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(v)
(intransitive) To make a firm decision to do something. To become determined to reach a certain goal or take a certain action.
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To conclude or resolve (something):
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
(n)
The act of deciding.
(adj)
Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.
To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
(intransitive) To choose; select.
A firm decision or an official decision.
(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
The act of making a choice.
(transitive, intransitive) To assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.
To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
(transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
(transitive) To consider carefully; to weigh well in the mind.
Alternative form of decision making. [The process of reaching a decision.]
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(transitive) To regard as good; to commend; to be pleased with; to think well of.
(transitive) To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
(transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of; to be certain that.
To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
(ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.
(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
To observe or inspect carefully or critically.
An act of identification.
To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
(transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
(intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
(transitive) To think about seriously.
(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.
(transitive) To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
Serving to define or distinguish.
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
(transitive, ditransitive) To convey by speech; to say.
(transitive) To determine, estimate or judge the value of; to evaluate; to estimate.
(transitive) To sound out (a word or phrase); to articulate.
(transitive) To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
(transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.
A regulation, law, guideline.
(chiefly Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of judgment. [The act of judging.]
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
(transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
(countable) A command.
(transitive) To view as valuable.
(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
(intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To pronounce.
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
(finance, transitive) To divide into tranches.
(intransitive) To cease moving.
(intransitive, with of) To eliminate or to get rid of something.
(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
(intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(intransitive) To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election.
To bring or transport something to its destination.
(Australia, British, Canada) Standard spelling of installment.
(transitive) To throw so as to turn over.
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
(heading) To reach out with one's voice.
(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
(transitive) To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of.
To cut a narrow opening.
(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
(transitive) To cut into slices.
(law) A thing; personal property.
To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
(medicine) To order (a drug or medical device) for use by a particular patient (under licensed authority).
(intransitive) To do something.
Determinative; causal.
(religion) To admit into the ministry, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk, or to authorize as a rabbi.
(transitive) To make final or firm; to finish or complete.
An edict or law.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on.
Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
(transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
(ambitransitive) To consider a matter again.
(uncountable) The ability to do something.