different between elect vs chose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?l?ctus, past participle of ?lig? (“to pick out, choose, elect”), from ?- (“out”) + leg? (“to pick out, pick, gather, collect, etc.”); see legend.

Cognate to eclectic, which is via Ancient Greek rather than Latin, hence prefix ?? (ek), rather than e- (from ex).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?kt/, /i??l?kt/
• Hyphenation: elect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

elect (plural elects or elect)

1. One chosen or set apart.
2. (theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.

   • Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.

   • Shall not God avenge his won elect?

Antonyms

• reprobate

Derived terms

• president-elect

Translations

Verb

elect (third-person singular simple present elects, present participle electing, simple past and past participle elected)

1. (transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something)
2. (transitive) To choose (a candidate) in an election

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

elect (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.

   He is the President elect.
2. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
   • the elect angels

Translations

Further reading

• elect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• elect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ch?z, IPA^(key): /t???z/
• (US) enPR: ch?z, IPA^(key): /t?o?z/
• Rhymes: -??z

Verb

chose

1. simple past tense of choose
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose

Etymology 2

From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.

Noun

chose (plural choses)

1. (law) A thing; personal property.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Choes, HCEOs, So-ch'e, choes, echos, oches

French

Etymology

From Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oz/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [?ou?z]
• Rhymes: -oz

Noun

chose f (plural choses)

1. thing

   Synonym: truc

   • 1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté, Essais

     Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.

     The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.

Descendants

• ? German: Chose

Derived terms

Further reading

• “chose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• échos

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chose, cose.

Noun

chose f (plural choses)

1. thing

Descendants

• French: chose

Norman

Alternative forms

• (Saint Ouen) chôthe

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Adjective

chose m or f

1. (Jersey) self-conscious

Old French

Alternative forms

• cosa (very early Old French)
• cose (chiefly Old Northern French)

Etymology

From earlier cose, cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Compare cause.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t??.z?]

Noun

chose f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)

1. thing (miscellaneous object or concept)

Descendants

• Middle French: chose
  • French: chose
• Walloon: tchôze