Crossword clues for choosing
choosing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of making a choice. vb. (present participle of choose English)
Usage examples of "choosing".
But I had travelled no more than several revolutions of the fauteuil when the old despair of before choosing this no-skull creature rose up once again inside me.
She skipped over the sibling inÂfighting and petty arguments, choosing to remember only Britt's patience and kindness.
She'd stopped hanging out in the hotel bar after hours, choosing instead to read over her notes and try to prepare for the coming day's assignments.
He could've told her that choosing not to participate didn't matter one bit in the big picture.
The time of Choosing, when the boys of the town and keep were taken into apprenticeship, was close, and Pug became excited as he said, "This Midsummer's Day I hope to take the Duke's service under Swordmaster Fannon.
At his time for the Choosing, he had been placed directly with the old Huntmaster by the Duke, rather than standing before the assembled Craftmasters with the other boys his age.
Megar had glossed over the fact that many fishers' and farmers' sons forsook the choosing, electing to follow their fathers.
Pug wondered if Megar was so removed from his own Choosing he couldn't remember that the boys who were not chosen would stand before the assembled company of Craftmasters, householders, and newly chosen apprentices, under their gaze until the last name was called and they were dismissed in shame.
The Duke turned back to those who stood waiting for the Choosing to end.
I am weak and, in pain, see all is pointless: I do not see the meaning of choosing to fight.
Worst for choosing to love was the cerebro-and-spinal fluids which dribbled at all times from her distending oral cavity.
I would roll into the fraying of battle for my despoiled nation, for now I saw the point not of winning but of choosing merely to fight.
Without her to choose over myself, there was only pain and not choosing, rolling drunkenly and making fantasies of death.
It was totally unclear what Ewell wanted from Gately or why he was choosing this particular time to share.
It's not at all evident why Day's choosing to share this stuff with a mute and feverishly semiconscious Gately.