decide
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decide
- /dɪˈsaɪd/
Rhymes with -aɪd
Where it comes from
From Middle English deciden, from Old French decider, from Latin dēcīdere, infinitive of dēcīdō (“cut off, decide”), from dē (“down from”) + caedō (“cut”).
verb decides · deciding · decided · decide
- To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle. The election will be decided on foreign policies.
- To make a judgment, especially after deliberation. You must decide between good and evil.
- To cause someone to come to a decision. Your admonition decided me against my intended course of action.
- Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input. No Turing Machine can decide the halting problem.
- To cut off; to separate. Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.
Similar: choose up, decide, determine, resolve, find, judge, posken, make a decision, make up one's mind, take a decision, work out
