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SELECT

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Selected or chosen for special qualifications

Example:

the blue-ribbon event of the season

Synonyms:

blue-ribbon; select

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of superior grade

Example:

select peaches

Synonyms:

choice; prime; prize; quality; select

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives

Example:

She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her

Synonyms:

choose; pick out; select; take

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "select" is one way to...):

decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "select"):

vote (express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote)

nominate; propose (put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position)

elect (select by a vote for an office or membership)

vote in (elect in a voting process)

screen; screen out; sieve; sort (examine in order to test suitability)

adopt; espouse; follow (choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans)

define; determine; fix; limit; set; specify (decide upon or fix definitely)

think of (choose in one's mind)

single out (select from a group)

assign; set apart; specify (select something or someone for a specific purpose)

pick over; sieve out (separate or remove)

cream off; skim off (pick the best)

cull out; winnow (select desirable parts from a group or list)

excerpt; extract; take out (take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy)

elect (choose)

pick (select carefully from a group)

go; plump (give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number)

dial (choose by means of a dial)

draw (select or take in from a given group or region)

sieve; sift (distinguish and separate out)

field (select (a team or individual player) for a game)

anoint (choose by or as if by divine intervention)

empanel; impanel; panel (select from a list)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They select him to write the letter

Derivation:

selection (the act of choosing or selecting)

selective (tending to select; characterized by careful choice)

selective (characterized by very careful or fastidious selection)

selector (a person who chooses or selects out)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The gene panel was selected and the Recurrence Score calculation was derived through extensive laboratory testing and multiple independent clinical development studies.

(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Thesaurus)

But a study suggests that using the glycemic index to select foods may not improve insulin sensitivity, lower HDL or LDL lipid levels or reduce blood pressure levels.

(Low-glycemic diets may not improve cardiovascular outcomes when compared to high-glycemic diets, NIH)

Select suitable vaccine candidates and support efficacy trials when appropriate criteria are met.

(Phase III Large Scale Vaccine Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

“The party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other. I hope we may often meet again.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The MOF that Teplensky and team selected breaks down into harmless components that are easily recycled by the cell without harmful side effects.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

Select candidate vaccines or concepts suitable for Phase I and Phase II trials and conduct these trials.

(Phase I and II Vaccine Trials, NCI Thesaurus)

You will ask me why I selected Friar’s Oak.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meantime, Mr. Rochester had again summoned the ladies round him, and was selecting certain of their number to be of his party.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He trusted, however, that an opportunity might ere long occur of selecting one—though not for himself.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)