decide

From Middle English deciden, from Middle French decider, from Latin dēcīdere, infinitive of dēcīdō (“cut off, decide”), from dē (“down from”) + caedō (“cut”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsaɪd/

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decide (third-person singular simple present decides, present participle deciding, simple past and past participle decided)

1. (transitive, intransitive) to resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle

   The election will be decided on foreign policies.

   We must decide our next move.

   Her last-minute goal decided the game.

   • Shakespeare

     The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.

2. (intransitive) to make a judgment, especially after deliberation

   You must decide between good and evil.

   I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.

   • Bible, 1 Kings xx. 40

     So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.

3. (transitive) to cause someone to come to a decision
   • 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, page 1537),

     It decides me to look into the matter, for if it is worth anyone's while to take so much trouble, there must be something in it.

4. (obsolete) to cut off; to separate
   • Fuller

     Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

• make up one's mind
• choose
• determine
• pick

• de-iced, deiced

decide

1. third-person singular present indicative of decidir

From decidi +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /deˈt͡side/
• Rhymes: -ide

decide

1. decisively
2. decidedly

decide

1. present of decider
2. imperative of decider

• Rhymes: -ide

decide

1. third-person singular present indicative of decidere

• decedi

dēcīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēcīdō

decide

1. Alternative form of deciden

decide

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of decidir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of decidir

From French décider, from Latin dēcīdō.

a decide (third-person singular present decide, past participle decis) 3rd conj.

1. to decide

   Synonym: hotărî

• decizie

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /deˈθide/, [d̪eˈθiðe]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /deˈside/, [d̪eˈsiðe]

decide

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of decidir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of decidir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of decidir.