choose

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To select from a number of possible alternatives; decide on and pick out.
• intransitive verb To prefer above others.
• intransitive verb To determine or decide.
• intransitive verb To make a choice; make a selection.
• idiom (cannot choose but) Can only do; cannot do otherwise.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To select from two or more; make a choice of in preference to another or others, or to something else.
• To prefer and decide: with an infinitive as object: as, he chose to make the attack.
• To prefer to have; be inclined or have a preference for.
• 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.
• To elect; make a choice; decide.
• To prefer; desire; wish.— To have one's choice; do as one pleases.
• To direct one's steps; choose one's way.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To make a selection; to decide.
• intransitive verb To do otherwise.
• intransitive verb must necessarily.
• transitive verb To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect.
• transitive verb colloq. To wish; to desire; to prefer.
• transitive verb See under Side.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of choosing; selection.
• noun The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
• noun Scope for choice.
• verb To elect.
• verb To pick.
• verb To decide to act in a certain way.
• conjunction mathematics The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way
• verb select as an alternative over another
• verb pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives