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Sell vs Sele - What's the difference?

sell | sele |

As nouns the difference between sell and sele

is that sell is an act of selling or sell can be (obsolete) a seat or stool while sele is happiness, fortune.

As a verb sell

is (intransitive) to transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.

sell

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sellen, from (etyl) , Icelandic selja.

Verb

  • (intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
  • * Bible, (w) xix. 21
    • If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
  • (ergative) To be sold.
  • To promote a particular viewpoint.
  • (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
  • * (Charles Dickens)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 12, author=Saj Chowdhury, work=BBC
    • , title= Liverpool 2-1 Liverpool , passage=Raul Meireles was the victim of the home side's hustling on this occasion giving the ball away to the impressive David Vaughan who slipped in Taylor-Fletcher. The striker sold Daniel Agger with the best dummy of the night before placing his shot past keeper Pepe Reina.}}
  • (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.
    • Antonyms
    * buy
    Derived terms
    * sell-by date * sell-out * sell-outs * sell-through * sell down * sell down the river * sell ice to Eskimos * sell like hotcakes * sell one's soul * sell out * sell refrigerators to Eskimos * sell wolf tickets

    Quotations

    * To trick, or cheat someone. *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of selling.
    • This is going to be a tough sell .
  • An easy task.
  • * 1922': What a '''sell for Lena! - (Katherine Mansfield), ''The Doll's House (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 354)
  • (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
  • * 1919 ,
    • "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it."

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) selle, from (etyl) sella.

    Alternative forms

    * selle (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A seat or stool.
    • (Fairfax)
  • (archaic) A saddle.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
    • turning to that place, in which whyleare / He left his loftie steed with golden sell , / And goodly gorgeous barbes, him found not theare [...].

    Anagrams

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    sele

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Happiness, fortune.
  • The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment.
  • greeting, salutation
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1862 , year_published= , author=George Borrow , title=Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery , chapter=Chapter XXXV citation , genre=Fiction , publisher=Read Central , isbn= , page= , passage= I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, ...}}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1897 , year_published=2005 , author=William Morris , title=The Water of the Wondrous Isles , chapter=Chapter XIV. The Black Knight Tells the Truth of Himself , url= , genre=Fantasy , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=When the morning was come ... so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, ...}}

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