choose

• "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"

Synonyms

• takethe income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption ; carry out; require (time or space); take somebody somewhere; get into one's hands, take physically; take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; interpret something in a certain way; take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; take into one's possession; travel or go by means of a certain kind of transportation, or a certain route; pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; receive willingly something given or offered; assume, as of positions or roles; take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; require as useful, just, or proper; experience or feel or submit to; make a film or photograph of something; remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; serve oneself to, or consume regularly; accept or undergo, often unwillingly; make use of or accept for some purpose; take by force; occupy or take on; admit into a group or community; ascertain or determine by measuring, computing or take a reading from a dial; be a student of a certain subject; take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; head into a specified direction; point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards; be seized or affected in a specified way; have with oneself; engage for service under a term of contract; receive or obtain regularly; buy, select; to get into a position of having, e.g., safety, comfort; have sex with; lay claim to; be designed to hold or take; be capable of holding or containing; develop a habit; proceed along in a vehicle; obtain by winning; be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
• selectof superior grade; selected or chosen for special qualifications; pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
• pick outpick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; detect with the senses

• "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"
• "She opted for the job on the East coast"

Synonyms

• preferlike better; select as an alternative over another; promote over another; give preference to one creditor over another
• optselect as an alternative over another

• "decide to act in a certain way"
• "She chose not to attend classes and now she failed the exam"