decider
See also: décider
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decider (plural deciders)
- (of a controversy, question, etc) 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:
- This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
- 1758, Aaron Leaming, Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey, Philadelphia, page 680:
- The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
- 1885, Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica, vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190:
- The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider" (Entschneider).
- 1967 March 15, David P. Gauthier, “How Decisions are Caused”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 64, number 5, page 151:
- Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
- 2006 April 18, George W. Bush, quotee, “President Bush Announces Appointment of New Budget Director”, in Washington Post[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2018-06-28:
- I have strong confidence in Don Rumsfeld. I hear the voices. And I read the front page. And I know the speculation. But I'm the decider and I decide what is best.
- 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
- As noted, the frontal cortex is central to executive function. To quote George W. Bush, within the frontal cortex, it's the PFC that is “the decider.”
- 1667, anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90:
- (chiefly British, Australia, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
- 2021 December 27, “Gerwyn Price beats Kim Huybrechts in fiery clash to keep title defence alive”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN:
- Tensions threatened to boil over before the defending champion Gerwyn Price eventually overcame Kim Huybrechts in a sudden-death decider to reach the last 16 of the PDC World Championship.
- (computer science) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
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a person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides
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an event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter
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a Turing machine that halts regardless of its input
References edit
- “decider”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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Interlingua edit
Etymology edit
From English decide, French décider, Italian decidere, Spanish decidir and Portuguese decidir, all ultimately from Latin dēcīdere.
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Verb edit
decider
- to decide
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Conjugation of decider
infinitive | decider | ||
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participle | present | perfect | |
decidente | decidite | ||
active | simple | perfect | |
present | decide | ha decidite | |
past | decideva | habeva decidite | |
future | decidera | habera decidite | |
conditional | deciderea | haberea decidite | |
imperative | decide | ||
passive | simple | perfect | |
present | es decidite | ha essite decidite | |
past | esseva decidite | habeva essite decidite | |
future | essera decidite | habera essite decidite | |
conditional | esserea decidite | haberea essite decidite | |
imperative | sia decidite |