Dictionary Definition
select adj
1 of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime
beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn:
choice, prime(a), prize, quality]
2 selected or chosen for special qualifications;
"the blue-ribbon event of the season" [syn: blue-ribbon(a)]
v : pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives;
"Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your
daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the
salesgirl had shown her" [syn: choose, take, pick out]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛkt
Adjective
- Privileged,
specially selected.
- Only a select few were allowed to the premiere.
- Of high quality; top-notch.
- This is a select cut of beef.
Verb
Related terms
Translations
to choose one or more elements from a set
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 選, 选 (xuǎn)
- Dutch: uitkiezen
- Finnish: valita
- French: choisir, sélectionner
- German: auswählen
- Hebrew: בחר
- Hungarian: kiválaszta
- Italian: scegliere
- Japanese: 選ぶ (えらぶ, erabu)
- Korean: 고르다 (goreuda)
- Kurdish:
- Portuguese: selecionar
- Russian: отбирать (otbirát’)
- Spanish: seleccionar
- Swedish: utvälja
- Telugu: ఎంచు (eMcu), ఎంచుకొను (eMcukonu)
Extensive Definition
Select may refer to:
- Select (SQL), a keyword in SQL
- , an HTML element
- Select (magazine), a British music magazine
- MTV Select, a television program
- Cable select, a setting on ATA devices that allows position on the cable to determine the role of a drive
- quick select, an algorithm to select the kth-smallest element of an array
- Select Live, New Zealand's C4 music program
- Shell Select, a chain of convenience stores
- select (Unix), a system call (in sys/select.h or unistd.h) for polling multiple file descriptors
- Select Citywalk, a shopping mall in Delhi, India
- SELECT Sport A/S, a Danish sports equipment manufacturer
See also
select in Portuguese: Select
select in Slovak: Select
select in Vietnamese: Select
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accepted, adopted, advert to, allude to,
analyze, appoint, appointed, approved, assign, be taken as, best, better, carried, champion, choice, choose, choose out, chosen, clannish, cliquish, closed, contradistinguish,
cream, cull, dainty, decide between, delicate, demarcate, demark, denominate, denote, designate, designated, determine, differentiate, discriminate, discriminating, distinguish, divide, draw the line, elect, elected, elected by acclamation,
elegant, elite, emblematize, embraced, espoused, ethnocentric, excellent, exceptional, excerpt, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exquisite, extract, fat, favored, favorite, figure, fine, finest, finger, first-class, first-rate,
fix, flower, for the best, glean, greatest, handpick, handpicked, inadmissible, indicate, insular, limited, make a selection,
mark, mark the interface,
matchless, mention, name, named, narrow, nominate, nominated, nonesuch, nonpareil, opt for, optimal, optimum, ordain, ordinate, paragon, paramount, parochial, passed, peerless, pick, pick out, picked, pin down, point at, point
out, point to, preclusive, prefer, preferable, preferred, prescriptive, preventive, prime, privileged, prize, prohibitive, queen, quintessence, quintessential, rare, ratified, recherche, refer to, restricted, restrictive, screen, screen out, screened, seclusive, segregate, segregative, selected, selective, separate, separative, set, set a limit, set apart, set
off, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, signify, single out, snobbish, snobby, sort, sort out, special, specialize, specify, split hairs, stand for,
state, stigmatize, stipulate, subdivide, subtilize, superior, superlative, supreme, surpassing, symbol, symbolize, tab, take, the best, the best ever, the
tops, the very best, top,
typify, unanimously
elected, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed, very best,
winnow, xenophobic