(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.
Decode
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "Decoding the tsetse fly's DNA is a major scientific breakthrough.
(2) TV decoders of UAR-1 type are recommended for clinical practice.
(3) In each case the probe was placed at a single site at the junction of the head and body of the subunit, near the decoding site and the area in which elongation factor Tu is bound.
(4) Factor 3 (mixed audio) was defined by accuracy at decoding discrepant cues and "noisy" audio cues.
(5) During retrieval, the bar code is decoded in real-time and the desired images are automatically retrieved.
(6) The consulting skills required of medical students and practitioners have been categorized into a number of specific skills, two of which are: students' ability to empathize with the patient; and ability to decode non-verbal cues given by the patient in the interview.
(7) The VBM deficit is a failure to decode the target stimulus, and is not simply a function of abnormalities due to an overactive transient channel system.
(8) Sixteen autistic children with WISC Performance IQs of 70 or above were analyzed to determine their conceptions of spatial relations, size comparisons, and gesture imitations through the use of the WISC, an originally devised Language Decoding Test (LDT), and a modified Gesture Imitation Test (GIT).
(9) The need to see or to call the medical team to decode them allows close collaboration between the family and the clinical team.
(10) Spokesmen for BSkyB and the Premier League said that previous rulings by the ECJ and the UK high court make it clear that it is illegal for pubs to use foreign decoders to air cheap sport.
(11) It is proposed that locale is decoded by a form of spectral pattern recognition, whereby the locale of the source is represented as a peak on an autocorrelation function.
(12) This innate mechanism may have features in common with the vocal signal decoding mechanism of subhuman primates.
(13) The total variation in informational entropy is zero in the cycle of the invertible system, while in the noninvertible system the entropy of decoding is less than that of encoding.
(14) Taken together, the results demonstrate that the 8-basepair acceptor stem and the long extra arm are crucial determinants of tRNA(Sec) which enable decoding of UGA140 in the fdhF message.
(15) One child illustrated the close association between writing and phonologic encoding and decoding operations, and two children the preservation of linguistic skills provided the acoustic channel was by-passed and language presented visually.
(16) Worryingly for Allardyce, Sunderland’s defence seemed to be having trouble decoding his passing radar.
(17) Decoding these mRNAs yields protein products of 182 (P1), 175 (P1), 140 (P2) and 136 (P2) amino acids.
(18) After the initial analyses (at least 15 cells per person) the slides were decoded, destained and reused for C and Q band polymorphism studies.
(19) In addition to this, decoded tomographic images of unrestricted depth are readily attainable.
(20) Moreover, we find that certain mild perturbations of the structure, for example, creation of G-U wobble pairs, generate resistance to streptomycin, an antibiotic known to interfere with the decoding process.