Adduce vs Select - What's the difference?
adduce | select | Related terms |
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
:* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
:* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
:* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
:* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -
Privileged, specially selected.
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*:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Of high quality; top-notch.
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To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
Adduce is a related term of select.
As a verb adduce
is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.As an adjective select is
select.adduce
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Synonyms
* present * allege * advance * cite * quote * assign * urge * name * mentionReferences
* ----select
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Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(en verb)- He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
- The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
