Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An item of personal property; a chattel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, an article of personal property, or a personal right; a thing.
- noun Preterit and old past participle of choose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
choose . - noun (Law) A thing; personal property.
- noun a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant party without suit.
- noun a thing in possession, as distinguished from a thing
in action . - noun a thing annexed to a place, as a mill.
- noun a thing which is movable.
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- verb Simple past of
choose .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So it was probably with no small effort that the label chose its newest public “face” — the Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly.
Balenciaga Baby! Jennifer Connelly Is Fashion House's New Gal 2008
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So it was probably with no small effort that the label chose its newest public “face” — the Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly.
Balenciaga Baby! Jennifer Connelly Is Fashion House's New Gal 2008
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The label chose a winner from over a hundred entries, and posted it, along with three runners-up and seven short-listed entrants.
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Sharpe is reported to have criticised the singer's album of hymns, Praise & Blame, saying it's not why the label chose to "invest a fortune" in Jones.
Music news, reviews, comment and features | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Luiz Felipe Scolari betrayed, in his endearingly mangled English, some of Heston's flawed thought process when asked why, after Clint Dempsey's last-minute header had deprived Chelsea of two vital points in the title chose, he had chosen not to station a defender at the far post of Fulham's goal.
Chelsea Blog 2009
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Enough already it's over time to move on either you choose to support Obama or you don't the chose is yours, but please understand this we all have been through a lot these past months we all have had our hopes tested, but in every fight there is an winner and a loser.
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"I am saddened and disappointed that my label chose to put out another hits album instead of new music," he said in a statement.
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Sarah Palin chose to use her children as political props.
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Sarah Palin chose to deliver her farewell address was eerily silent Sunday afternoon as the predominantly supportive crowd hung on her every word, waiting for any clue to what her future plans may be.
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And CNN considers this 'breaking news'? .... we ALL already knew she was unfit when McCain chose her as his VP ....
Poll: Majority of Republicans don't think Palin's qualified for prez 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word chose
Awfully useful in French, when I can't think of the right word.
April 28, 2010