Enlist vs Select - What's the difference?
enlist | select |
To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
To join a cause or organization, especially military service.
To recruit the aid or membership of others.
To secure, to obtain.
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, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 Privileged, specially selected.
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* (1800-1859)
*: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.
As a verb enlist
is to enter on a list; to enroll; to register.As an adjective select is
select.enlist
English
Verb
(en verb)- The army wants potential soldiers to enlist .
- We enlisted fifty new members.
- They enlisted government's support.
citation, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. … .”}}
Anagrams
* * * * *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.