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Bookmark or Share- "Unselect" or "Deselect"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAt the online home of the computer magazine where I work, authors use deselect and unselect to mean the same thing—"to remove from selected status"—though deselect is about five times as common (200 unique matches in a Google search for deselect versus 42 unique matches for unselect).
- word choice - "Choose among" vs. "choose from" - English Language ...@Carlo_R.: To choose from isn't a "phrasal verb". It's just that the "selection pool" relevant to a specific usage of to choose can be optionally specified.
- word choice - Selected among, out of, from, or from between? - English ...I want to say that my paper was selected from a bunch of others, to emphasize that my paper was impressive. How do I say that in a correct way and without using too many words? What I have so far: I was interviewed to discuss the findings of my paper, which was selected out of all/among/from all the other reports...
- word choice - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeThese two words are often used interchangeably and the greatest difference I can find between the two is "choose" for choosing multiple items from a set, and "select" for selecting a single item fr...
- Shall I answer Yes/No to this question?I'm filling an application which asks the following question: You have not attended the X company Selection Process in the last 6 months. * Yes/No I've not attended any selection process. So, sh...
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