decides
Saydi-SYDZ/dɪˈsaɪdz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of decide.
The committee decides which projects receive funding this year.
Whoever arrives first decides where the group will eat.
Note
The -s form carries every use of the verb, and the subject usually shows which one is meant. A person or committee decides a question, or simply decides after deliberating. In the causative use a circumstance decides someone, bringing them to a choice ("the rain decides her"). In computing, a Turing machine decides a yes-or-no problem when it answers correctly on every input. The old sense "cut off" is obsolete.
decides is a form of decide
decide, verb: To reach a judgment about something, especially after careful deliberation. Full entry
- Spelling
- decide → decides: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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