What's the difference between chose and decide?

Chose


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Choose
  • () of Choose
  • (n.) A thing; personal property.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Choose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (2) Subjects initially chose to work for the higher rated food, but as the constraints for this food increased, subjects chose to work for the lower rated food.
  • (3) The sensitivity threshold level was defined as the lightest probe in which the subject accurately chose the correct interval in at least 2 out of 3 trials.
  • (4) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
  • (5) Six in 10 of our members chose to back Neil Findlay because they support his policies.
  • (6) In contrast 30.4% of adults approached chose CSII, and 32% had discontinued after one year.
  • (7) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
  • (8) On the basis of investigations of the malarial blood-stage antigens SERP, HRPII, and MSAI from Plasmodium falciparum, we chose two Escherichia coli-expressed hybrid proteins containing selected partial sequences of these antigens.
  • (9) We chose, as a model peptide, a B-cell epitope from the pre-S(2) region of Hepatitis B virus.
  • (10) Napthine chose not to directly criticise Tony Abbott – it’s not his style – but the coolness was clear.
  • (11) Rather than challenging the Lib Dem policy on Trident, Miliband chose to criticise Cameron's comments about the renewal of Trident in last Thursday's leadership debate.
  • (12) Interschool participants ranked grades and sports first or second, while nonparticipants chose looks as most important for achieving popularity.
  • (13) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
  • (14) Ferguson’s influence at Old Trafford has clearly waned since the Moyes appointment but, notably, there is no admission on his part that he chose the wrong man, insisting that the club followed a rigorous and methodical selection process.
  • (15) In fact, the large scattering angle we chose, theta = 135 degrees, allowed us to assemble a very compact source-detector device.
  • (16) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
  • (17) A spokesperson for Plaid Cymru said: “On 5 May, Wales chose not to elect one single party to govern Wales with a majority.
  • (18) The authors chose 17-beta-E2 as ligand because the plasma steroid binding system has not been shown to be homogeneous and because this binding function may vary independently for the different steroids.
  • (19) David Owen chose the weekend of the Lib Dem conference to offer his personal advice about the AV referendum.
  • (20) The Japanese Psychosomatic Society chose the best of both in setting its goals.

Decide


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (2) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
  • (3) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
  • (4) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (5) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (6) It was then I decided to take up the offer from Berkeley."
  • (7) Problem definition, the first step in policy development, includes identifying the issues, discussing and framing the issues, analyzing data and resources, and deciding on a problem definition.
  • (8) I also decided that the Kushner-Harvard relationship deserved special attention.
  • (9) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
  • (10) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (11) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (12) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
  • (13) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
  • (14) Since 1987 consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists in Europe have decided to develop a closer collaboration to stimulate the development of the C-L field.
  • (15) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (16) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (17) The authors decided to keep in this series only hips presenting with a very considerable upward displacement of the femoral head of type IV in Crowe, Maini and Ranawat's classification.
  • (18) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (19) Now that growth hormone can be produced in almost unlimited quantities, clinicians face difficult new questions: How does one decide which short children should be treated?
  • (20) If we were to have a plebiscite before the end of the year, and you were to reverse-engineer that, it would make interesting speculation about the timing of an election.” Abetz said in January he would need to see whether a plebiscite was “above board or whether the question is stacked” before deciding to heed any result in favour of marriage equality.