decide

[De*cide·]

To decide is to make up your mind to do (or not do) something. People decide hundreds of things a day, from what to eat to what TV shows to watch.

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To cut off; to separate.

Verb
reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"

Verb
bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"

Verb
cause to decide; "This new development finally decided me!"

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influence or determine; "The vote in New Hampshire often decides the outcome of the Presidential election"

v. t.
To cut off; to separate.

v. t.
To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.

v. i.
To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.

Decide

De*cide" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Decided; p. pr. & vb. n. Deciding.] [L. dec'c6dere; de- + caedere to cut, cut off; prob. akin to E. shed, v.: cf. F. d'82cider. Cf. Decision.] 1. To cut off; to separate. [Obs.]

Our seat denies us traffic here; The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.

2. To bring to a termination, as a question, controversy, struggle, by giving the victory to one side or party; to render judgment concerning; to determine; to settle.

So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.

Decide

De*cide", v. i. To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.

Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?

To cut off; to separate.

To determine; to form a definite opinion; to come to a conclusion; to give decision; as, the court decided in favor of the defendant.

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Usage Examples

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.

As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

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Other Usage Examples

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide.

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.