different between choose vs purchase

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)

1. 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.

2. To elect.

3. To decide to act in a certain way.

4. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
   • 2016, Justin Deschamps:

   • The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.

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

1. (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 ${\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{k}}}$ 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)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
2. (dialectal or obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
3. (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

English

Etymology

From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?t??s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??s/
• Hyphenation: pur?chase

Noun

purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)

1. The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.

2. That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
3. That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.

4. (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)

   • I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.

5. A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
   • 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords

     Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]

6. (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.

   Synonyms: contact, grip, hold

7. The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
8. (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.

   Synonyms: foothold, support
9. (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.

Derived terms

• purchase order
• repurchase

Translations

Verb

purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)

1. To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.

2. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.

   • that loves the thing he cannot purchase
3. To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.

   to purchase favor with flattery
4. To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
5. To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.

6. To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
   • 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles

     Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.

7. To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.

Synonyms

• (buy): procure

Derived terms

• purchasable
• purchasing agent
• purchasing power

Translations

Anagrams

• search up