choose

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To select from a number of possible alternatives; decide on and pick out.
2. v. To prefer above others: chooses the supermarket over the neighborhood grocery store.
3. v. To determine or decide: chose to fly rather than drive.
4. v. To make a choice; make a selection: was used to doing as she chose.
5. choose up To choose players and form sides or teams for a game, such as baseball or softball.
6. idiom. cannot choose but Can only do; cannot do otherwise: We cannot choose but to observe the rules.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To select from two or more; make a choice of in preference to another or others, or to something else.
2. To prefer and decide: with an infinitive as object: as, he chose to make the attack.
3. To prefer to have; be inclined or have a preference for.
4. Synonyms Choose, Prefer, Elect, Select, fix upon, pitch upon, adopt. Choose is the most general of these words, but always represents an act of the will; it is the taking of one or some where all are not wanted or cannot be had. Choice may be founded upon preference or modified by necessity. Prefer represents a verdict of the judgment or a state of the inclination; it emphasizes more than does choose the leaving of the rest: he who prefers apples to oranges will choose apples when he has the opportunity of choice; one may by inclination prefer to work at night, but, on grounds of health, choose to work only by day. Elect has an exact use in theology; its principal use otherwise is to express the choice of persons, by ballot or otherwise, for office, membership in societies, etc.: as, to be elected alderman or treasurer; to elect certain studies in a college is to choose them formally. Select represents a careful, discriminating choice.
5. To elect; make a choice; decide.
6. To prefer; desire; wish.— To have one's choice; do as one pleases.
7. To direct one's steps; choose one's way.

Wiktionary

1. v. To elect.
2. v. To pick.
3. v. To decide to act in a certain way.
4. conj. mathematics The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
5. n. The act of choosing; selection.
6. n. The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
7. n. Scope for choice.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect.
2. v. colloq. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
3. v. To make a selection; to decide.
4. v. To do otherwise.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way
2. v. select as an alternative over another
3. v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives