PRECHOOSE Synonyms

• appointed but not yet installed in office

• assign a name or title to

• give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

• indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

• decree or designate beforehand

• design or destine

• establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study

• shape or influence; give direction to

• fix conclusively or authoritatively

• decide upon or fix definitely

• reach, make, or come to a decision about something

• fix in scope; fix the boundaries of

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

• an exclusive group of people

• selected as the best

• elected but not yet installed in office

• select by a vote for an office or membership

• choose

• a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop

• predict in advance

• judge to be probable

• indicate, as with a sign or an omen

• select as an alternative over another

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the quantity of a crop that is harvested

• the best people or things in a group

• the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

• a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

• a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

• a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body

• the act of choosing or selecting

• select carefully from a group

• look for and gather

• harass with constant criticism

• provoke

• remove in small bits

• remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits

• pilfer or rob

• pay for something

• pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

• attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

• hit lightly with a picking motion

• eat intermittently; take small bites of

• a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished

• an arrangement scheme

• scale drawing of a structure

• have the will and intention to carry out some action

• make plans for something

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc

• prepare for eating by applying heat

• to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery

• arrange by systematic planning and united effort

• educate for a future role or function

• create by training and teaching

• lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord

• undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession

• of superior grade

• selected or chosen for special qualifications

• pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives

• a long wooden bench with a back

• settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground

• bring to an end; settle conclusively

• settle conclusively; come to terms

• take up residence and become established

• come to terms

• go under

• become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

• become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet

• establish or develop as a residence

• come to rest

• arrange or fix in the desired order

• accept despite lack of complete satisfaction

• end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement

• dispose of; make a financial settlement

• become clear by the sinking of particles

• cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)

• sink down or precipitate

• fix firmly

• get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury

• make final; put the last touches on; put into final form

• form a community

• come as if by falling