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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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steal
English
Etymology
From Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan, from Proto-Germanic *stelan? (compare West Frisian stelle, Low German stehlen, Dutch stelen, German stehlen, Danish stjæle, Swedish stjäla,Norwegian stjele); see below for more.
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?l, IPA(key): /sti?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophones: steel, stele
Verb
steal (third-person singular simple present steals, present participle stealing, simple past stole, past participle stolen or (nonstandard, colloquial) stole)
- (transitive) To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else.
- "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
- (transitive, of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement.
- (transitive) To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully.
- Variety of objects has a tendency to steal away the mind too often from its steady pursuit of any subject.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Great Place
- Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, […] and do not think to steal it.
- (transitive, colloquial) To acquire at a low price.
- (transitive) To draw attention unexpectedly in (an entertainment), especially by being the outstanding performer. Usually used in the phrase steal the show.
- (intransitive) To move silently or secretly.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- "Did he take his bottle well?" Mrs. Flanders whispered, and Rebecca nodded and went to the cot and turned down the quilt, and Mrs. Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning. The window shook, and Rebecca stole like a cat and wedged it.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Ch.1:
- (transitive) To convey (something) clandestinely.
- To withdraw or convey (oneself) clandestinely.
- They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.
- (transitive, baseball) To advance safely to (another base) during the delivery of a pitch, without the aid of a hit, walk, passed ball, wild pitch, or defensive indifference.
- (sports, transitive) To dispossess
- (informal, transitive) To borrow for a short moment.
Synonyms
- (to illegally take possession of): See Thesaurus:steal
- (to secretly move): sneak
Antonyms
- (acquire licitly) receive, purchase, buy, earn
- (provide freely) donate, bestow, grant
Troponyms
- shoplift
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- burglarize
- burgle
- confiscate
- pickpocket
- pilfer
- steal away
Noun
steal (plural steals)
- The act of stealing.
- A piece of merchandise available at a very attractive price.
- At this price, this car is a steal.
- (basketball, ice hockey) A situation in which a defensive player actively takes possession of the ball or puck from the opponent's team.
- (baseball) A stolen base.
- (curling) Scoring in an end without the hammer.
- (computing) A policy in database systems that a database follows which allows a transaction to be written on nonvolatile storage before its commit occurs.
Synonyms
- (merchandise available at a very attractive price): (great / real / very good) bargain
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Astle, ETLAs, Slate, Teals, Tesla, astel, laste, lates, least, leats, salet, setal, slate, stale, stela, taels, tales, teals, telas, tesla
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