Select
[sɪ'lekt] or [sə'lɛkt]
Definition
(a.) Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.
(v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Choose, pick, cull, prefer, pick out, single out, pitch upon, fix upon.
a. Selected, chosen, picked, rare, choice, good, excellent, exquisite.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Choice, picked, fine, prime, chosen, selected, excellent
ANT:Haphazard, common, average, unselect, coarse, ordinary
SYN:Cull, pick_choose, segregate, elect, prefer
ANT:Lump, confound, sweep
Editor: Sasha
Definition
v.t. to pick out from a number by preference: to choose: to cull.—adj. picked out: nicely chosen: choice: exclusive.—adj. Selec′ted.—adv. Selec′tedly.—ns. Selec′tedness; Selec′tion act of selecting: things selected: a book containing select pieces.—adj. Selec′tive.—adv. Selec′tively by selection.—ns. Select′man in New England towns one of a board of officers chosen annually to manage various local concerns; Select′ness; Select′or.—Select meeting in the Society of Friends a meeting of ministers and elders.—Natural selection the preservation of some forms of animal and vegetable life and the destruction of others by the ordinary operation of natural causes.
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Examples
- I will go and select one before the choice animals are all taken. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- However, from the many examples of his scientific acumen I select one more.) Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then it will be our duty to select, if we can, natures which are fitted for the task of guarding the city? Plato. The Republic.
- Virginia squatters) added, we select the black members of a litter for raising, as they alone have a good chance of living. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He has been telegraphed to, to know whether he could go, and, if so, which of the several routes he would select. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Helium must select a new Jeddak within the year. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But for them the state did not exist; it existed for the select body of citizens alone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The gentleman in the bag wig laid bundles of papers on his lordship's table, and his lordship silently selected one and turned over the leaves. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The engineering establishment of Mr. Hall, at Dartford, in Kent, was selected as best adapted for the purpose of making the machinery and for carrying the plans into operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- During the night, however, Beauregard fell back to the line which had been already selected, and commenced fortifying it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As is the custom upon Barsoom there were thirty-one, supposedly selected by lot from men of the noble class, for nobles were on trial. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I selected General Weitzel, of the Army of the James, to go with the expedition, but gave instructions through General Butler. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In two's the men would approach each animal selected, avoiding as far as possible its heels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By selecting the best for its exclusive use, it strives to reinforce the power of this best. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Carefully selecting one long tress, she smoothed it down with her hands, and held it out towards her lover. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He sends--I really beg your pardon--he sends, says Sir Leicester, selecting the letter and unfolding it, a message to you. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He is merely selecting the stimuli supplied by the forms of the letters and the motor reactions of oral or written reproduction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In selecting for the title A Preface to Politics, I have wished to stamp upon the whole book my own sense that it is a beginning and not a conclusion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The demand for continuous attention is greater, and more intelligence must be shown in selecting and shaping means. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This does not support my view of his reasons for selecting the day he did for surrendering. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- So the boy pipes, as he selects it from his change, and throws it on the counter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The young man takes the girl his father selects for him, marries her, and after that she is unveiled, and he sees her for the first time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She seems waiting to be sought; but she will not wait too long: she herself selects a mate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- For abstraction deliberately selects from the subject matter of former experiences that which is thought helpful in dealing with the new. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Occasionally she selects slaves from among them to replenish the ranks of her handmaidens. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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