choose
//t͡ʃuːz//
Forms
- present (v1)
- choose
- past (v2)
- chose
- past participle (v3)
- chosen
- present participle
- choosing
- 3rd person singular
- chooses
Definitions
1.To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
- I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
2.To elect.
- He was chosen as president in 1990.
3.To decide to act in a certain way.
- I chose to walk to work today.
4.To prefer; to wish; to desire.
- Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.
- The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
1.The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
- The number of distinct subsets of size k from a set of size n is tbinom nk or "n choose k".
Frequency
Overall
Common· #561
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English chesen, from Old English ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to test; to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti (“to choose, taste”), from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).