Decider vs Decides - What's the difference?
decider | decides |
A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
* 1667 , anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
* 1758 , Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey , Philadelphia, p. 680:
* 1885 , Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica , vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
* 1967 , , "How Decisions are Caused," The Journal of Philosophy, vol 64 no 5, 15 Mar, p. 151:
* 2006 April 18, , White House press conference, Washington, DC:
(chiefly, British, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
* 2007 Feb 22 (action)'',
* 2007 Feb. 10 (event)'',
(computing) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
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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 a noun decider
is a person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.As a verb decides is
.decider
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Noun
(en noun)- This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
- The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
- The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider " (Entschneider ).
- Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
- "I'm the decider , and I decide what is best."
Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic''Guardian Sport :
- . . . when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider .
France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice, ''Guardian Sport :
- France will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool.
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* English agent nouns ----decides
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Verb
(head)decide
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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.