decider

== English == === Etymology === From decide + -er. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈsaɪdə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ) === Noun === decider (plural deciders) (of a controversy, question, etc) A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides. 1667, anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90: This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions. 1885, Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica, vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190: The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider" (Entschneider). (chiefly UK, Australia, sports) An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter. (computer science) A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input. ==== Synonyms ==== decisor (archaic English; Jewish law) decisionmaker ==== Translations ==== === References === “decider”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. === Anagrams === decried, cidered, Creddie == Interlingua == === Etymology === From English decide, French décider, Italian decidere, Spanish decidir and Portuguese decidir, all ultimately from Latin dēcīdere. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /de.t͡siˈder/ === Verb === decider to decide ==== Conjugation ====