• enPR: cho͞oz, IPA: /t͡ʃuːz/

choose (chooses, present participle choosing; past chose, past participle chosen)

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

   I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.

   • 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart; Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, OCLC 20230794 ↗, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwptej;view=1up;seq=5 page 01]:

     The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

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 wish; to desire; to prefer.

   Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change. ― Justin Deschamps

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

• choice
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• French: choisir
• German: wählen, auswählen
• Italian: scegliere, selezionare
• Portuguese: escolher
• Russian: выбира́ть
• Spanish: escoger

• French: élire
• German: wählen
• Italian: eleggere
• Portuguese: escolher
• Russian: выбира́ть
• Spanish: elegir

• French: décider
• German: entscheiden
• Italian: decidere
• Portuguese: escolher, escolher
• Russian: реша́ть
• Spanish: escoger, elegir

1. (mathematics) 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".

choose (plural chooses)

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