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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
choose
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
arbitrarily chosen
▪ an arbitrarily chosen number
carefully planned/chosen/controlled etc
▪ carefully chosen words
choose a leader/choose sb as leader
▪ The party is meeting to choose a new leader.
choose a leader/choose sb as leader
▪ The party is meeting to choose a new leader.
choose a moment to do sth (=do something at a particular time)
▪ She always seemed to choose the worst moment to interrupt his thoughts.
choose an occupation
▪ Young people need help with choosing a suitable occupation.
choose an option
▪ Fewer women are choosing the option of motherhood.
choose/appoint a successor
▪ The Board met to choose his successor.
choose/order sth from the menu
▪ He ordered a chicken dish from the menu.
chosen by lot
▪ In Athens at that time, judges were chosen by lot.
sb’s chosen career
▪ His parents encouraged him in his chosen career as a scientist.
select/choose a candidate
▪ Taylor was selected as Tory candidate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.
▪ A few people carefully chosen, highly visible, whose deaths might be noticed.
▪ It is even possible to dissolve certain types of crystal if the foods used are special diets, carefully chosen by vets.
▪ The best suggestion when searching for a coworker-editor: choose carefully.
▪ He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
▪ Augmenting the club-like atmosphere are the carefully chosen dark wood paneling, beveled stained glass and forest-green carpets.
▪ I read every message and carefully choose ones which will appeal to a wide range of your fellow readers.
▪ The three Volunteers assigned to Huamanga had been carefully chosen by the Peace Corps staff.
■ NOUN
moment
▪ Disillusioned with managing the national team, Andy Beattie chose the most inappropriate moment to tender his resignation.
▪ The next step is inevitable, and the only thing that matters now is to choose the right moment.
▪ Buell Gallagher was not the leader City might have chosen for such a moment.
▪ She always chose that moment to talk about Durkin, and always in a disparaging way.
▪ Angry and hurt at the continuing racism and sexism at Columbia, Joanne speaks out but tries to choose her moments.
▪ But choosing that particular moment to do it was a rebuff as callous and shocking as a slap in the face.
▪ Perhaps we could have chosen a different moment.
name
▪ Artists who group together for financial reasons may choose a name which is no more explanatory than a number or numbers.
▪ When children are allowed to choose the name, Disney can have a big influence.
▪ Choose the Filter sub menu, then choose the name of your filter.
▪ I asked Redlin about choosing the name.
▪ When he published a small booklet last year offering advice on choosing a last name, it sold out immediately.
▪ Some choose names based on personal reasons.
▪ I choose that name to show its connection to a parallel ideal of personal morality.
▪ How did the Solomons choose their last name? 8.
option
▪ As the recession deepens, it is going to force the TECs into choosing between three undesirable options.
▪ Experience shows that it is above all the last option that was chosen.
▪ Only those who chose the last option survived.
▪ Members choose the option that best fits their Internet usage needs.
▪ We underestimated the amount of counselling required to ensure that students choose appropriate options.
▪ Once we choose an option and make personal commitments to each other, we have another new project.
▪ Most enterprises have to choose one of three options.
▪ Most of the time, all you need to do is choose the Extract Files option under the Unzip menu.
site
▪ Shipbuilding had always been important to Saltash, which was chosen as the site for a Royal Naval base and dockyard.
▪ If it is chosen, the underground site could start receiving canisters of waste in 2010, Olds said.
▪ He chose a site for an aviary and gave very exact and imperious directions as to the materials and measurements.
▪ The only significant discussion centered on criteria used by the commission to choose sites for the initial housing programs.
▪ A breeding pair will chose a site for spawning and defend it with typical cichlid aggression.
▪ The class had originally chosen a site directly across the highway from the school.
▪ We chose three sites within Dermakot that had been logged 10 years, four years and one year ago.
student
▪ We underestimated the amount of counselling required to ensure that students choose appropriate options.
▪ If no students chose to pray, the teacher was permitted to pray for a period of up to five minutes.
▪ These courses are recognised as preparation for professional registration and students can choose either general nursing or mental health nursing.
▪ Every day students choose a desk to serve as their home base and fill it with their supplies.
▪ A key feature of the module is that the programme should reflect activities and contexts which the student values and has chosen.
▪ One reason: a sharp drop in the number of undergraduate students choosing economics as a major.
▪ Each student may choose to concentrate on either Graphics or Photography.
▪ Deciding whether home-school students could choose to play at any public school or only the one in their attendance district.
woman
▪ In the end the woman chooses to renounce both men and sets out on her own path.
▪ This woman of noble birth chose to study philosophy rather than relish in her beauty.
▪ But it will defend equally vigorously the rights of women who choose to look after their children full-time.
▪ Agents said the women chosen as couriers mainly were in their 20s with middle-class appearances.
▪ Then men or women could choose what kind of contribution they are gong to make to all societies work.
▪ In this narrow framework, work and family do conflict, and therefore women must choose one.
▪ Perhaps women choose this style because it fits with their own, perfectly valid interactional or social goals.
▪ That is why women who refuse to choose often find themselves torn in two.
word
▪ To sum up, when looking for a choral text, choose words which are simple, direct, and poetic.
▪ Your editor should ask for your opinions, why you chose certain words or decided to include or omit information.
▪ In cases like this, the solution is to choose for teaching the words most likely to be needed by your pupils.
▪ Her carefully chosen words, and Hattie Crews's personal insight, moved the membership.
▪ I hope that I chose my words with some care.
▪ The officer asked it a second time, choosing different words, and exchanged a smile with the younger officer.
▪ Under her page boy haircut, her brow is knit; she tries to choose her words carefully.
▪ She is choosing her words so carefully that her friend can picture the dueling waves that she describes.
■ VERB
allow
▪ At Liverpool, the Principal was not allowed to choose his own secretary.
▪ Instead, tell them what needs to be done and the results desired. Allow them to choose the method.
▪ I sewed curtains and quilts and the boys were allowed to choose their own colour schemes and furnishings.
▪ When children are allowed to choose the name, Disney can have a big influence.
▪ They both allow people to choose their own time horizons, which can be anything from two to 25 years.
▪ This system allows for maximum flexibility, including interactive multimedia connections that allow each consumer to choose his or her own programs.
▪ He was equally tolerant when it came to allowing buyers to choose colours that would go with their interior decoration.
▪ Two years ago, the Public Utility Commission instituted a program allowing residents to choose their electricity supplier.
help
▪ Readers at Borders Books shops helped to choose the short list.
▪ Supplemental Help: A new device to help consumers choose nutritional supplements may be coming to a drugstore near you.
▪ We help women choose and use make- up.
▪ We hope that the pictures, done by Kathleen White, one of the authors, will help you in choosing lessons.
▪ Always visualise your audience when practising, as this will help you in choosing the right tone for your voice.
▪ In-house information technology people began to shift from building customized applications to helping their companies choose wisely among open systems vendors.
▪ At present I require assistance to help me to choose the most suitable occupation.
▪ The Palo Alto startup is quietly developing an online service that will help businesses and consumers choose and manage health plans.
pick
▪ It not only receives, it picks and chooses and processes all it receives.
▪ According to their ability they will be able to pick and choose which clues they will utilize and which they will ignore.
▪ At Thrush Green she would be able to pick and choose her employers.
▪ As the kids say, get real. Pick and choose how you spend your time and energy.
▪ That means picking and choosing his skipper's games to allow him the rest he needs these days.
▪ And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance.
▪ He could always pick and choose over whom to arrest and on whom to give the Nelson touch.
▪ They could pick and choose their jobs and charge high prices.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pick and choose
▪ You can't just pick and choose which laws you're going to follow.
▪ And so you can pick and choose and try to get the right mixture or balance.
▪ At Thrush Green she would be able to pick and choose her employers.
▪ But if you've got your own boat and you're not allergic to work, you can pick and choose.
▪ Friendlies are the easiest to start with, as you can pick and choose your opponents.
▪ He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
▪ Remember, however, to pick and choose your wheat berries according to type.
▪ There have been no secret meetings of the Democrat majority to pick and choose personnel.
▪ Unlike us correspondents, who could pick and choose our risks, they had no choice.
the (privileged/chosen) few
▪ A decade ago this was Checkpoint Charlie, one of the few gaps in an otherwise impenetrable barrier a hundred miles long.
▪ But then Jeffries said that that article was one of the few that had examined his ideas on the merits.
▪ Date palms are one of the few fruit trees that can be safely transplanted at full maturity.
▪ Hundreds of people could be seen walking along the roadside or waiting patiently for the few overcrowded buses.
▪ I had underlined the few shady connections which made it into the open.
▪ Stirling sensibly argued that it was illogical to form two new battalions when the few men he required were being denied him.
▪ The major drawback for all immigrant firms has been the difficulty in recruiting the few highly skilled key workers essential to production.
the chosen few
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Where do you want to go?" "You choose this time."
▪ A committee will be selected to choose the new leader.
▪ Companies are now using computers to help them choose new workers.
▪ Eventually, Jane was chosen to deliver the message.
▪ I can't decide what I want. You choose.
▪ I told him to drive more slowly, but he chose to ignore my advice.
▪ Import restrictions will reduce the number of cars buyers have to choose from.
▪ It took her three hours to choose which dress to wear.
▪ Many of the industries chosen for government investment have in fact already gone bankrupt.
▪ More and more young couples today are choosing not to marry.
▪ Seattle has been chosen as the venue for next year's conference.
▪ The board has unanimously chosen Cole as Gray's temporary replacement.
▪ The city chose a new mayor on Tuesday.
▪ The fabric that she chose to be made into a dress is a combination of silk and cotton.
▪ We have to choose between doing geography or studying another language.
▪ Why do so few women choose to become engineers?
▪ Will you help me choose a present for Warren?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And with so much wood in the room, a natural colour scheme has been chosen to complement it.
▪ Beattie has taken a big risk here by choosing to tell her tale through the wan and washed-out Jean.
▪ But which to choose from his marvellous output?
▪ He chose Armagh as his center of power.
▪ He could afford to take it easy and he picked and chose carefully whatever he wanted to do.
▪ We are a people who have chosen to deny poor children clothes, medicine and school supplies.
▪ We should not have to choose.
▪ You will need to choose trees that flower at the same time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Choose

Choose \Choose\, v. t. [imp. Chose; p. p. Chosen, Chose (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Choosing.] [OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ce['o]san; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kj[=o]sa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. ?, Skr. jush to enjoy. [root]46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust.]

  1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

    Choose me for a humble friend.
    --Pope.

  2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.]

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

    To choose sides. See under Side.

    Syn: Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow.

    Usage: To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress.

Choose

Choose \Choose\, v. i.

  1. To make a selection; to decide.

    They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion.
    --Prescott.

  2. To do otherwise. ``Can I choose but smile?''
    --Pope.

    Can not choose but, must necessarily.

    Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
    --Shak.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
choose

Old English ceosan "choose, seek out, select; decide, test, taste, try; accept, approve" (class II strong verb; past tense ceas, past participle coren), from Proto-Germanic *keus- (cognates: Old Frisian kiasa, Old Saxon kiosan, Dutch kiezen, Old High German kiosan, German kiesen, Old Norse kjosa, Gothic kiusan "choose," Gothic kausjan "to taste, test"), from PIE root *geus- "to taste, relish" (see gusto). Only remotely related to choice. Variant spelling chuse is Middle English, very frequent 16c.-18c. The irregular past participle leveled out to chosen by 1200.

Wiktionary
choose

Etymology 1 conj. (context mathematics English) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number. vb. 1 To pick; to make the choice of; to select. 2 To elect. 3 To decide to act in a certain way. 4 To wish; to desire; to prefer. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context dialectal or obsolete English) The act of choosing; selection. 2 (context dialectal or obsolete English) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election. 3 (context dialectal or obsolete English) scope for choice.

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WordNet
choose

  1. v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: take, select, pick out]

  2. select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast" [syn: prefer, opt]

  3. see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"

  4. [also: chosen, chose]

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Wikipedia
Choose

Choose may refer to:

  • Choice, the act of judging the merits of multiple options and selecting one of them for action
  • Binomial coefficient, a mathematical function describing number of possible selections of subsets ('seven choose two')
  • Morra, a hand game sometimes referred to as Choose
  • Choose (film), a crime horror film directed by Marcus Graves
  • "Choose", a song by Stone Sour from their Stone Sour album
  • "Choose", a song written by Lionel Bart performed by Matt Monro in United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964 covered by Sammy Davis Jr.
Choose (film)

Choose is a crime horror film that was released on May 15, 2010. The film was filmed in New York City.

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Usage examples of "choose".

They would have to ask the Stanhope to keep the village and the apes for them, which would make it a major inconvenience if they chose to stay in a different hotel.

Here he heard the occasional shots of the duelists, and choosing the safer and swifter avenue of the forest branches to the uncertain transportation afforded by a half-broken Abyssinian pony, took to the trees.

Her dress for the Garden-party, chosen to combine suitably with full academicals, lay, neatly folded, inside her suitcase.

But for a rival house to know that Mara had chosen to go personally to the slave market bespoke the presence of an informant very highly placed in Acoma ranks.

Then, if Acorus were to be chosen to host the master scepter, there would be more music, and plays, and a greater flowering of art and innovation.

Boston, Washington, out of modesty, had left the chamber, while a look of mortification, as Adams would tell the story, filled the face of John Hancock, who had hoped he would be chosen.

Samuel Locke, another from the class, was not only the youngest man ever chosen for the presidency of Harvard, but to Adams one of the best men ever chosen, irrespective of the fact that Locke had had to resign after only a few years in office, when his housemaid became pregnant.

But in 1765, the same year little Abigail was born and Adams found himself chosen surveyor of highways in Braintree, he was swept by events into sudden public prominence.

IN 1774, Adams was chosen by the legislature as one of five delegates to the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia, and with all Massachusetts on the verge of rebellion, he removed Abigail and the children again to Braintree, where they would remain.

The executive, the governor, should, Adams thought, be chosen by the two houses of the legislature, and for not more than a year at a time.

Then, in October, out of the blue, came word from Philadelphia that Adams had been chosen by Congress to return to France as minister plenipotentiary to negotiate treaties of peace and commerce with Great Britain, a position he had neither solicited nor expected.

As the calashes proved more uncomfortable than the mules, Adams, Dana, and Thaxter chose to go by mule most of the way.

When the electors met in February 1789, Washington was chosen President unanimously with 69 votes, while Adams, though well ahead of ten others, had 34 votes, or less than half.

Had Adams refrained from insulting the French, had he chosen more suitable envoys, the country would never have been brought to such a pass.

Washington had accepted his commission in an entirely cordial letter to Adams, but with the understanding that as head of the new army he could choose his own principal officers.