decide
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈsaɪd/
decide (decides, present participle deciding; past and past participle decided)
- (ambitransitive) to resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle
- The election will be decided on foreign policies.
- We must decide our next move.
- Her last-minute goal decided the game.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
- (intransitive) to make a judgment, especially after deliberation
- You must decide between good and evil.
- I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
- Bible, 1 Kings xx. 40
- So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
- (transitive) to cause someone to come to a decision
- 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, page 1537),
- It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.
- 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, page 1537),
- (obsolete) to cut off; to separate
- Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.
- French: décider
- German: entscheiden, beschließen
- Italian: decidere
- Portuguese: decidir
- Russian: реша́ть
- Spanish: decidir, resolver
- French: décider
- German: entscheiden, beschließen, festsetzen
- Portuguese: decidir
- Russian: реша́ть
- Spanish: decidir
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