcīdere, infinitive of dēcīdō (“cut off, decide”), from dē (“down from”) + caedō (“cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: decides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deciding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: decide
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: decide
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: decide
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: decidest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: decidedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: decides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decideth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: decide
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: decide
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: decide
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: deciding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The election will be decided on foreign policies.
It was decided to meet here at midnight.
Her last-minute goal decided the game.
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show.
As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!
gloss: To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You must decide between good and evil.
I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
gloss: To cause someone to come to a decision.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your admonition decided me against my intended course of action.
It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.
gloss: Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input.
pos: verb
examples: No Turing Machine can decide the halting problem.
First, the hierarchy theorems tell us that a Turing machine can decide more languages in EXPSPACE than it can in PSPACE.
gloss: To cut off; to separate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.
Synonyms: choose up
decide
determine
find
judge
posken
make a decision
make up one's mind
take a decision
work out
Antonyms: jump to conclusions
rush to judgement
Related words: decider
decision
decisive
Derived words: decidability
decidable
decidement
decide on
decide upon
decidophobia
misdecide
predecide
redecide
undecide
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