Enlist vs Choose - What's the difference?
enlist | choose |
To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
To join a cause or organization, especially military service.
To recruit the aid or membership of others.
To secure, to obtain.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 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.
As verbs the difference between enlist and choose
is that enlist is to enter on a list; to enroll; to register while choose is to pick; to make the choice of; to select.As a conjunction choose is
the binomial coefficient of the previous and following number.As a noun choose is
the act of choosing; selection.enlist
English
Verb
(en verb)- The army wants potential soldiers to enlist .
- We enlisted fifty new members.
- They enlisted government's support.
citation, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. … .”}}
Anagrams
* * * * *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''".
