📖 Определения и значения для слова decide
📒 to think carefully about the different possibilities that are available and choose one of them
- It's up to you to decide.
- You will have to decide soon.
- I can't tell you what to do—you'll have to decide for yourself.
📒 to make an official or legal judgement
- decide something The case will be decided by a jury.
- decide for/in favour of somebody | decide in somebody’s favour The Appeal Court decided in their favour.
- decide against somebody It is always possible that the judge may decide against you.
📒 to affect the result of something
- decide something A mixture of skill and good luck decided the outcome of the game.
- decide if, whether, etc… A number of factors decide whether a movie will be successful or not.
📒 to be the reason why somebody does something
- For most customers, price is the deciding factor.
- decide somebody (to do something) They offered me free accommodation for a year, and that decided me.
- decide something (for somebody) That decided it for me: I wasn't carrying my bike back up those stairs.