Decide vs Arbitrate - What's the difference?
decide | arbitrate |
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
To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
* Shakespeare
To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
(mathematics, rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it
As verbs the difference between decide and arbitrate
is that decide is while arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter.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.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeSynonyms
* make up one's mind * choose * determine * pickarbitrate
English
Verb
- to arbitrate a disputed case
- There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.
- We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...