Select vs Deselect - What's the difference?
select | deselect |
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 not select; to rule out of selection.
(British, politics) To reject (an MP) as constituency candidate at a forthcoming election.
* 2007': One recently '''deselected Sinn Féin assembly member, Davy Hyland in Newry and Armagh, has already quit the party in protest. — ''The Guardian 5th Jan 2007, p. 3
As verbs the difference between select and deselect
is that select is to choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options while deselect is to not select; to rule out of selection.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.