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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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entrust
English
Alternative forms
- intrust
Etymology
en- +? trust
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t??st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Verb
entrust (third-person singular simple present entrusts, present participle entrusting, simple past and past participle entrusted)
- (transitive) To trust to the care of.
- Can I entrust you with a secret?
- He entrusted me his daughter.
- He entrusts that task to her.
Usage notes
See usage note at commit.
Translations
Anagrams
- Ruttens, nutters, test run, testrun, turnest
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