Choose vs Doom - What's the difference?
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To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
To elect.
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To decide to act in a certain way.
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To wish; to desire; to prefer.
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*:The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
(mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Scope for choice.
Destiny, especially terrible.
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An ill fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
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A feeling of danger, impending danger, darkness or despair.
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(countable, historical) A law.
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(countable, historical) A judgment or decision.
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(countable, historical) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.
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Death.
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(sometimes capitalized) The Last Judgment; or , an artistic representation of it.
To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.
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To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of.
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(obsolete) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
(obsolete) To ordain as a penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
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(archaic, US, New England) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
As verbs the difference between choose and doom
is that choose is to pick; to make the choice of; to select while doom is to pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn.As nouns the difference between choose and doom
is that choose is the act of choosing; selection while doom is destiny, especially terrible.As a conjunction choose
is the binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.As a proper noun Doom is
a popular first-person shooter video game, often regarded as the father of the genre.choose
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(Choice)Alternative forms
* chuseEtymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- The number of distinct subsets of size ''k'' from a set of size ''n'' is or "''n'' choose ''k''".
See also
* (projectlink)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(chooses)References
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Noun
- Homely household task shall be her doom .
- And there he learned of things and haps to come, / To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom .
- The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens.
- They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.
- This is the day of doom for Bassianus.
Derived terms
* doom-and-gloomer, gloom-and-doomer * doomer * doomful * doomless * doomlike * doom metal * doomsday * doomsayer * doomster * doomy * entropic doom * foredoom * gloom and doom * predoomAntonyms
* (ill fate) fortuneVerb
(en verb)- a criminal doomed to death
- Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
- A man of genius doomed to struggle with difficulties.
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- Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?