English > choose: 3 senses > verb 1, cognitionMeaning | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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Model | They choose him to write the letter |
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Example | "Choose a good husband for your daughter" |
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Synonyms | take, select, pick out |
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Entailed by | buy, purchase | Obtain by purchase |
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Narrower | adopt, follow, espouse | choose and follow |
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anoint | Choose by or as if by divine intervention |
assign, specify, set apart | select something or someone for a specific purpose |
cream off, skim off | pick the best |
cull out, winnow | select desirable parts from a group or list |
dial | choose by means of a dial |
draw | select or take in from a given group or region |
elect | choose |
elect | select by a vote for an office or membership |
empanel, impanel, panel | select from a list |
excerpt, extract, take out | take out of a literary work in order to cite / cite or copy |
field | select (a team or individual player) for a game / game / game |
nominate, propose | Put forward |
pick | select carefully from a group |
plump, go | Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number |
screen, screen out, sieve, sort | Examine in order to test suitability |
sieve, sift | distinguish and separate out |
sieve out, pick over | separate or remove |
single out | select from a group |
specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit | decide upon or fix definitely |
think of | choose in one's mind |
vote | Express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution |
vote in | elect in a voting process |
Broader | decide, make up one's mind, determine | reach, make, or come to a decision about something |
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Spanish | coger, decantar, elegir, escoger, optar, seleccionar, tomar, triar |
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Catalan | decantar, elegir, escollir, optar, seleccionar, triar |
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English > choose: 3 senses > verb 2, cognitionMeaning | select as an alternative over another. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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Model | They choose him to write the letter |
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Example | "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant" |
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Synonyms | prefer, opt |
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Entails | compare | Examine and note the similarities or differences of |
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Narrower | opt out, cop out | choose not to do something, as out of fear of failing |
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Spanish | decantar, elegir, escoger, optar, preferir, seleccionar, triar |
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Catalan | decantar, elegir, optar, preferir, seleccionar, triar |
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