To choose sides. See under Side.

Syn. - To select; prefer; elect; adopt; follow. — To Choose, Prefer, Elect. To choose is the generic term, and denotes to take or fix upon by an act of the will, especially in accordance with a decision of the judgment. To prefer is to choose or favor one thing as compared with, and more desirable than, another, or more in accordance with one's tastes and feelings. To elect is to choose or select for some office, employment, use, privilege, etc., especially by the concurrent vote or voice of a sufficient number of electors. To choose a profession; to prefer private life to a public one; to elect members of Congress.

Choose
(Choose), v. i.

1. To make a selection; to decide.

They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion.
Prescott.

Chondrogenesis
(Chon`dro*gen"e*sis) n. [Gr. cartilage + genesis.] (Physiol.) The development of cartilage.

Chondroid
(Chon"droid) a. [Gr. cartilage + -oid.] Resembling cartilage.

Chondrology
(Chon*drol"o*gy) n. [Gr. cartilage + -logy: cf. F. chondrologie.] (Anat.) The science which treats of cartilages. Dunglison.

Chondroma
(||Chon*dro"ma) n.; pl. Chondromata [NL., fr. Gr. cartilage + -oma.] A cartilaginous tumor or growth.

Chondrometer
(Chon*drom"e*ter) n. [Gr. a grain cartilage + -meter.] A steelyard for weighting grain.

Chondropterygian
(Chon*drop`ter*yg"i*an) a. [Cf. F. chondropterygien.] Having a cartilaginous skeleton.n. One of the Chondropterygii.

Chondropterygii
(||Chon*drop`te*ryg"i*i) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. cartilage + wing, fin.] (Zoöl.) A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins and skeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written also Chondropterygia.]

Chondrostei
(||Chon*dros"te*i) n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. cartilage + bone.] (Zoöl.) An order of fishes, including the sturgeons; — so named because the skeleton is cartilaginous.

Chondrotomy
(Chon*drot"o*my) n. [Gr. + a cutting.] (Anat.) The dissection of cartilages.

Chondrule
(Chon"drule) n. [Dim. from Gr. a grain cartilage.] (Min.) A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imbedded more or less abundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

Choose
(Choose) v. t. [imp. Chose ; p. p. Chosen Chose (Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Choosing.] [OE. chesen, cheosen, AS. ceósan; akin to OS. kiosan, D. kiezen, G. kiesen, Icel. kjosa, Goth. kiusan, L. gustare to taste, Gr. Skr. jush to enjoy. &radic46. Cf. Choice, 2d Gust.]

1. To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

Choose me for a humble friend.
Pope.

2. To wish; to desire; to prefer. [Colloq.]

The landlady now returned to know if we did not choose a more genteel apartment.
Goldsmith.


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