Selection and Drafting

noun

• The act of choosing or selecting.
  • usage: "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"
  • synonyms: choice, option, pick
• An assortment of things from which a choice can be made.
  • usage: "the store carried a large selection of shoes"
• The person or thing chosen or selected.
  • usage: "he was my pick for mayor"
  • synonyms: choice, pick
• A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.
  • synonyms: survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection
• A passage selected from a larger work.
  • usage: "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"
  • synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract

• (n.) That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books.
• (n.) The act of selecting or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

noun

• Writing a first version to be filled out and polished later.
• The craft of drawing blueprints.
  • synonyms: mechanical drawing
• The creation of artistic pictures or diagrams.
  • usage: "he learned drawing from his father"
  • synonyms: drawing, draftsmanship

verb

• Draw up an outline or sketch for something.
  • usage: "draft a speech"
  • synonyms: draft, outline
• Engage somebody to enter the army.
  • synonyms: enlist, draft, muster in
• Make a blueprint of.
  • synonyms: blueprint, draft, draught