select

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /sɪˈlɛkt/

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• Hyphenation: se‧lect

Verb

Plain form select

Third-person singular selects

Past tense selected

Past participle selected

Present participle selecting

1. (transitive & intransitive) 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.

Adjective

Positive select

Comparative more select

Superlative most select

1. 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.

Related words

• selective
• selection