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choose | American Dictionary

choose
verb[ I/T ]
us/tʃuz/past tensechoseus/tʃoʊz/ | past participlechosenus/ˈtʃoʊ·zən/
to think about which one of several things is the one you want, and take the action to get it:
[ T ]Parents can choose the schools that they want their kids to go to.
[ I ]I can’t choose - I like both lamps.
[ + to infinitive ]On this issue, Congress chose to fight the president.
[ I ]There was not much to choose between them (= They are similar).
[ + question word ]You can choose what you like and we’ll send it to you.

Examples of choose

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The user interaction in the environment allows for choosing the order in which samples will be played, represented by the shapes.
Consider now the boundary c=0, where b is chosen so as to satisfy (19).
When choosing the number of children, couples do not take into account the capital dilution nor the intergenerational transfer effect.
We chose a cumulative figure to represent moneys gained over the 3-year project.
To solve this functional conflict between better adaptability of the system and a worse dynamical balance, the appropriate control strategy has to be chosen.
Once the strategies have been chosen, they are used for on-line motion using a local and reactive planning algorithm.
In order to have a good response, appropriate d min and d max must be chosen.
At this point, one of the joints will be chosen as the initial slow joint.
Is choosing to do what one knows to be evil a genuine exercise of power ?
Had he chosen the other, he would have been equally praiseworthy.
I will claim that there could be worlds that are culled but not chosen.
In our case, the manoeuvrability of the compactor being rather limited, we have chosen the first solution.
I have chosen to do that, the doing of which will make me blameworthy.
In this paper the mathematical model fitted to the data was chosen empirically.
We examined two randomly chosen plots per farm on 3 days for a total of six samples per field.
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