Definition of select

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Select (v. t.) To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal..

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Fortition :: Fortition (n.) Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
Choice :: Choice (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Outlook :: Outlook (v. t.) To inspect throughly; to select.
Sortition :: Sortition (n.) Selection or appointment by lot.
Psychogenesis :: Psychogenesis (n.) Genesis through an internal force, as opposed to natural selection..
Option :: Option (n.) A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845..
Elect :: Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor..
Conventional :: Conventional (a.) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t..
Selector :: Selector (n.) One who selects.
Cooptation :: Cooptation (n.) The act of choosing; selection; choice.
Draught :: Draught (n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2).
Eleven :: Eleven (n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven..
Anyone :: Anyone (n.) One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words..
Elite :: Elite (n.) A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society..
Townsman :: Townsman (n.) A selectman, in New England. See Selectman..
Cull :: Cull (v. t.) To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers..
Choice :: Choice (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination..
Preselect :: Preselect (v. t.) To select beforehand.
Selectmen :: Selectmen (pl. ) of Selectma.
Selectman :: Selectman (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town..
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