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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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doom
English
Etymology
From Middle English dome, dom, from Old English d?m (“judgement”), from Proto-Germanic *d?maz, from Proto-Indo-European *d?óh?mos. Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du?m/
- Rhymes: -u?m
Noun
doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)
- Destiny, especially terrible.
- An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
- A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
- (countable, obsolete) A law.
- (countable, obsolete) A judgment or decision.
- (countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
- 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
- The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
- 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
- Death.
- They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
- (sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or, an artistic representation thereof.
Antonyms
- (undesirable fate): fortune
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- deem
- -dom
Translations
Verb
doom (third-person singular simple present dooms, present participle dooming, simple past and past participle doomed)
- (transitive) To pronounce judgment or sentence on; to condemn.
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
- To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
- (obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
- (obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
- (archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
Translations
See also
- doomsday
- doomsaying
- damn
Anagrams
- Odom, mood
Wolof
Pronunciation
Noun
doom (definite form doom ji)
- child, offspring
- seed
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