English select definition
Etymology
From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪˈlɛkt/
- Rhymes: -ɛkt
- Hyphenation: se‧lect
Adjective
select (comparative more select, superlative most select)
- Privileged, specially selected.
Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
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- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- Of high quality; top-notch.
This is a select cut of beef.
Translations
privileged, specially selected
of high quality; top-notch
- Bulgarian: висококачествен (bg) (visokokačestven)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 精选 (zh) (jīng xuǎn)
- Indonesian: pilihan (id)
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Verb
select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)
- To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
- He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
- The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
- (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.
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to choose one or more elements from a set
- Arabic: اِخْتَارَ (iḵtāra)
- Egyptian Arabic: اختار (iḵtār)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bashkir: һайлау (haylaw)/һайҙау (hayðaw)
- Basque: aukeratu, hautatu
- Bulgarian: избирам (bg) (izbiram)
- Catalan: seleccionar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 選 (zh), 选 (zh) (xuǎn), 挑選 (zh), 挑选 (zh) (tiāoxuǎn), 選拔 (zh), 选拔 (zh) (xuǎnbá)
- Czech: vybrat (cs)
- Dutch: uitkiezen (nl), selecteer (nl)
- Egyptian: (stp)
- Esperanto: elekti, selekti
- Estonian: valima
- Evenki: синма- (sinma-)
- Finnish: valita (fi)
- French: choisir (fr), sélectionner (fr)
- Galician: escolmar (gl), escoller (gl), seleccionar
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: auswählen (de)
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waljan)
- Greek:
- Ancient: αἱρέομαι (hairéomai), ἐκλέγω (eklégō)
- Haitian Creole: chwazi
- Hebrew: בחר (he) (bakhár)
- Higaonon: namili
- Hungarian: kiválaszt (hu), (creating a member out of someone, in preference to other candidates) beválogat
- Ido: selektar (io)
- Irish: togh
- Italian: scegliere (it), selezionare (it)
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- Japanese: 選ぶ (ja) (えらぶ, erabu)
- Khmer: ជ្រើស (km) (crəəh), រើស (km) (rəəh), ជ្រើសរើស (crəəh rəəh), ចម្រាញ់ (km) (cɑmraɲ)
- Korean: 고르다 (ko) (goreuda)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ھەڵبژاردن (ku) (hellbjardin)
- Northern Kurdish: hilbijartin (ku)
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: legō (la), sēligō, dēligō, optō
- Luxembourgish: auswielen
- Maori: whiri, tīpako (in computing)
- Marathi: निवडणे (mr) (nivaḍṇe)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Nepali: छान्नु (chānnu)
- Old English: ceosan
- Polish: wybierać (pl) impf, wybrać (pl) pf, selekcjonować (pl) impf
- Portuguese: escolher (pt), selecionar (pt), optar por, seletar (pt)
- Quechua: akllay, chihlluy
- Romansch: selecziunar
- Russian: отбира́ть (ru) (otbirátʹ)
- Sanskrit: वृणोति (sa) (vṛṇoti)
- Scottish Gaelic: tagh
- Slovak: vybrať, vyberať, vybrať si, vyberať si
- Somali: xulid
- Spanish: seleccionar (es)
- Swedish: välja (sv), välja ut, utvälja
- Telugu: ఎంచు (te) (eñcu), ఎంచుకొను (te) (eñcukonu)
- Thai: คัดเลือก (th)
- Vietnamese: lựa (vi)
- Volapük: sesukön (vo)
- Welsh: dewis (cy), dethol (cy)
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to obtain a set of data
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 选取 (zh) (xuǎnqǔ)
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- Maori: tīpako
- Slovak: vyselektovať, selektovať
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Anagrams
Romanian select definition
Etymology
From French select.
Adjective
select m or n (feminine singular selectă, masculine plural selecți, feminine and neuter plural selecte)
- select
Declension
Declension of select
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masculine
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neuter
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feminine
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masculine
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neuter
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feminine
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nominative/ accusative
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indefinite
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select
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selectă
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selecți
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selecte
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definite
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selectul
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selecta
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selecții
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selectele
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genitive/ dative
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indefinite
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select
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selecte
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selecți
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selecte
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definite
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selectului
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selectei
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selecților
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selectelor
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