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[ verb ] pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
Examples "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" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Under Formby 's plan , an appointee would be selected by a board composed of the governor , lieutenant_governor , speaker of the House , attorney_general and chief_justice of the Texas_Supreme_Court . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)Volumes One and Two , selected from the sound_tracks of a television series , contain `` conversations with the elder wise_men of our day '' . (Mr. America, 4:6...)This comes not alone from high-set , high-rep training , but from certain definition specialization exercises which the champion selects for himself with the knowledge of exactly what works best for him . (Organic Gardening and Farming,...)Dr._Wilson_C._Grant , of the Veterans_'_Administration_Hospital , Coral_Gables , Florida , and the University_of_Miami_School_of_Medicine , set_out to discover if avocados , because of their high content of unsaturated fatty_acids , would reduce the cholesterol of the blood in selected patients . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)In method as_well_as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '' , anticipates a kind of musical_composition , as_well as a kind of fictional composition , in which , as Leverku^hn says , `` there shall be nothing unthematic '' . |
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[ adjective ] of superior grade
Examples "choice wines" "prime beef" "prize carnations" "quality paper" "select peaches" Used in print (Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)You 've already sent your daughter to Miss_X 's select academy for girls and your son to Mr._Y 's select academy for boys , and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity . You 've already sent your daughter to Miss_X 's select academy for girls and your son to Mr._Y 's select academy for boys , and you can be as liberal as you please with strict impunity . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] selected or chosen for special qualifications
Synonyms Examples "the blue-ribbon event of the season" Related terms |
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