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# decide

«decide» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make up your mind, to choose after thinking: I decided…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (decide, decides, decided, deciding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To decide is to make up your mind, to choose after thinking: I decided to stay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#m1)

2) To decide is to settle something, to make the result clear: One goal decided the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

choosing between operations, such as adding or taking away («First decide: coming together or going away?»); in class decide the steps of a problem; in everyday life deciding what to eat or play; in stories a character decides what to do and that moves the plot; noun «decision»

### examples

- First decide: are things coming together, or going away? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x1)
- Decide what the question asks before you work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x2)
- Tim decides to give 4 cards to Ben. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x3)
- We decided to go to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x4)
- I can't decide between pizza and pasta. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x5)
- The class voted to decide the name of our fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x6)
- One goal decided the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x7)
- She decided to tell the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x8)
- So he decided to take a wife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/#x9)

### note

A study rule: decide the direction of change before calculating. No operation clue by itself. Trap: in a story «decides to give 4» is a plan; the count changes when the giving happens. Noun «decision».

### In the corpora

- [A job interview is a meeting where an employer asks questions to decide whom to hire; several people usually compete for one job.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/8/)
- [A "For Sale" board means the family has decided to sell the house, and selling usually takes months, not days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/8/)
- [Disagreeing is normal; talking it through is how couples decide things together.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/14-grown-ups-who-argue-and-make-up/11/)
- [It fixes roads, empties bins, runs parks and libraries, and decides on planning: whether people may build big extensions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/33-neighbours-the-council-rules-and-fairness/3/)
- [A CV is a short, honest document about your skills, results and work, which employers read to decide whom to meet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «decide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.