choose

1. 1

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

   • I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.
2. 2

   To elect.

   • He was chosen as president in 1990.
3. 3

   To decide to act in a certain way.

   • I chose to walk to work today.
4. 4

   To prefer; to wish; to desire.

   • The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
   • Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.

syn. accept · adopt · appoint · cast · choose · crave · decide · designate · desire · determine · elect · embrace

ant. compel · constrain · deny · forbid · refuse

1. 1

   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".

1. 1

   The act of choosing; selection.Northern-EnglandScotlandobsolete

2. 2

   The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.Northern-EnglandScotlandobsolete