choose

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to select as an alternative over another

   I always choose the fish over the meat courses at this restaurant.

2. 2
   verb

   To pick; to make the choice of; to select.

   I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.

3. 3
   verb

   To elect.

   He was chosen as president in 1990.

4. 4
   verb

   To decide to act in a certain way.

   I chose to walk to work today.

5. 5
   verb

   To prefer; to wish; to desire.

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

6. 6
   conj

   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".

7. 7
   verb

   to pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives

8. 8
   verb

   to see fit or proper to act in a certain way

Etymology

From Middle English cheosen, 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 taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”). Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and p…