Choose vs Chore - What's the difference?
choose | chore |
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.
A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
(US, dated) To do chores.
(British, informal) To steal.
As verbs the difference between choose and chore
is that choose is to pick; to make the choice of; to select while chore is to do chores.As nouns the difference between choose and chore
is that choose is the act of choosing; selection while chore is a task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.As a conjunction choose
is the binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.choose
English
(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''".
See also
* (projectlink)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(chooses)References
* * *chore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ). See also char .Noun
(chores)- Washing dishes is a chore , but we cannot just stop eating.