Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun one who
chooses something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who chooses or selects out
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Examples
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The infringer -- who steals gags and points bodily -- can be pursued and punished under the copyright law, but the chooser is a kind of sneak thief who works gags and points around to escape taking criminal chances, making his material just enough different to evade the law.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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The "chooser" in the old Mac platform used to be the kind of thing I could (and did) explain to my grandmother, but the OS X Print Center is a giant, non-intuitive pain the ass.
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The "chooser" in the old Mac platform used to be the kind of thing I could (and did) explain to my grandmother, but the OS X Print Center is a giant, non-intuitive pain the ass.
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Now here's the way I once heard a 'chooser' [1] do it.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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The first appearance of the hairetikos anthropos, the "chooser" of his own way rather than the common sense of the Church, is in Tit. iii.
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Mobile WiFI Stumbler is "finer-grain" than the WiFI detecting and reporting displayed by the "chooser" applications on most WiFI-enabled devices, Biswas notes.
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Mobile WiFI Stumbler is "finer-grain" than the WiFI detecting and reporting displayed by the "chooser" applications on most WiFI-enabled devices, Biswas notes.
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Mobile WiFI Stumbler is "finer-grain" than the WiFI detecting and reporting displayed by the "chooser" applications on most WiFI-enabled devices, Biswas notes.
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The source of the misunderstanding, Wallace continued, was the name itself, in that it implies "the constant watching of an intelligent 'chooser' like man's selection to which you so often compare it," and that "thought and direction are essential to the action of 'Natural Selection.'"
3quarksdaily 2009
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The two last cases of this misunderstanding are (1) the article on "Darwin and his Teachings" in the last _Quarterly Journal of Science_, which, though very well written and on the whole appreciative, yet concludes with a charge of something like blindness, in your not seeing that Natural Selection requires the constant watching of an intelligent "chooser," like man's selection to which you so often compare it; and (2) in Janet's recent work on the
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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