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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Choice \Choice\, a. [Compar. {Choicer}; superl. {Choicest}.]
1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior;
precious; valuable.
My choicest hours of life are lost. --Swift.
2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; --
used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
3. Selected with care, and due attention to preference;
deliberately chosen.
Choice word measured phrase. --Wordsworth.
Syn: Syn. - Select; precious; exquisite; uncommon; rare;
chary; careful/
Choice \Choice\ (chois), n. [OE. chois, OF. chois, F. choix, fr.
choisir to choose; of German origin; cf. Goth. kausjan to
examine, kiusan to choose, examine, G. kiesen. [root]46. Cf.
{Choose}.]
1. Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or
separating from two or more things that which is
preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one
thing to another; election.
2. The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take
be so in our power that we might have refused it.
--Hooker.
3. Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing
what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference;
discrimination.
I imagine they [the apothegms of C[ae]sar] were
collected with judgment and choice. --Bacon.
4. A sufficient number to choose among. --Shak.
5. The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and
selected in preference to others; selection.
The common wealth is sick of their own choice.
--Shak.
6. The best part; that which is preferable.
The flower and choice Of many provinces from bound
to bound. --Milton.
{To make a choice of}, to choose; to select; to separate and
take in preference.
Syn: Syn. - See {Volition}, {Option}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
choice
adj 1: of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize
carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: {prime(a)},
{prize}, {quality}, {select}]
2: appealing to refined taste; "choice wine"
choice
n 1: the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for
mayor" [syn: {pick}, {selection}]
2: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was
unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: {selection},
{option}, {pick}]
3: one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;
"what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative";
"my only choice is to refuse" [syn: {option}, {alternative}]