choose
Part of speech: verb
conj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to test; to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti (“to choose, taste”), from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten”), Faroese and Icelandic kjósa (“to vote; to elect; to choose; to prefer”), Norwegian Nynorsk kjosa, kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm; to bewitch”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), French choisir (“to choose”); also Breton diuz (“to choose”), Cornish and Welsh dewis (“to choose”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed; to taste; to eat; to try; to enjoy”), Czech zkoušet (“to taste; to examine; to rehearse”), Polish kuszać (“to eat”), Russian кушать (kušatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”), Serbo-Croatian ку̏шати, kȕšati (“to taste; to test”), Ukrainian ку́шати (kúšaty, “to taste; to eat”), куштува́ти (kuštuváty, “to taste”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬊𐬱𐬀 (zaoša, “pleasure”), Baluchi and Pashto دوست (dost, “friend”), Northern Kurdish and Zazaki dost (“friend”), Persian دوسْت (dōst / dust, “friend; boyfriend or girlfriend; loved”), Sanskrit जुषते (juṣate, “to enjoy”).
Inflected forms:
form: chooses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: choosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: past
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
form: chosen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: choose
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: choose
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
nonstandard
past
singular
form: choose
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: choosest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
second-person
singular
form: chosest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: choosedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: chooses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chooseth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
singular
third-person
form: choose
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
plural
form: choose
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
past
subjunctive
form: choose
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: choosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chosen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: choosed
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
participle
past
form: chose
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
participle
past
form: chuse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: chuse
pos: conj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
pos: verb
examples: I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.
The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
gloss: To elect.
pos: verb
examples: He was chosen as president in 1990.
gloss: To decide to act in a certain way.
pos: verb
examples: I chose to walk to work today.
gloss: To prefer; to wish; to desire.
pos: verb
examples: The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.
gloss: The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
pos: conj
examples: The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is tbinom nk or "n choose k".
Synonyms: accept
adopt
appoint
cast
choose
crave
decide
designate
desire
determine
elect
embrace
espouse
excerpt
extract
favor
opt
pick
poll
predestine
preponderate
prefer
separate
select
settle
single out
vote
winnow
Antonyms: compel
constrain
deny
forbid
refuse
Related words: choice
choosy
chosen
Derived words: choosability
choosable
chooseable
choose cone
choose one's battles
choose one's fighter
choose out
chooser
choose sides
choose the wrong horse
choose up
choose violence
choose-your-own-adventure
choose your own adventure
choosingly
cut and choose
divide and choose
forechoose
I choose violence
mischoose
nothing to choose between
pick and choose
prechoose
rechoose
right to choose
unchoose
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: wybierać
lang: Polish
word: wybrać