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select
Verb
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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
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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.
dial
Verb
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To dial means to use a telephone to do a call.
I picked up the phone to dial my boss.