Chose vs Picked - What's the difference?
chose | picked |
(choose)
(pick)
(obsolete) pointed; sharp
* Chapman
* Mortimer
(zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
(obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
* 1590 , , V. i. 13:
* 1596 , , I. i. 193:
As verbs the difference between chose and picked
is that chose is simple past of choose while picked is past tense of pick.As a noun chose
is a thing; personal property.As an adjective picked is
pointed; sharp.chose
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) (lena) . See cause.Derived terms
* chose in action * chose in possession * chose local * chose transitoryAnagrams
* English irregular simple past forms ----picked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Picked and polished.
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
- the picked dogfish
- He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
- Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries: