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choose
English
Alternative forms
- chuse (obsolete)
Etymology 1
From Middle English chosen, chesen, from Old English ??osan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusan? (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *?éwseti, from *?ews- (“to taste, try”).
Cognate with Scots chose, chese (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gust? (“I taste, sample”), Ancient Greek ???? (geú?, “to feed”), Sanskrit ????? (jó?ati, “to like, enjoy”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: cho?oz, IPA(key): /t??u?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
- Homophone: chews
Verb
choose (third-person singular simple present chooses, present participle choosing, simple past chose or (nonstandard) choosed, past participle chosen or (nonstandard) choosed or (now colloquial) chose)
- To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- 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.
- To elect.
- To decide to act in a certain way.
- To wish; to desire; to prefer.
- 2016, Justin Deschamps:
- The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
- 2016, Justin Deschamps:
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Conjugation
Related terms
- choice
- choosey
- chosen
Translations
Conjunction
choose
- (mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
- The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is or "n choose k".
See also
- Binomial coefficient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English chose, chos, chooce, from chosen (“to choose”). Cognate with Scots chose (“choosing, choice, selection”).
Noun
choose (plural chooses)
- (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
- (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
- (dialectal or obsolete) Scope for choice.
References
- choose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- choose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Anagrams
- Cohoes, cohoes, ooches
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delegate
English
Etymology
From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin d?l?g?tus.
Pronunciation
- Noun
- enPR: d?l??-g?t, IPA(key): /?d?l???t/
- Verb
- enPR: d?l??-g?t', IPA(key): /?d?l???e?t/
Noun
delegate (plural delegates)
- a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
- a representative at a conference, etc.
- (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
- (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deputy
Hypernyms
Derived terms
- (computing): delegate-type
Related terms
- (computing): function pointer
Translations
Verb
delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)
- to authorize someone to be a delegate
- to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
- (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own
Translations
Italian
Adjective
delegate
- feminine plural of delegato
Noun
delegate f
- plural of delegata
Verb
delegate
- second-person plural present indicative of delegare
- second-person plural imperative of delegare
- feminine plural of delegato
Latin
Verb
d?l?g?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of d?l?g?
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- what delegates supported the virginia plan
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