Difference between Select and Take

What is the difference between Select and Take?

Select as a verb is to choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. while Take as a verb is to grasp with the hands.

Select

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Privileged, specially selected. Of high quality; top-notch.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

Example sentence: Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

Take

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of taking.Something that is taken.A (1) profit, (2) reward, (3) bribe, illegal payoff or unethical kickback.An interpretation or view.An attempt to record a scene.A catch.A facial gesture in response to an event.A catch of the ball, especially by the wicket-keeper.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To grasp with the hands.To grab and move to oneself.To get into one's possession.To accept.To gain a position by force.To have sex forcefully with, possibly without consent.To carry, particularly to a particular destination.To choose.To support or carry without failing or breaking.To endure or cope with.To not swing at a pitchTo ingest medicine, drugs, etc.To assume or interpret to be.To enroll (in a class, or a course of study).To participate in, undergo, or experience.To tighten (take up) a belaying rope. Often used imperatively.To fight or attempt to fight somebody. (See also take on.)To stick, persist, thrive or remain.To become.To catch the ball; especially for the wicket-keeper to catch the ball after the batsman has missed or edged it.To require.To capture using a photographic camera.To last or expend [an amount of time].To useTo consider as an instance or example.

Example sentence: Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

We hope you now know whether to use Select or Take in your sentence.

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