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語源 1

From 中期英語 cheosen, chesen, from 古期英語 ċēosan (“to choose, seek out, select, elect, decide, test, accept, settle for, approve”), from Proto-West Germanic *keusan, from Proto-Germanic *keusaną (“to taste, choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwseti, from *ǵews- (“to taste, try”).

Cognate with Scots chuise, cheese (“to choose”), North Frisian kese (“to choose”), Saterland Frisian kjoze (“to choose”), West Frisian kieze (“to choose”), Dutch kiezen (“to choose”), French choisir (“to choose”), Low German kesen (“to choose”), German Low German kiesen (“to pick, select”), archaic and partially obsolete German kiesen (“to choose”), Danish kyse (“to frighten (via ‘to charm, allure’ and ‘to enchant’)”), Norwegian kjose (“to choose”), Swedish tjusa (“to charm, allure, enchant”), Icelandic kjósa (“to choose, vote, elect”), Gothic 𐌺𐌹𐌿𐍃𐌰𐌽 (kiusan, “to test”), Latin gustō (“to taste, sample”), Ancient Greek γεύω (geúō, “to feed”), Sanskrit जोषति (jóṣati, “to like, enjoy”), Russian кушать (kúšatʹ, “to have a meal, to eat”).

発音

• enPR: cho͞oz, IPA: /t͡ʃuːz/
• Homophone: chews
• 韻: -uːz

動詞

choose (third-person singular simple present chooses, present participle choosing, simple past chose or (nonstandard) choosed, past participle chosen or (nonstandard) choosed or (now colloquial) chose)

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

   I chose a nice ripe apple from the fruit bowl.

   • 1739, [David Hume], “Of the Influencing Motives of the Will”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book II (Of the Passions), London: […] John Noon, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Will and Direct Passions), page 249:

     Secondly, VVhen in exerting any paſſion in action, vve chuſe means inſufficient for the deſign'd end, and deceive ourſelves in our judgment of cauſes and effects.

   • 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:

     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 prefer; to wish; to desire.
   • 1766, [Oliver Goldsmith], The Vicar of Wakefield: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Salisbury, Wiltshire: […] B. Collins, for F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC:

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

   • 2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Choose truth, and find beauty. Choose love, and embrace change.

使用する際の注意点

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• choice
• choosy
• chosen

接続詞

choose

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 ${\displaystyle {\tbinom {n}{k}}}$ or "n choose k".

参考

• Binomial coefficient on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

From 中期英語 chose, chos, chooce, a Northern dialectal form of 中期英語 chois (“choice”). Cognate with Scots chose, choose, chuse (“choosing, choice, selection”). Doublet of choice, which see for more.

名詞

choose (plural chooses)

1. (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The act of choosing; selection.
2. (obsolete, Northern England, Scotland) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “choose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “choose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Choose”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Cohoes, cohoes, ooches