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    [Adjective]  | "de*ci*sive" | \ di-ˈsī-siv \


    1: having the power or quality of deciding

    2: resolute, determined

    3: unmistakable, unquestionable


    Origin: 1584 ;

     Borrowed from Middle French & Medieval Latin; Middle French decisif, borrowed from Medieval Latin dēcīsīvus, from Latin dēcīsus, past participle of dēcīdere "to cut off, cut out, mark by cutting, settle, choose as a course of action" + -īvus {see: |-ive|-ive} {mat|decide|};

    [Noun]  | "decisive action" 


    1: an action or actions done quickly and with confidence

    [Noun]  | "decisive/deciding/determining factor" 


    1: the most important reason

    [Adjective]  | "decisive" 


    1: fully committed to achieving a goal;


      * e.g., " ... only a team with a decisive attitude is going to win a state championship "





    2: having the power to persuade;


      * e.g., " ... a lawyer who knows how to construct the kind of decisive argument that sways a jury "





    3: serving to put an end to all debate or questioning;


      * e.g., " ... the decisive finding of the coroner regarding the cause of death "





     [ "decisive" ]

    1: to be sure of a direction and to take it!

      * e.g.,  ... Mary is very decisive and always knows where she's going and what she'll do! 

     [ "The Decision" ]

    1: An hour-long waste of time in which Lebron James and his ego announced on ESPN that he was taking his talents to South Beach and joining the Miami Heat. After the Decision, he teamed up with Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade for the world's biggest circle-jerk in history.

      * e.g.,  ... I wanted to watch SportsCenter for highlights of the baseball game, but they did nothing but talk about The Decision all day. 

     [ "Decision" ]

    1: Something that women have a hard time reaching.

      * e.g.,  ... Woman 1: I don't know about that. Woman 2: Well, since it's your decision, make it! Woman 1: Why? Woman 2: I don't know. It feels right. Woman 1: Are you sure about that? Woman 2: Maybe. Woman 1: Let's go to the mall. Woman 2: Okay! 

     [ "Decisions" ]

    1: When you have to fart a decision has to be made. This term stemmed from an all nighter in SF when my friend Melissa had bad gas and said she couldn't help it. I then explained my theory on how a decision must be made. So, if you have to fart you say: I have a decision to make.

      * e.g.,  ... a. I need to make a decision. 

     [ "Decision" ]

    1: The best fuckin independant rapper on youtube,fuckin amazing flow,and he cant even be touched in a diss battle,check out his channel if y'all dont believe me,DeciMusic on youtube check it.He's also got an album out called One Halfa TP

      * e.g.,  ... Cool guy1:"Yo have you heard of decision? Cool guy2:Ya the youtube rapper right,that guy is amazing!" Faggoty crykoda/xylon fan boy:"wtfz Decision sux b4allz" Cool guy 1 & 2 precced to ebat th shit outta fag boy 

     [ "decisions" ]

    1: what you aren't good at.

      * e.g.,  ... "Have you made a choice?" 

     [ "decisioning" ]

    1: the process of deciding on the correct course of action i.e a decisioning tool or utility would decide the best route to follow given a number of options.

      * e.g.,  ... sat nav could be defined as a decisioning tool as it decides on the best route to take to get to a destination. 

     [ "decision lane" ]

    1: The vaguely-triangular strip of road separating a highway exit from the actual off-ramp. So named because drivers will use the space to stop and make decisions, merge through to the off-ramp after making split-second decisions, and/or crash into water-filled barrels or exit signs contained therein after failing to properly make a decision.

      * e.g.,  ... (To a passenger) Did you see that guy cut through the decision lane? 

     [ "cupcake decision" ]

    1: Similar to Cocaine Decision an irrationally optimistic impulsive decision to start a vintage or retro small business, with no idea of who will actually pay good money for the flowery-heart-craft-thing, wavy hair or indeed cupcake, that is proposed.

      * e.g.,  ... "It's on handmade paper with natural dyes and each one takes 2 hours of my time so I think fifteen pounds for a birthday card is fair, right?" "I love the whole retro look and at least 2 of my friends bought some off me so everyone will..." "Have you thought that through? sounds like a cupcake decision to me..." 

     [ "decision stream" ]

    1: Decision stream - a statistic-based supervised learning technique that generates a deep directed acyclic graph of decision rules to solve classification and regression tasks

      * e.g.,  ... By increasing the number of samples in each node and reducing the tree width, the Decision stream preserves statistically representative data and allows extremely deep graph architecture that can consist of hundreds of levels. 

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