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Arrive vs Decision - What's the difference?

arrive | decision |

As a verb arrive

is .

As a noun decision is

decision.

arrive

English

Verb

  • (copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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  • To obtain a level of success or fame.
  • * 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
  • Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
  • To come; said of time.
  • The time has arrived for us to depart.
  • To happen or occur.
  • * Waller
  • Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
  • (archaic) To reach; to come to.
  • * Milton
  • Ere he arrive the happy isle.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
  • * Tennyson
  • Arrive at last the blessed goal.
  • (obsolete) To bring to shore.
  • * Chapman
  • and made the sea-trod ship arrive them

    Usage notes

    * Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.

    Antonyms

    * depart

    decision

    English

    Noun

  • A choice or judgement.
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  • (uncountable) Firmness of conviction.
  • (chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.
  • (baseball) A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.
  • Usage notes

    * (choice or judgment) Most often, to decide something is to make a decision; however, other possibilities exist as well. Many verbs used with destination or conclusion, such as reach, (term), and (term) can also be used with (term); these serve to emphasize that the decision is the result of deliberation. Finally, some varieties of English prefer to take a decision rather than make one. * See for uses and meaning of decision collocated with these words. * Adjectives often applied to "decision": important, difficult, big, tough, bad, informed, easy, personal, smart, poor, good, quick, major, strategic, wise, serious, hard, stupid, hasty, responsible, complex, prudent, deliberate, significant, collective, delayed, challenging, careful, foolish, small, rash, thoughtful, slow, clever, forced, uninformed.

    Derived terms

    * decisioning * decision making * decision tree * decision problem * decision procedure * decision theory * indecision

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (boxing) To defeat an opponent by a decision of the judges, rather than by a knockout