different between election vs select

English

Etymology

From Middle English eleccioun, eleccion, from Anglo-Norman eleccioun, from Latin ?lecti?n-, stem of ?lecti? (“choice, selection”), from ?lig? (“I pluck out, I choose”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-l?k'sh?n, IPA^(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??l?k?(?)n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: elect?ion

Noun

election (countable and uncountable, plural elections)

1. A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors, or other representatives by popular vote.

   The parliamentary election(s) will be held in March.

   How did you vote in (UK also: at) the last election?
2. The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.

   The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.

3. An option that is selected.

4. (archaic) Any conscious choice.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Followers and Friends

     To use men with much difference and election is good.

   • 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress

     The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]

5. (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
6. (obsolete) Those who are elected.

   • The election hath obtained it.

Synonyms

• (theology): chosenness

Hyponyms

• direct election
• general election
• indirect election
• primary election
• snap election

Derived terms

• by-election
• electioneer
• electioneering
• pre-election, preelection

Related terms

Translations

See also

• psephology

See also

• Election on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Predestination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Middle French

Noun

election f (plural elections)

1. choice; selection (person, object that is selected)
2. election (act or process of being elected to an office)

English

Etymology

From Latin s?l?ctus, perfect passive participle of s?lig? (“choose out, select”), from s?- (“without; apart”) + leg? (“gather, select”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt
• Hyphenation: se?lect

Adjective

select (comparative more select, superlative most select)

1. Privileged, specially selected.
   • 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.

2. Of high quality; top-notch.

Translations

Verb

select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)

1. 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.

2. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

Synonyms

• (to choose): choose, opt

Antonyms

• deselect

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• celest, elects, scelet

Romanian

Etymology

From French select.

Adjective

select m or n (feminine singular select?, masculine plural selec?i, feminine and neuter plural selecte)

1. select

Declension