2021-01-07
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Select – selected
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Select = ‘si-LEKT’
Farlex Trivia Dictionary.
select
- elegant = Comes from Latin eligere, "select."
- eximious = Means "choice, excellent, select," or "distinguished."
- garble = Originally meant "to sort out" or "to select in a biased way,"
and was applied to the selectionand sorting out of individual passages from a person's writings or any separation of the good from the bad,
of a selection of the worstand setting aside the better;
it evolved to mean "to jumble, scramble."
- select - From Latin legere, "choose," with the prefix se-, "apart."
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms.
Select
= a selection;
= a selected group of people or things;
= a part of a public house set aside.
Examples: a select of friends and acquaintances, 1733; of oysters, 1881.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Select & selected
“Select” means “special, chosen because of its outstanding qualities.”
If you are writing an ad for a furniture store
offering low prices on some of its recliners,
call them “selected recliners,” not“select recliners,”
unless they are truly outstanding and not just leftovers
you’re trying to move out of the store.
