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Meaning select meaning

What does select mean?
Definitions in simple English

select Verb

— If you select something, you choose it. Students follow a general course in their first year, and in the final year they select one of three specialist areas of study. It wouldn't be too difficult to make the computer select for vague general features like, say, tall-thinness or short-fatness.

select Adjective

— If something is select it is special in a good way—high quality. His skill and efforts took him into the select group of men who have scored over 50 League goals for our club.

select

— verb (= choose, take, pick out) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives Take any one of these cards Choose a good husband for your daughter She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her — adjective (= choice, prime, prize, quality) of superior grade choice wines prime beef prize carnations quality paper select peaches — adjective (= blue-ribbon) selected or chosen for special qualifications the blue-ribbon event of the season

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select English » English

choose pick pick out elect take choice prefer cull assort appoint vote sort single out pick up excellent chosen picked name designate collect sort out set aside screen prime opt obtain adopt winnow superior special sift separate reserve quality prize pick and choose ordain nominate make a choice love like inspect gather fine extract exquisite excerpt elite divide co-opt

Topics select topics

What do people use select to talk about?
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Choose

Conjugation select conjugation

How do you conjugate select?

select · verb

Examples select examples

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Simple sentences

Please select a language for the Image Viewer interface.
Please select the appropriate option below.
We must select a suitable person for any post.
Select action for Chris.
These are select peaches.
Select the correct answer!

Movie subtitles

Select scenes were reconstructed and resequenced, using the script and synopsis found in 1922 theater programs.
Spare the people from a new tyrant and select a worthy king.
And I shall select the best one, because I understand music.
And he may permit me to select my leading lady.
Suppose we have Johnny come in and help you select something.
And all you citizens here present. please report to my office tomorrow so we can select a jury.
I'm to take your orders and allow you to select my dresses?
Before I select my next wardrobe, my dressmaker will give you samples.
And since there are no more contestants, the judges will now select a winner.
You may proceed to select a jury.
Very select weddings no longer have them but for the ordinary people, we have to show them.
Attention, please. Time to select the winning ticket in the lottery.
But I select who goes with us.
You're not qualified to select those people.
If there are no further objections, select your pistol.
One, select the furs from the warehouse.
Well, I said to myself, now if I had to select pajamas for that gentleman, what would I choose?
Shall we go back now and select just which little birdie?
A spinster aunt is ideal to select presents for young girls.
No doubt, we shall have hundreds of ideas to select from.
My operator will contact London. You will select the message, anything you want.
Well, select wines, exquisite service, unbelievably pleasant company.
For the select society in the pink room.
Gentlemen, select your weapons.
Now, the Mask and Foil Club is ideally select. Besides I love to watch fencing.
Very small, very early and very select.
A select committee was formed, and every facility was afforded us.
Perhaps Mr. Brine could tell us who were his colleagues on this select committee.
I shall select the eggs personally.
I ask you to select three of your number to accompany Colonel Calder to the zoo.
I'll settle for this. have the company commanders select one man from each company in the first wave.
Each of you is to select one man from your company, place him under arrest, and have him appear before a general court-martial no later than 1500 hours this afternoon.
Select the most suitable for colonization.
Tomorrow in the arena, we'll select the others, one by one... those that will cover up the mess.

News and current affairs

Barter payments, -- which stifled the energy market -- were eliminated. So too tax breaks and other privileges that skewed the playing field in favor of a select few.
Supplying less leadership allows the US to weigh opportunity costs before taking action, and to select the issues and circumstances that suit it the best. In this environment, military intervention in Libya does not necessitate the same in Syria.
The Security Council might agree to recommend several candidates from which the General Assembly would select one.
Instead, bureaucrats and politicians prefer a quota system, whereby bureaucrats, not the market, select who immigrates.
Only people that bureaucrats deign to select are fully included, while others who want to come but are not allowed to do so face discrimination.
The escrow account manager then invites the country to select a team, suggesting what skills are required and perhaps even providing a roster of experts.
Contrary to popular prejudice, local governments and public agencies do innovate; what is missing is a mechanism to select and disseminate innovations in the same way the market selects new products or cost-saving processes.
It is possible that intense states of emotion could pre-select and perhaps elicit from the brain certain verbal messages having the same emotional charge.
One objective of the demonstrators was to voice their desire to select Hong Kong's future leaders through universal suffrage.
For thirty years, former President Suharto systematically discriminated against ethnic Chinese, while at the same time favoring a few select Chinese cronies, who helped his family and military colleagues make huge, ill-gotten profits.
We are being asked to trust that these select central banks will do the right thing.
This capital does not finance investments or fuel economic growth; its sole purpose is to reap enormous but unpredictable profits for a select few.
This can be done by making raters' profits depend not on satisfying the issuers that select them, but on performing well for investors.
This means doing more to help the Kurds and select Sunni tribes, as well as continuing to attack the Islamic State from the air.
In Paris, a select group of leaders who are true champions of carbon pricing will issue a call for action.
As a result of these advances in science and supportive care, the same chemotherapeutic drugs could be delivered much more intensively for children with select types and sub-types of cancer.
Are US interests at the World Bank best served by directly nominating an American, or by cooperating with other countries to select the most suitable candidate, American or not?
In an important meeting on September 25, the United Nations General Assembly agreed that the SDGs would be adopted at a global summit in September 2015, with the next two years used to select the priorities.
Facebook and other social tools operate under the covers: Facebook notices which friends you interact with and whose photos you comment on in order to select the items in your NewsFeed or the ads you see.
Such enclaves would require local support from Kurdish forces or select Arab tribes, with military backing by the US and others.
So too tax breaks and other privileges that skewed the playing field in favor of a select few.
He has appointed Anand Panyarachun, a former Thai prime minister who recently headed a United Nations reform panel, to select and direct a blue-ribbon national commission to seek reconciliation with the southern separatists.
For example, genetic testing is being used to pre-select participants for clinical trials, cutting recruitment times.
It bestows access to high-demand currencies on a select few, relatively strong, countries precisely when the weakest countries are at their most vulnerable.

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