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Dictionary: opt   (ŏpt) pronunciation
 
intr.v., opt·ed, opt·ing, opts.

To make a choice or decision: opted for early retirement; opted not to go.

phrasal verb:

opt out Slang.

  1. To choose not to participate in something: “give individual schools the right to opt out of the local educational authority” (Newsweek).

[French opter, from Old French, from Latin optāre.]


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Decide or make a choice. For example, an individual may opt to lease rather than purchase facilities.

 
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verb

    To make a choice from a number of alternatives. choose, cull, elect, pick (out), select, single (out). See choice.

 
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Look up opt, opt out, or opt-out in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Opt may refer to:

  • /opt, a directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
  • Opt out, in broadcasting, when a nation or region splits from the main national output
  • Opt-out, to avoid receiving unsolicited product or service information
  • Opting out, a political expression in Canada, describing the intention of a province to remove itself from a program administered by the federal government
  • Opt in e-mail, the option to receive bulk e-mail

The abbreviation Opt may refer to:

The acronym OPT may refer to:

  • Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Optional Practical Training, a temporary employment authorization for F-1 students
  • Optical Projection Tomography, a technique for 3D imaging of biological samples in research
  • The Optimum Performance Training (OPT) Model an approach to fitness and gym training
  • Optimized Production Technology, a production planning system created by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Optimum Population Trust, a UK charity devoted to tackling overpopulation.
  • ounces per tonne, a unit of measure used (often in mining) to indicate the amount of a substance in a sample. For example, "0.24 opt gold" indicates that every ton of mined material contains 0.24 ounces gold.

Computing

Optimal page replacement algorithm (OPT) is a page replacement algorithm for swaping out pages from memory

The acronym oPt may refer to:


 
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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - vælge

idioms:

  • opt in    vælge at være med
  • opt out    vælge ikke at være med

Nederlands (Dutch)
kiezen

Français (French)
v. intr. - opter pour, choisir

idioms:

  • opt in    décider de participer, accepter le contrôle de l'État
  • opt out    décider de ne pas participer, renoncer au contrôle de l'État (une école, un hôpital)

Deutsch (German)
v. - wählen

idioms:

  • opt in    beitreten
  • opt out    sich drücken vor

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - προκρίνω, προτιμώ, διαλέγω, επιλέγω υπηκοότητα
abbr. - οπτικός

idioms:

  • opt out    αποχωρώ, αποσύρω τη συμμετοχή μου από, εγκαταλείπω

Italiano (Italian)
optare, scegliere, preferire

idioms:

  • opt in    associarsi a
  • opt out (of)    dissociarsi da

Português (Portuguese)
v. - optar, escolher

idioms:

  • opt in    participar
  • opt out (of)    desistir de

Русский (Russian)
выбрать

idioms:

  • opt in    принять решение в пользу чего-либо
  • opt out (of)    отказаться, уклониться

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - optar

idioms:

  • opt in    optar por participar o colaborar
  • opt out    borrarse, desentenderse, abandonar, optar por no participar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - välja
abbr. - optician(optiker), optimal, optics(optik)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
选择

idioms:

  • opt in    决定参加
  • opt out    决定不参加, 决定退出

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 選擇

idioms:

  • opt in    決定參加
  • opt out    決定不參加, 決定退出

한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 탈퇴하다

idioms:

  • opt in    ~선택하다
  • opt out    ~에서 손을 떼다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 選ぶ

idioms:

  • opt in    参加を決める
  • opt out (of)    抜ける

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يقرر ( لصالح شي ما) (اختصار) Optical, بصري, مرئي, لمOغكساسحظ, النظاراتي, لمOغكسا البصريات, علم النور والمرئيات, لمOغكسعظحض, اختياري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮העדיף, בחר, ברר‬


 
 
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