Brainstorm vs Decide - What's the difference?
brainstorm | decide |
(US) A sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.
brainstorming
(British) An unexpected mental error.
*2005, "Iguchi hit ruins Red Sox's night",
To investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming.
To participate in a brainstorming session.
To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
* Shakespeare
To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
* Bible, 1 Kings xx. 40
To cause someone to come to a decision.
* 1920 , , "The Adventure of the Three Gables" (Norton edition, 2005, p. 1537),
(obsolete) To cut off; to separate.
* Fuller
As verbs the difference between brainstorm and decide
is that brainstorm is to investigate something, or solve a problem using brainstorming while decide is .As a noun brainstorm
is (us) a sudden thought, particularly one that solves a long-standing problem.brainstorm
English
Noun
(en noun)- I had been working on the problem for weeks, and then I had a brainstorm and saw that the solution was easy.
BBC Online, 5 October
- A terrible fielding error from Tony Graffanino proved costly. [...] Aaron Rowand collected an RBI double to get them off the mark before Graffanino's brainstorm . Juan Uribe hit a roller to the second baseman, who let the potential inning-ending double-play ball roll under his glove, leaving runners at first and third bases.
Verb
(en verb)decide
English
Verb
(decid)- The election will be decided on foreign policies.
- We must decide our next move.
- Her last-minute goal decided the game.
- The quarrel toucheth none but us alone; / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.
- You must decide between good and evil.
- I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
- So shall thy judgment be; thyself hast decided it.
- 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.
- Our seat denies us traffic here; / The sea, too near, decides us from the rest.
