Tra từ choose - Từ điển WordNet v3.1

verb

1. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives (Freq. 80)
- 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
• Syn:
take, select, pick out
• Derivationally related forms:
selective (for: select), selection (for: select), selector (for: select)
• Hypernyms:
decide, make up one's mind, determine
• Hyponyms:
empanel, impanel, panel, anoint, field,
sieve, sift, draw, dial, plump, go,
pick, elect, excerpt, extract, take out, cull out,
winnow, cream off, skim off, sieve out, pick over, assign,
specify, set apart, single out, think of, set, determine,
define, fix, limit, adopt, follow, espouse,
espouse, screen out, sort, vote in, nominate,
propose, vote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s
- They choose him to write the letter
2. select as an alternative over another (Freq. 19)
- I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant
- She opted for the job on the East coast
• Syn:
prefer, opt
• Derivationally related forms:
optative (for: opt), option (for: opt), preferment (for: prefer), preference (for: prefer)
• Hyponyms:
opt out, cop out
• Entailment:
compare
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- They choose him to write the letter
3. see fit or proper to act in a certain way;
decide to act in a certain way (Freq. 11)
- She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam
• Hypernyms:
evaluate, pass judgment, judge
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE