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Select vs Choise - What's the difference?

select | choise |

As nouns the difference between select and choise

is that 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predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items while choise is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective select

is privileged, specially selected.

As a verb select

is to choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

select

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Privileged, specially selected.
  • :
  • * (1800-1859)
  • *:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • :

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
    • 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, opt

    Related terms

    * elect * election * elective * elite * selection * selective

    Anagrams

    *

    choise

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1845, author=Mrs. Thomson, title=Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Since this then is plainly the case, there can be no choise in dying honourably in the field for so just a cause, or leving to see the ruin and intire destruction of our country, our King, and our friends and relations. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1652, author=Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, title=Chocolate= or, An Indian Drinke, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And therefore my desire is, to take this paines, for the pleasure, and profit of the publicke; endeavouring to accommodate it to the content of all, according to the variety of those things, wherewith it may be mixt; that so every man may make choise of that, which shal be most agreeable to his disposition. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1602, author=William Shakespeare, title=The Merry Wives of Windsor, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Tis not vnknown to you, The feruent loue I'' beare to young ''Anne Page'', And mutally her loue againe to mee: But her father still against her choise , Doth seeke to marrie her to foolish ''Slender'', 10 And in a robe of white this night disguised, Wherein fat ''Falstaffe'' had a mightie scare, Must ''Slender'' take her and carrie her to ''Catlen , And there vnknowne to any, marrie her. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1592, author=Philippe de Mornay, title=A Discourse of Life and Death, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Behold him now, according to his wish, at libertie: in that age, wherein Hercules had the choise , to take the way of vertue or of vice, reason or passion for his guide, and of these two must take one. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1504, author=Nicholas Udall, title=Roister Doister, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye shall haue choise of a thousande as good as shee, And ye must pardon hir, it is for lacke of witte. }}