Allot vs Choose - What's the difference?
allot | choose | Related terms |
To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot
To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.
To elect.
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To decide to act in a certain way.
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To wish; to desire; to prefer.
*(Oliver Goldsmith) (1730-1774)
*:The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
(mathematics) The binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) The act of choosing; selection.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) The power, right, or privilege of choosing; election.
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Scope for choice.
Allot is a related term of choose.
As verbs the difference between allot and choose
is that allot is to distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot while choose is to pick; to make the choice of; to select.As a conjunction choose is
(mathematics) the binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.As a noun choose is
(dialectal|or|obsolete) the act of choosing; selection.allot
English
(wikipedia allot)Verb
(allott)Anagrams
*choose
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(Choice)Alternative forms
* chuseEtymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Verb
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- The number of distinct subsets of size ''k'' from a set of size ''n'' is or "''n'' choose ''k''".
