CHOSE
CHOOSE
choose, take, select, pick out
(verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; “Take any one of these cards”; “Choose a good husband for your daughter”; “She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her”
choose, prefer, opt
(verb) select as an alternative over another; “I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant”; “She opted for the job on the East coast”
choose
(verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way; “She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
chose
simple past tense of choose
(now, colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
Etymology 2
Noun
chose (plural choses)
(legal) A thing; personal property.
Anagrams
• Choes, HCEOs, So-ch'e, choes, echos, oches
Noun
CHOSE (uncountable)
(management) Acronym of confidence, hope, optimism, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence.
Anagrams
• Choes, HCEOs, So-ch'e, choes, echos, oches
Source: Wiktionary
Chose, n.; pl. Choses. Etym: [F., fr. L. causa cause, reason. See
Cause.] (Law)
Definition: A thing; personal property. Chose in action, a thing of which
one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it,
or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at
the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to
possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover
money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be
enforced against a reluctant party without suit.
– Chose in possession, a thing in possession, as distinguished from
a thing in action.
– Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill.
– Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.
Chose,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Choose.
CHOOSE
Choose, v. t. [imp. Chose; p. p. Chosen, Chose (Obs.); p. pr. & vb.
n. Choosing.] Etym: [OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ceĂłsan; akin to OS.
kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kjosa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare
to taste, Gr. jush to enjoy. *46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust.]
1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from
two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two
evils.
Choose me for a humble friend. Pope.
2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.]
The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel
apartment. Goldsmith.
To choose sides. See under Side.
Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow.
– To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and
denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in
accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or
favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another,
or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to
choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc.,
especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of
electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public
one; to elect members of Congress.
Choose, v. i.
1. To make a selection; to decide.
They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open
rebellion. Prescott.
2. To do otherwise. "Can I choose but smile" Pope. Can not choose
but, must necessarily.
Thou canst not choose but know who I am. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition