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Definition: Choice |
ChoiceAdjective1. Of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches". 2. Appealing to refined taste; "choice wine". Noun1. The person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor". 2. The act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick". 3. An alternative action; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "choice" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Choice. Many sentences betoken ignorance and others indicate extreme carelessness on the part of the writers by the inapt choice of their prepositions, which often express relations so delicate in their distinctions that nothing short of an extended study of the best writers will confer the desired skill. We present some examples. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The axiom of choice is an axiom in set theory. It was formulated about a century ago by Ernst Zermelo, and was quite controversial at the time. It states the following:
Let X be a collection of non-empty sets. Then we can choose a member from each set in that collection.Stated more formally:
There exists a function f defined on X such that for each set S in X, f(S) is an element of S.Another formulation of the axiom of choice (AC) states:
Given any set of mutually exclusive non-empty sets, there exists at least one set that contains exactly one element in common with each of the non-empty sets.It seems obvious: if you've got a bunch of boxes lying around with at least one item in each of them, the axiom simply states that you can choose one item out of each box. Where's the controversy?
Well, the controversy was over what it meant to choose something from these sets. As an example, let us look at some sample sets.
And therein lies the crux of the axiom. All it states is that there is some function f that can choose an element out of each set in the collection. It gives you no indication about how the function would be defined, it simply mandates its existence. Theorems whose proofs involve the axiom of choice are always non-constructive: they postulate the existence of something without telling you how to get it.
- 1. Let X be any finite collection of non-empty sets.
- Then f can be stated explicitly (out of set A choose a, ...), since the number of sets is finite.
- Here the axiom of choice is not needed, you can simply use the rules of formal logic.
- 2. Let X be the collection of all non-empty subsets of the natural numbers {0, 1, 2, 3, ... }.
- Then f can be the function that chooses the smallest element in each set.
- Again the axiom of choice is not needed, since we have a rule for doing the choosing.
- 3. Let X be the collection of all sub-intervals of (0,1) with a length greater than 0.
- Then f can be the function that chooses the midpoint of each interval.
- Again the axiom of choice is not needed.
- 4. Let X be the collection of all non-empty subsets of the reals.
- Now we have a problem. There is no obvious definition of f that will guarantee you success, because the other axioms of ZF set theory do not well-order the real numbers.
The axiom of choice has been proven to be independent of the remaining axioms of set theory; that is, it can be neither proven nor disproven from them (unless those remaining axioms contain a contradiction, which we don't know). This is the result of work by Kurt Gödel and Paul Cohen. There are thus no contradictions if you choose not to accept the axiom of choice; however, most mathematicians accept either it, or a weakened variant of it, because it makes their jobs easier. Despite this, there is some study of systems in which the axiom of choice is either not true or at least not assumed (see also axiom of regularity). In these cases it is important to be aware which proofs in mathematics use the axiom of choice and which do not.
One of the reasons that some mathematicians do not particularly like the axiom of choice is that it implies the existence of some bizarre counter-intuitive objects. An example of this is the Banach-Tarski Paradox which amounts to saying that it is possible to "carve-up" the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces, and, using only rotation and translation, reassemble the pieces into two balls each with the same volume as the original. Note that the proof, like all proofs involving the axiom of choice, is an existence proof only: it does not tell you how to carve up the unit sphere to make this happen, it simply tells you that it can be done.
One of the most interesting aspects of the axiom of choice is the sheer number of places in mathematics that it shows up. There are also a remarkable number of statements that are equivalent to the axiom of choice, most important among them Zorn's lemma and the well-ordering principle: every set can be well-ordered. (In fact, Zermelo initially introduced the axiom of choice in order to formalize his proof of the well-ordering principle.)
Jerry Bona once said: "The Axiom of Choice is obviously true, the well-ordering principle obviously false, and who can tell about Zorn's Lemma?". In truth, all three of these are mathematically equivalent, but the statement was amusing because it underscored the fact that most mathematicians find the axiom of choice to be intuitive, the well-ordering principle to be counterintuitive, and Zorn's lemma to be too complex to form any intuitive feeling about. Several central theorems in various branches of mathematics require the axiom of choice (or one of its weaker versions, such as the ultrafilter lemma, the axiom of countable choice, or the axiom of dependent choice). These branches are:
- Set theory
- Any union of countably many countable sets is itself countable.
- If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A.
- If the set A is infinite, then A and A×A have the same cardinality.
- If two sets are given, then they either have the same cardinality, or one has a smaller cardinality than the other.
- Algebra
- Every vector space has a basis.
- Every ring contains a maximal ideal.
- Every field has an algebraic closure.
- The Stone representation theorem, stating that every boolean algebra is isomorphic to some boolean algebra of sets.
- Functional analysis
- The Hahn-Banach theorem in functional analysis, allowing the extension of linear functionals.
- The Banach-Alaoglu theorem about compactness of sets of functionals.
- The Baire category theorem about complete metric spaces, and its consequences, such as the open mapping theorem and the closed graph theorem.
- General topology
- Tychonoff's theorem stating that every product of compact topological spaces is compact.
- In the product topology, the closure of a product of subsets is equal to the product of the closures.
- Any product of complete uniform spaces is complete.
- A uniform space is compact if and only if it is complete and totally bounded.
- Every Tychonoff space has a Stone-Cech compactification.
External link
There are many people still doing work on the axiom of choice and its consequences. If you are interested in more, look up Paul Howard at EMU.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Axiom of choice."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Rational Choice Theory is a way of looking at deliberations between a number of potential courses of action, in which "rationality" of one form or another is used either to decide which course of action would be the best to take, or to predict which course of action actually will be taken. Such a perspective finds itself in models for both human behavior and behavior of non-human but nonetheless potentially rational entities, such as corporations.Obviously, what is taken as "rational" is of chief importance here. Usually, "rational" is defined in a formal, mathematical way, along the lines of Game theory; this often means making a choice is taken to be equivalent to solving a mathematical optimization problem.
Often, to simplify calculation and ease prediction, some rather unrealistic assumptions are made about the world. These can include:
Assumptions such as these have sparked criticism from a number of camps. Some people have tried to create models of Bounded rationality, which try to be more psychologically plausible without giving up completely on the idea that some kind of reason underlies decision-making processes.
- An individual has precise information about exactly what will occur under any choice made. (Alternatively, an individual has a reliable probability distribution describing what will happen under any choice made.)
- An individual has time and ability to weigh every choice against every other choice
- An individual is fully aware of all possible choices
Why rational choice theory?
One question that can be asked is why people try to base their models on concepts such as "reason", "preferences", and what is implied by them, free will. Some potential reasons:
See also:
- They see people as "rational" beings, and thus believe that a model in which they are represented as such should be reasonably accurate
- Assumptions of rationality have useful formal properties
- Homo economicus
- Rational expectations
- Neoclassical economics
- Organizational theory
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rational Choice Theory."
Synonyms: ChoiceSynonyms: prime(a) (adj), prize (adj), quality (adj), select (adj), alternative (n), option (n), pick (n), selection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Choice | Verb: be neutral; Adjective: have no choice, have no election; waive, not vote; abstain from voting, refrain from voting; leave undecided; "make a virtue of necessity". |
Noun: no choice, Hobson's choice; first come first served, random selection; necessity; not a pin to choose; (equality); any, the first that comes; that or nothing. | |
Choice | Verb: offers one's choice, set before; hold out the alternative, present the alternative, offer the alternative; put to the vote. |
Use option, use discretion, exercise option, exercise discretion, one's option; adopt, take up, embrace, espouse; choose, elect, opt for; take one's choice, make one's choice; make choice of, fix upon. | |
Noun: choice, option; discretion; (volition); preoption; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix; adoption, cooptation; novation; decision; (judgment). | |
Eclectic; choosing; Verb: preferential; chosen; Verb: choice; (good). | |
By choice, by preference; in preference; rather, before. | |
Compulsion | Restraint; necessity; force majeure; Hobson's choice. |
Inexpedience | Best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superlatively; good; bully, crackajack, giltedged; superfine, |
Legality | Legislature; law, code, corpus juris, pandect, charter, enactment, statute, rule; canon; (precept); ordinance, institution, regulation; bylaw, byelaw; decree; (order); ordonnance; standing order; plebiscite; (choice). |
Necessity | Verb: lie under a necessity; befated, be doomed, be destined; in for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's fate; n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be unable to help. |
Star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae, Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune, Ides of March, Hobson's choice. | |
Repute | Chief; (master); first fiddle; (proficient); cynosure, mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon; (perfection); choice and master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy. ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels; (trophy). |
Style | Noun: style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language; (eloquence); authorship; la morgue litteraire. |
Will | Of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu; out of one's won head; by choice; purposely; (intentionally); deliberately. |
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Screenplays | Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) I'm going to give you the choice I never had. (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) By choice, man (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) Perfect! It's my second choice, but it's wonderful (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) I hear the surfing is choice. (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) | |
Lyrics | I had no choice but to hear you (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Well we got no choice (School's Out; performing artist: Alice Cooper) She's got a choice (Uptown Girl; performing artist: Billy Joel) There’s a choice to be made (Choose; performing artist: Color Me Badd) You're my distance, destination of choice (Caught In The Sun; performing artist: Course Of Nature) | |
Clever | Deciding not to choose is still making a choice. (references; author: unknown) Remember, your relatives had no choice in the matter, either. (references; author: unknown) If you decide not to choose, then you've already made the wrong choice! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Choice (2003) Dealer's Choice (1973) The Choice (1967) Satan's Choice (1967) A Choice of Futures (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Bucket and tire in shaded area near home. Choice potential mosquito breeding site. Credit: CDC. |  | Take it easy!!! Tuna cross here. A light-hearted sign displaying fisherman's game fish of choice. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | An overview of the marsh and the culvert that restricts water from flowing from Quivett Creek into the marsh. The preferred restoration choice was to create an open channel between the two sections of marsh but the homes in the foreground would have been impacted. Instead the culverts were enlarged. Part of the project includes raising the abandoned roadway surface to provide flood control. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Plate 138. The Sailor's Choice. Lagodon rhomboides (L.), Holbrook. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Contour stripcropping is the conservation practice of choice in this neighborhood in Allamakee County in northeast Iowa. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Aids It's Your Choice : Think!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The wrong choice can Kill you. : Aids - Don't Get it!. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The peoples' choice. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The nation's choice for the 12TH President of the U.S. Genl. Z. Taylor and his battles. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The master's choice. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Unborn Living Treasure - Pregn" by Jake Campbell Commentary: "One life that will not be unjustifiably ended for selfish reasons. One life that has a chance and a choice. One life that will live." | "Sacré-Coeur" by Richard Varga Commentary: "Sacré-Coeur This basilica was built after the defeat of the 1870 Franco-ptussian war, its construction was a national choice. There is a magnificent panoramic wiew of paris." |
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 | Excellent; great; superb; superior; good news; accomplished; admirable; attractive; capital; certified; champion; choice; choicest; desirable; distinctive; distinguished; estimable; exceptional; exemplary; exquisite; fine; finest; first; first-class; firs. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ben Jonson | True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. |
George Eliot | The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. |
Jacques Delille | Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. |
John Milton | Reason also is choice. |
Oscar Wilde | Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both. |
| God offers to every mind a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please -- you can never have both. | |
William Shakespeare | There's small choice in rotten apples. |
| The choice and master spirits of this age. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | So that their politic societies all began from a voluntary union, and the mutual agreement of men freely acting in the choice of their governors, and forms of government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. (reference) |
Miranda v. Arizona | 1966 | Unless adequate preventive measures are taken to dispel the compulsion inherent in custodial surroundings, no statement obtained from the defendant can truly be the product of his free choice. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | The first column is for choice of subject, the second for arrangement, the third for colouring |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Under that impulse, she had made her choice, and had chosen, as it now appeared, the more wretched alternative of the two. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I have the choice to suffer or to enjoy |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Yet they honestly think there is no choice left |
Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare | Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Enrolling in Part B is your choice. (references) | |
Choice of care provider is restricted. (references) | ||
Streptomycin is the antibiotic of choice. (references) | ||
Business | Often a pilot project precedes the final choice. (references) | |
Print is a close second to TV, as an advertiser's choice. (references) | ||
Newly marketed European products are broadening product choice. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Papua New Guinea | Church representatives teach the lessons, and the students attend the class operated by the church of their parents' choice. (references) |
Tanzania | The regional commissioner gave the refugees the choice of returning to their countries of origin or moving into UNHCR camps. (references) | |
Chile | On July 17, the President promulgated new regulations reinforcing a prisoner's right freely to profess the religion of his or her choice. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | Consequently, the first choice has to be the correct choice. (references) |
Ukraine | Price and quality are the decisive factors in consumer choice. (references) | |
Australia | The second choice is individual contracts with individual workers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Argentina | The President's choice is then subject to Senate approval. (references) |
Pakistan | The defendants were given free choice of and ready access to counsel. (references) | |
Lebanon | Therefore the residents had no choice but to work with the occupiers. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | Delegates approved a resolution rejecting the 1969 "Act of Free Choice," which confirmed Papua's incorporation into Indonesia; called on the central Government, along with the U.N. and the U.S. and Dutch governments, to review the process by which the territory became a part of Indonesia and to recognize Papua's sovereignty since 1961; and mandated the Papuan Presidium Council to strive for international recognition and to report back to the congress on December 1 2000, regarding progress toward these goals. (references) |
Minorities | Ghana | On May 25, members of the Tijanniya and Al-Sunna Muslim sects clashed in Madina, Greater Accra, over the choice of an assistant Imam. (references) |
Switzerland | Citizens have the choice of appealing to either the U.N. committee or the ECHR but may not appeal a U.N. decision to the ECHR or vice versa. (references) | |
Political Economy | ITALY | In firms with fewer than 15 workers, this choice is the employer's. (references) |
Thailand | American equipment is still the technology of choice for most Thai military purchases. (references) | |
INDIA | Workers may form and join trade unions of their choice and work actions are protected by law. (references) | |
Political Rights | Guyana | Citizens are free to join or support political parties of their choice. (references) |
Mauritania | Each citizen votes by entering a booth where they place the card of their candidate of choice into a sealed envelope. (references) | |
Czech Republic | Citizens may join political organizations or vote for the political party of their choice without government interference. (references) | |
Trade | Singapore | It provides shippers with a choice of 250 shipping lines with connections to 600 ports in 123 countries. (references) |
Hong Kong | All licensed banks are authorized to provide loans to residents and non-residents in the currency of their choice. (references) | |
Pakistan | The U.S. banks have, in general, been selective in their choice of customers, and as a result have what most observers would agree is a quality client base. (references) | |
Travel | Indonesia | Malarone is also a good choice. (references) |
Philippines | For entertainment, there is a wide choice of movie houses, theaters, and social clubs. (references) | |
Ukraine | Westerners and their vehicles and residences are increasingly viewed as choice targets. (references) | |
Women | Bahrain | Women are free to work outside the home, to drive cars without escorts, and to wear clothing of their choice. (references) |
Senegal | By law women have the right to choose when and whom they marry; however, in some areas, traditional practice can restrict a woman's choice. (references) | |
Iran | While the enforcement of a conservative Islamic dress codes has varied with the political climate since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, what women wear in public is not entirely a matter of personal choice. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | They have little say in the choice of mediators. (references) |
Congo | Any worker is free to join a union of his choice. (references) | |
Sweden | The law entitles workers to form and join unions of their choice, and workers exercise this right. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Jones | That is a God-given natural choice. God ordained that. God put that in me. Homosexuality is a perversity. It is a choice of sin. |
Dennis Miller | Every generation has had their drugs of choice. |
Jay McGraw | You know I do, I think that law school is kind of the responsible choice. You know once you're a lawyer, you're always a lawyer, and so I thought now would be a good time, and it is useful stuff. I mean the things I've learned there I use even this week. |
Jesse Ventura | Get unicameral or single-house on the ballot so that the people of Minnesota could have a choice of what their government would be. |
Regis Philbin | I didn't want to do it. It would be too much. I didn't want to do it. And I was never ticked, and I'm glad Meredith Vieira us doing it. I think she's the right choice, and God love everybody. |
Rush Limbaugh | Al-Qaeda isn't looking like such a good career choice, with more than one-third of their top guys arrested or having assumed cave temperature since they started this war against us. |
Senator Paul Sarbanes | Well, here's your choice. At the moment, the accounting industry is overseen by the accounting industry. That's not working very well. |
Sylvia Browne | OK. But this is very reasonable because you have always had a little bit of problem, as many people have, but especially you, of making choices. You're always afraid you're going to make the wrong choice. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Relying, then, on the patronage of your good will, I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | By the combined and cooperative action of our war allies, we shall help the defeated enemy states establish peaceful democratic governments of their own free choice. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our consumers will lack a wider choice of goods at lower prices. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For this generation, the choice must be our own. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Some might believe that the things we have talked about tonight are irrelevant to the choice. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | My plan will give parents more choice, give teachers more flexibility and help communities create new American schools. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We know charter schools provide real public school choice. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Rarely has the world faced a choice more clear or consequential. |
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| "Choice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.86% of the time. "Choice" is used about 11,763 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.86% | 11,747 | 783 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.11% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11,763 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "choice" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Choice | Last name | 1,000 | 11,400 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "choice". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bahurim | N/A | Biblical | Choice |
| Tabor | N/A | Biblical | Choice |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Norway | Choice Hotels Scandinavia Asa | South Africa | Choice Holdings Limited |
| United Kingdom | First Choice Holidays Plc | USA | Choice Hotels International, Inc. |
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Expressions using "choice": at choice ♦ axiom of choice ♦ by choice ♦ Career Choice ♦ Choice Behavior ♦ choice device ♦ choice fruit ♦ choice morsel ♦ choice of a profession ♦ choice of words ♦ choice produce ♦ choice quality ♦ choice words ♦ for choice ♦ free choice ♦ freedom of choice ♦ from choice ♦ have no choice ♦ hobsons choice ♦ hobson's choice ♦ i have no choice ♦ ladies' choice ♦ languages of choice ♦ majority choice ♦ make a careful choice ♦ make a choice ♦ make choice of ♦ Manns Choice ♦ method of choice ♦ multiple choice ♦ Patient Freedom of Choice Laws ♦ random choice ♦ right of choice ♦ sailors choice ♦ Sailor's choice ♦ take one's choice ♦ take your choice ♦ this is my choice ♦ To make a choice of ♦ To make choice of ♦ unhappy choice ♦ you don't have any choice. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "choice": choice-limiting, choice-making, choice-of-cake-to-follow, choice-to-tell. | |
Ending with "choice": first-choice, multi-choice, third-choice. | |
Containing "choice": pro-choice faction. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
choice hotel | 2,434 | crafters choice | 158 |
president choice financial | 966 | bikers choice | 157 |
president choice | 912 | choice hotel international | 140 |
choice | 639 | choice scholar | 132 |
teen choice award | 579 | chef choice | 116 |
career choice | 540 | by choice not | 115 |
first choice | 523 | choice pro suicide | 113 |
music choice | 482 | choice one | 111 |
pro choice | 430 | people choice | 110 |
star choice | 418 | critic choice video | 109 |
choice home | 327 | blue choice | 108 |
fresh choice | 298 | sophies choice | 107 |
2003 award choice teen | 274 | byers choice | 106 |
first choice holiday | 271 | weapon of choice | 101 |
america choice | 235 | critic choice | 100 |
president choice banking | 227 | angler choice | 99 |
ks choice | 199 | school choice | 99 |
healthy choice | 192 | choice first power | 99 |
choice point | 182 | ana by choice | 98 |
choice hotels.com | 161 | choice realm richards | 98 |
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| Language | Translations for "choice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | keuse (alternative, election, option). (various references) | |
Albanian | zgjedhje (discretion, election, exposition, matching, option, pick, poll, selection), llojshmëri, i zgjedhur me kujdes (handpicked), i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, pukka, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), alternativë (alternative, option), ajkë (cream, elite, pick, prime, whip). (various references) | |
Arabic | ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, select, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), مندوحة (option), مختار (chosen, elected, exquisite, select, selected), مجموعة يختار منها, زبدة (butter, fat, gist, quintessence, shortening, upshot), عناية في الإختيار, صفوة (cream, elite, fat, flower, flowering, top), خيار (cucumber, liberty, option, preference), الإختيار, الشخص المختار (nominee). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | умение за подбиране, грижлив подбор, вкус (discernment, fancy, flavour, inclination, liking, palate, penchant, relish, sapor, savor, savour, smack, stomach, taste, tincture, tinge), висококачествен (extra, oriental, select), отбран (picked, select), най-отбраното, най-доброто (best, the pick of bunch), богат избор, предпочетено нещо, придричив (exigent), подбран (assorted, exclusive, handpicked, picked, picked out, select, selected), избраник (intended), избран (chosen, elect, elected, picked, select), избор (alternative, assortment, election, option, pick, selection), избиране (election). (various references) | |
Catalan | elecció (election). (various references) | |
Chinese | 选择 (Alternative, Choose, Choosing, Chosen, option, select, selected, Selecting, selection). (various references) | |
Czech | volba (election, option, vote). (various references) | |
Danish | valg (election). (various references) | |
Dutch | keuze (alternative, election, option), verkiezing (election), optie (election), keus (alternative, election, option), keur (election). (various references) | |
Esperanto | elekto (election). (various references) | |
Farsi | پسند (Approbation), منتخب (Chosen), چیزنخبه , انتخاب (Draft, Election, Pickup), برگزیده (Chosen, Favorite, Picked, Select, Selective). (various references) | |
Finnish | valintavapaus (option), valinta (selection), valinnanvara (option), valikoima (assortment, selection), priima (fine, first-class, prime), hieno (chic, delicate, elegant, exquisite, fine, finely dressed, noble, refined, thin), herkullinen (delicious). (various references) | |
Flemish | keuze. (various references) | |
French | choix. (various references) | |
Frisian | ferkiezing (election). (various references) | |
German | wahl (ballot, class, election, electoral, grade, option, poll, polling, preference, quality, return, selection, vote, voting), auswahl (anthology, assortment, choosing, cull, eligibility, miscellany, pick, range, representative team, sample, select, selected, selection, variety), Sortiment (assortment, assortment of goods, collection, range, retail book trade), auslese (anthology, election, elite, selection). (various references) | |
Greek | επιλογή (option, selection). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ברירה (selection). (various references) | |
Hungarian | választék (assortment, election, range, selection, variety), válogatott (assorted, elect, hand picked, picked, select, selected), választás (alternative, election, option, the lot, voting), legjobb minőségű, legjava vminek (cream, picked, plum, quintessence, the pick of the bunch, tiptop), alternatíva (alternative, option). (various references) | |
Icelandic | val (election). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pilihan (alternative, dibs, dilemma, elective, option, preference, selection). (various references) | |
Irish | togha, rogha (election). (various references) | |
Italian | scelta (alternative, bet, cull, election, option, pick, picking, selection), selezione (cull, picking, screening, selection). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 選択 (selection), 選抜 (picking out, selection), 採択 (adoption, selection). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅしゃ (copying by hand, option, rejection or adoption), さいたく (adoption, selection), せんたくこうもく, せんたくけん (option), せんたく (laundry, selection, washing), せんばつ (picking out, selection), せん (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), このみ (berry, fruit, liking, nut, taste), ようしゃ (adoption or rejection, forgiveness, mercy, pardon, separating the needed from the unneeded), みたて (diagnosis, selection), とくせん (select, special, specially selected, urging soldiers to fight more vigorously), とびきり (extraordinary, superior). (various references) | |
Korean | 선택 (Choosing, Optional, selection, selective). (various references) | |
Malay | pilihan (election). (various references) | |
Manx | teiy (ballot, balloting, choose, cream, cream best, cull, discrimination, division; tomahawk, gather, highlight; selection, pick, pick over, poll; prime, select, vote), reih (champion, choose, correct, correct as behaviour, discrimination, elect, favourite, opt, option, preferred, single out). (various references) | |
Papiamen | chòis (election). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oicechay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | escolha (adoption, assortment, choose, election, pick, refusal). (various references) | |
Romanian | opţiune (choosing, optation, option), alegere (alternative, balloting, choosing, election, option, pick, preference, return, selection, separation, voting), ales (admirable, beau, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme), alternativã (alternative), deosebit (apart, different, differently, dissimilar, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverse, especial, excellent, extra, in a class by itself, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, profoundly, remarkable, separate, singular, special, specific, strange, sundry, uncommon, unlike, unusual, variant, varied), elitã (cream, elite, flower), fin (beautiful, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, select, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), adorabil (admirable, adorable, amiable, charming, darling, delicious, delightful, exquisite, wonderful, worshipful), lucru ales, superior (above, best, better, chief, excelsior, exclusive, first class, Guardian, high, higher, lofty, overweening, predominant, supercilious, superior, tiptop, top, upper), persoanã aleasã, posibilitate de alegere, preferinţã (liking, particular, preference, suffrage), rar (exceptional, far between, infrequent, lank, lanky, occasionally, rare, scanty, scarce, scattered, seldom, slowly, sparse, thin, thinly, uncommon, unusual), selecţie (choosing, pick, selection), select (chosen, select), sortiment (assortment, selection), subţire (cunning, delicate, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, flimsy, hour-glass, jejune, papery, reedy, refined, shrewd, shrill, skinny, slender, slight, slim, sly, small, spidery, squeamish, stalky, subtle, tall, tenuous, thin, thinly, weak, wiry), libertate (clearness, freedom, latitude, liberty, scope). (various references) | |
Russian | выбор (adoption, election, option, pick, selection, selections). (various references) | |
Scottish | roghainn (a choice, choosing, selection, the best of), raghan, raghadh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odabran (chosen, recherche, select, selected), izbor (adoption, assortment, availability, election, option, pick, pick of, selection). (various references) | |
Spanish | elección (chooser, election, pick, return, selection, vote), opción (option, refusal). (various references) | |
Swedish | val (cetacean, election, option, pick, return, selection, voting, whale), utsökt (consummate, dainty, delicate, delicious, excellent, exquisite, exquisitely, fine, picked). (various references) | |
Tagalog | halálan (election). (various references) | |
Thai | ส่วนที่ดีที่สุด, สิ่งที่ถูกเลือก, ทางเลือก (option), การเลือก (co-optation, election, option), ที่มีคุณภาพดี, ดีเยี่ยม (capital, excel, far-out). (various references) | |
Turkish | tercih (dish, fondness, I prefer, option, predilection, preference), seçme hakkı (freedom, option, right of choice, suffrage), seçme (choosing, co-optation, digest, eclectic, pick, picked, recherche, sampling, select, selection, spotting), seçkinler (beautiful people, cream of society, elite, four hundred, gentry, notables, the great), seçkin sınıf, seçkin (distinguished, eminent, excellent, exclusive, outstanding, picked, pre-eminencent, privileged, prominent, select, selected, topflight, top-hole, top-line, well chosen), seçim (election, elective, poll, polling, selection), seçilen şey, seçenek (alternative, option, pick, selection), kaliteli (classic, glorified, high-toned, jammy, of good quality, of high quality, pukka, qualified, wire-wove), kalburüstü (choicest, select), güzide (distinguished, select), elit, şık (alternative, chic, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market), üstün (above, ascendant, ascendent, atop, atop of, distingue, excellent, extra, golden, high, hyper-, over, predominant, pre-eminencent, preponderant, super, super-, super-duty, superior, supra-, transcendent, unsurpassed, up). (various references) | |
Turkmen | saяlama (chosen, selected). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обранець, добірний (picked, selected), примхливий (arbitrary, capricious, cranky, fanciful, fractious, freak, freakish, huffish, humorous, humous, inconstant, maggoty, naughty, notional, notionate, skittish, whimsey, whimsical, whimsy), альтернатива (alternative, disjunctive), асортимент (assortment), можливість вибору, добір (adoption), обраниця, відбірний (assorted, elect), вибагливий (finical, freakish, pernickety, persnickety, tickle), вибране, вибір (adoption, alternative, assortment, option, preference), вишуканий (accomplished, ambitious, becoming, chic, courtly, dainty, delicate, distinguished, dressmaker, exquisite, fine, foppish, kid glove, minion, nice, nutty, polished, polite, precious, quaint, recherche, trim, way up), витончений (airy, attic, bijou, curious, dainty, delicate, elegant, fastidious, fine, lepid, nice, rarefied, refined, slender, slinky, subtile, subtle, super, twee, zing), відбір (election, pick, selection), найкращий (banner, best, preferable, sunny, superior). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vật được chọn các thứ để chọn tinh hoa, sự lựa chọn quyền chọn, sự lựa, sự chọn, khả năng lựa chọn người được chọn. (various references) | |
Welsh | dewisol (desirable), dewisiad (option), dewis (choose, select), amheuthun (dainty, delicacy, rare, rarity, savory, treat). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arbitratus, arbitrio, arbitrium, consilia, consilii, consiliis, consilio, consiliorum, consilium, consiliumque, cumelecta, dilectum, dilectus, electa, electae, electam, electas, electi, electio, electionem, electionis, electis, electo, electorum, electos, electum, electus, lecta, lectae, lectis, lecto, lectum, lectus, optio, optionem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Labete paideian kai mh argurion kai gnwsin uper crusion dedokimasmenon anqaireisqe de aisqhsin crusiou kaqarou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Accipite disciplinam meam et non pecuniam doctrinam magis quam aurum eligite |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Taketh my discypline, and not money; doctrine mor than tresor cheseth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 8, Verse 10 |
| Bulgarian | Приемете поуката ми, а не сребро, И по-добре знание, нежели избрано злато. |
| Cebuano | Dawata ang akong pagpahamatngon, ug ayaw ang salapi; Ug ang kinaadman kay sa piniling bulawan. |
| Chinese | 你 們 當 受 我 的 教 訓 、 不 受 白 銀 ． 寧 得 知 識 、 勝 過 黃 金 。 |
| Croatian | Primajte radije moju pouku no srebro i znanje požudnije od zlata. |
| Danish | Tag ved Lære, tag ikke mod Sølv, tag mod Kundskab fremfor udsøgt Guld; |
| Dutch | Neemt Mijn tucht aan, en niet zilver, en wetenschap, meer dan het uitgelezen uitgegraven goud. |
| Finnish | Ottakaa minun kuritukseni, älkääkä hopeata, ja tieto ennen valituinta kultaa. |
| French | Préférez mes instructions à l`argent, Et la science à l`or le plus précieux; |
| German | Nehmet an meine Zucht lieber denn Silber, und die Lehre achtet höher denn köstliches Gold. |
| Hungarian | Vegyétek az én tanításomat, és nem a pénzt; és a tudományt inkább, mint a választott aranyat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hargailah nasihatku melebihi perak asli, pentingkanlah pengetahuan melebihi emas murni. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Terimalah pengajaranku, jangan perak; terimalah pengetahuan itu terlebih dari pada emas tua. |
| Italian | Accettate la mia istruzione e non l'argento, la scienza anziché l'oro fino, |
| Maori | Manakohia mai taku ako, kaua te hiriwa; ko te matauranga, nui atu i te koura pai rawa. |
| Norwegian | Ta imot min tilrettevisning istedenfor sølv, og ta imot kunnskap fremfor utsøkt gull! |
| Portuguese | Aceitai antes a minha correção, e não a prata; e o conhecimento, antes do que o ouro escolhido. |
| Rumanian | Primiyi mai de grabq knvqyqturile mele deckt argintul, wi mai de grabq wtiinya de ckt aurul scump. |
| Russian | рТЙНЙФЕ ХЮЕОЙЕ НПЕ, Б ОЕ УЕТЕВТП; МХЮЫЕ ЪОБОЙЕ, ОЕЦЕМЙ ПФВПТОПЕ ЪПМПФП; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "choice": choicely, choiceness, choicenesses, choicer, choices, choicest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "choice": mischoice. (additional references) | |
Words containing "choice": mischoices. (additional references) | |
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"Choice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chauce, Cheuco, chicu, chioce, chioice, choade, choccie, chocco, choco, choi, choicee, choicy, choire, choise, choiss, chosisme, choyce, chuie, Cloyce, hoice. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "choice" (pronounced khoy"s) |
| 2 | -oy" s | rejoice, voice. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: echoic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o" | |
-1 letter: chico. | |
-2 letters: chic, echo. | |
-3 letters: chi, hic, hie, hoe, ice, ich. | |
-4 letters: eh, he, hi, ho, oe, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-i-o" | |
+1 letter: choicer, choices, choreic, conchie. | |
+2 letters: anechoic, choicely, choicest, choleric, conchies, corniche, enchoric, ricochet, zecchino. | |
+3 letters: chicories, chronicle, cochaired, cochineal, cockshies, corniches, echolalic, libecchio, mischoice, ricochets, zecchinos. | |
+4 letters: aircoaches, chalcocite, checkpoint, chiccories, chickenpox, chickories, choiceness, chronicled, chronicler, chronicles, cinchonine, cochairmen, cochineals, cockneyish, colchicine, crocheting, ecchymosis, ecchymotic, escharotic, heroicomic, hiccoughed, libecchios, microfiche, mischoices, octarchies, peacockish, pleochroic, ricocheted, theocratic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Quotations: Speeches 16. Usage Frequency | 17. Names: Frequency 18. Names: Derived from 19. Names: Company Usage 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Bible Trace | 25. Derivations 26. Rhymes 27. Anagrams 28. Bibliography |
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