I use "deselect" in my technical manuals to indicate that the user should select something else or nothing at all.
Example
On the desktop of many operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac...) you can select an item with a single click and you deselect by clicking where there is no item (an 'empty' part of the desktop.
deselect, not select, not choosing, etc
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ctrl+D
Click outside of image area.
The opposite of the word to chose is to deny, fire, refuse or reject. For example, you can chose someone for a job but the opposite would be to deny them for a job.
To deselect your current selection in Photoshop, go to "Select", then from the drop-down box choose "Deselect". A shortcut for this on a computer with Windows is to press Control+D, or Command+D on a Mac. If you want to choose a different layer, simply click on a different layer in the layers menu, or click on empty space to deselect all layers.
deselect, not select, not choosing, etc
Most of the time, you can right-click over the area where the toolbars are located and deselect the ones you don't want. Or you can go to "View"-->"Toolbars" and then deselect from there.
Go to msconfig in the run command and deselect it
Go to "Configure this place" in the my places options, and deselect "Copylocked"
Command key+D Or go to Image, and hit deselect.
Deselect "Enable AnswerTips" at http://www.answers.com/main/transoptform?gwp=8
Press ESC or click somewhere else on the page.
this can be done by holding ctrl and then pressing 'h'. this will bring up the tool bar and just deselect it then.