Option vs. Selection — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Option and Selection
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Option
A thing that is or may be chosen
Choose the cheapest options for supplying energy
Selection
The act of selecting something
Looked at the pears and made a careful selection.
Option
Buy or sell an option on
His second script will have been optioned by the time you read this
Selection
One that is selected, such as a literary or musical text chosen for reading or performance
For her last selection she sang an old favorite.
Option
The act of choosing; choice
Her option was to quit school and start her own business.
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Selection
A carefully chosen or representative collection of people or things
A book containing a selection of the author's best work.
Option
The power or freedom to choose
We have the option of driving or taking the train.
Selection
A range of things from which one can make a choice
A store with a wide selection of magazines.
Option
The right, usually obtained for a fee, to buy or sell an asset within a specified time at a set price.
Selection
(Biology) A natural or artificial process that involves the survival and reproduction of some kinds of organisms instead of others (because they have traits that are better adapted to the environment or that are preferred by a breeder, for example) and results in changes in the traits of a population or species.
Option
A contract or financial instrument granting such a right
A stock option.
Selection
The process or act of selecting.
The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
Option
The right to make a movie adaptation of a literary work or play
A movie studio that purchased an option on a book.
Selection
Something selected.
Option
(Baseball) The right of a major-league team to transfer a player to a minor-league team while being able to recall the player within a specified period.
Selection
A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
Option
Something chosen or available as a choice.
Selection
A musical piece.
For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
Option
An item or feature that may be chosen to replace or enhance standard equipment, as in a car.
Selection
(databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
Option
(Football) An offensive play in which a back, usually the quarterback, decides during the play whether to run with the ball, throw a pass, or make a lateral, depending on the actions of the defense.
Selection
(linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
Option
To acquire or grant an option on
"had optioned for a film several short stories about two policemen" (Barbara Goldsmith).
Selection
(programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
Option
(Baseball) To transfer (a major-league player) to a minor-league club on option.
Selection
(algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
Option
One of a set of choices that can be made.
Selection
(historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
Option
The freedom or right to choose.
Selection
(biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp
Option
A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
Selection
(biology) natural selection
Option
The acquiring or retention of a nationality through personal choice as a right, bypassing selective legal mechanisms for naturalization, especially in cases where a territory is transferred or passed on from one state to another.
Selection
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Option
To purchase an option on something.
The new novel was optioned by the film studio, but they'll probably never decide to make a movie from it.
Selection
That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.
Option
To configure, by setting an option.
Selection
The act of choosing or selecting;
Your choice of colors was unfortunate
You can take your pick
Option
The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
There is an option left to the United States of America, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptible and miserable, as a nation.
Selection
An assortment of things from which a choice can be made;
The store carried a large selection of shoes
Option
The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
Transplantation must proceed from the option of the people, else it sounds like an exile.
Selection
The person or thing chosen or selected;
He was my pick for mayor
Option
A wishing; a wish.
Selection
A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
Option
A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; - annulled by Parliament in 1845.
Selection
A passage selected from a larger work;
He presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings
Option
A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit; also, the contract giving that privelege; as, an option to buy a stock at a given price; to exercise an option.
Option
The right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited
Option
One of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;
What option did I have?
There no other alternative
My only choice is to refuse
Option
The act of choosing or selecting;
Your choice of colors was unfortunate
You can take your pick
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