Select vs Downselect - What's the difference?
select | downselect |
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.
to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration
As verbs the difference between select and downselect
is that select is to choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options while downselect is to narrow the field of choices, especially, to choose a supplier from candidates under consideration.As an adjective select
is privileged, specially selected.As a noun Select
is a button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.select
English
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.
Synonyms
* (to choose) choose, optAnagrams
*downselect
English
Verb
(en verb)- We need to check with Quality Assurance before we downselect the test equipment vendor.