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What does selection mean?

Definitions in simple English

selection Noun

— A person makes a selection when a person chooses a smaller number of things from a larger group of things. — A selection of things is different things that have been chosen or that you can choose from. The window of the store shows a selection of the things you can buy in the store. — Selection is a process where the best adapted life forms survive and the others die out. Charles Darwin was a scientist who wrote about natural selection. — In Australia, a selection was an area of land which a farmer could choose to buy. The first thing he had to do was clear the trees of his selection.

selection

— noun (= choice, pick) the act of choosing or selecting your choice of colors was unfortunate you can take your pick — noun an assortment of things from which a choice can be made the store carried a large selection of shoes — noun (= pick) the person or thing chosen or selected he was my pick for mayor — noun (= excerpt) a passage selected from a larger work he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings — noun (= survival) a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

Synonyms selection synonyms

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choice option pick assortment excerpt election choosing range extract set picking out picking natural selection anthology adoption variety survival of the fittest screening preference excerption alternative voting survival sifting sample picking up dialing cull array abstract weeding out weed out way washout wash out variety screening triage trade-off summary stock sorting selective breeding selective action selective selected extracts select segment secret ballot salmagundi roguing

Topics selection topics

What do people use selection to talk about?

Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Choose

What words refer to the thing that is chosen?

choice selection preference decision
What words refer to the things that could be chosen?

alternative option selection candidate

Social behavior Social activity

Music

What words refer to a piece of music?

piece of music music piece song number selection encore

Examples selection examples

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Simple sentences

My mother prefers the arbitrary selection of the lottery machines over my lucky numbers.

Our random selection has chosen you as a possible winner!

Tom was assessed by the selection committee as fully meeting all criteria for the job.

This species has evolved resistance to the disease as a result of natural selection.

This store has the best selection of hats in town.

Conchita Wurst's selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 sparked controversy in Austria.

I'm confirming my selection.

Movie subtitles

Do wangle out a selection.

Would you favor us with another selection?

Proceed with the selection of the jury.

Too bad there are no women on the selection board.

And he had the most unfortunate habit of. stopping right in the middle of his selection.

Have two or three brought over for my selection.

You go before a selection committee, but that's a pure formality.

Before I make my final selection, however, I want to put you all to a practical test.

Now, then, out of the original group of volunteers, you eight men are the final selection.

Mr. drummond, is the defense ready to proceed with the selection of the next juror?

Let us proceed with the selection of the final juror. Mort.

Would Your Excellencies care to make your selection now?

I want to see a selection of gold wedding rings.

Yeah, he didn't give me no selection.

Butch, you understand your duties in the selection of the skins?

Not even in Paris could monsieur find a wider selection.

Now, our president says we've had enough trouble in Europe as it is, and he wonders if you would be kind enough to look at a selection of straw hats?

Very well, I'll make up a selection.

Hoffner would be the perfect selection.

Just as Mr. Madison has exercised great care in the selection of his coworkers so must I pick my assistants.

My next selection.

Take Don Sebastian out to the bull farm and let him make his own selection.

This gun is an excellent selection, Mr. Holmes.

Yes, sir. I require a mount. Have two or three brought over for my selection.

The usual selection?

You will have to accept our selection.

One could influence the stock market, the selection of Cabinet Ministers.

It seems that the mutates' selection of a leader is straight from the Stone Ages.

And that's only possible through a stringent if somewhat cruel selection.

I've allowed my people to have a little fun in the selection of bizarre tobacco substitutes!

A fine selection.

A simple matter of thought selection.

And since the selection's already been made.

Since you resist the present specimen, you now have a selection.

There's a nice little selection, sir.

Automatic selection.

Doctor, it was my selection as well.

A very quaint idea, Mr. Boma, but I do believe I'm better qualified to make the selection than any random drawing of lots.

News and current affairs

The International Criminal Court, which is now taking shape in The Hague with the selection of its first justices, does not have retroactive jurisdiction.

In particular, they object to the plan's proposal to give increased powers and responsibilities to the Secretary General, whose selection is effectively in the hands of the Security Council's five permanent members, which wield veto power.

The path to a satisfactory resolution is clear: give the General Assembly a greater role in the selection of the Secretary General so that members would be delegating powers to an authority of their own choosing.

Either way, the selection process would benefit from greater transparency.

We might think that evolution leads to the selection of individuals who think only of their own interests, and those of their kin, because genes for such traits would be more likely to spread.

Early biologists and agriculturists carried out selection for desired traits, generating poorly understood changes in the organisms' genetic material.

Once the gene has been transferred to the wild relative, there will be a strong selection pressure to maintain it there if the same herbicide is used, making the weedy wild relatives more difficult to control.

But that bear was following the wisdom natural selection had programmed in its genes: food that is high in proteins and sugars is good for you, and the less energy you expend getting it, the better.

It allows for fine-tuning and self-selection of migration flows, yielding far better results than even the most well-meaning bureaucrats could ever achieve.

Insurers must also be attentive to a wide array of possible moral hazards - perverse incentives to risky behavior - and to problems of selection bias in attracting clients.

What we are seeing now - open campaigning, as opposed to selection behind closed doors - seems to be a move in the right direction.

Then, Trans-Atlantic bickering over the selection of a new IMF Managing Director broke out.

Rather, we are subject to inborn tendencies, which develop through the reciprocally influential forces of natural and sexual selection.

Natural selection is the process by which the variants within a species that are best adapted to survive in their environment win the reproductive contest - at least until an even better-adapted variant comes along.

Instead of looking for changes in genes that take many generations to accumulate until they can be detected, we have measured natural selection directly.

This method can reveal selection in action, working over periods of time as short as one generation - so that it can answer the question of whether modern culture has stopped evolution.

The message of this approach is also clear: natural selection continues to operate in modern cultures.

Nevertheless, it is interesting to see in what direction natural selection is starting to shape us.

We measured natural selection operating on women in Framingham, Massachusetts, where a long-term medical study on heart disease produced the data that we used.

We found significant selection and projected that if it continued for ten generations, the women would evolve to be about two centimeters shorter and have their first child about five months earlier.

Second, we measured the effects of natural selection by noting that women who were shorter and first gave birth when younger had more children.

Even when we focus on a simple physical trait like height, natural selection in humans turns out to be a multifaceted and nuanced process.

Its selection to lead the OSCE is seen as a reward for President Nursultan Nazarbayev's policy of engagement with the West.

But policies of gene selection that may reduce the burden of disease border on the nightmare of eugenic controls.

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