decide.
To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
Meaning & usage
To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
The election will be decided on foreign policies.
It was decided to meet here at midnight.
To make a judgment, especially after deliberation.
You must decide between good and evil.
I have decided that it is healthier to walk to work.
To cause someone to come to a decision.
Your admonition decided me against my intended course of action.
Of a Turing machine: to return a correct answer (for some yes-or-no problem) on every possible input.
No Turing Machine can decide the halting problem.
To cut off; to separate.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English deciden, from Old French decider, from Latin dēcīdere, infinitive of dēcīdō (“cut off, decide”), from dē (“down from”) + caedō (“cut”).
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