What does opt mean?

Definitions for opt
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. choose, prefer, optverb

    select as an alternative over another

    "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"

Wiktionary

  1. optverb

    To choose; to select.

  2. Etymology: From opter, from optare “to choose” or "to select"

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  1. OPT

    OPT or Opt may refer for:

ChatGPT

  1. opt

    1) As a verb: To make a choice; to select an available option or deciding on a course of action. 2) In terms of computing: It stands for optimization, referring to the process of improving the efficiency or effectiveness of a system or software.

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British National Corpus

  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'opt' in Verbs Frequency: #773

Anagrams for opt »

  1. OTP

  2. pot

  3. PTO

  4. top

  5. TPO

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of opt in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of opt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of opt in a Sentence

  1. Paul Maguire:

    After we're given the 'all clear' and you're ready to venture out of your home and into other cities, where are you going to want to stay? you'd be more likely to opt for a short-term house rental than checking into a big Marriott filled with hundreds of strangers.

  2. Chief Executive Tom Enders:

    Pooling our requirements should be done intelligently and not in a highly politicized, nationally fragmented way, this is something I will look for to be employed on this (surveillance drone) project. I would not be shy to opt out of projects if I get the impression that this would be?.?.?.?a recipe for disaster.

  3. Bart Staes:

    Countries opposed to GMOs are given the carrot of being able to opt-out of these authorisations, but the scheme approved today fails to give them a legally-watertight basis for doing so. This is a false solution.

  4. Anthony Myint:

    This issue of climate change, is obviously massive and future generations dont have the chance to opt out, we as chefs want to do the right thing and shopping organic and at farmers markets doesnt really feel like enough.

  5. Mike Ingram:

    For me it's a cumulative effect. We had Paris, and then Brussels, then France again and then a coup... It seems as though holidaymakers were delaying and hoping to book at the last minute, so a stock like Thomas Cook will be hit, given the depreciation of sterling, given the security concerns and given that people might opt for.

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