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selection
Noun
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A person makes a selection when a person chooses a smaller number of things from a larger group of things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
engine
Noun
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An engine is the part of a machine which gives it power.
mode
Noun
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A mode is a specific way of doing something.
The study combines two different research modes: oral history and written history.
The machine is in warm-up mode right now.
A modern city offers many different modes of transport from bicycle lanes to high speed trains.
Modern medicine must be seen as part of the capitalist mode of production.
There is a difference in English between casual and formal modes of speech.
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A mode is a fashion or style.
She was always dressed in the latest mode.
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A mode is a specific type or form of something.
Heat is a mode of energy transfer, like work, not a substance or other seawater property.
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A mode is specific a kind scale.
The Mixolydian mode is a good way for inducing a bluesey kind of mood.
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The mode is the number that occurs most often in a group of numbers.
In a normal distribution, with large sets, the mean, median and mode will typically be the same value.
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A mode is specific a kind of clause that shows how the speaker feels about it. Modes show whether something is true, probably true, a wish, etc. Usually called mood.
In Finnish, for example, the conditional mode is used both in the main clause and the subordinate.
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The mode of a rock is the different minerals in it.
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A mode is a specific pattern of wave movement.
Under normal circumstances, there is no coupling between the two modes, which have different propagation constants.