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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Culler :: Culler (n.) One who picks or chooses; esp., an inspector who selects wares suitable for market..
Anthology :: Anthology (n.) A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.
Selectmen :: Selectmen (pl. ) of Selectma.
Eligible :: Eligible (a.) Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house..
Choose :: Choose (v. i.) To make a selection; to decide.
Draff :: Draff (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted..
Moon-culminating :: Moon-culminating (a.) Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude..
Excerptive :: Excerptive (a.) That excerpts, selects, or chooses..
Single :: Single (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate..
Choice :: Choice (n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
Select :: 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..
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..
Decimation :: Decimation (n.) A selection of every tenth person by lot, as for punishment..
Party :: Party (v.) A number of persons invited to a social entertainment; a select company; as, a dinner party; also, the entertainment itself; as, to give a party..
Casket :: Casket (n.) A book of selections.
Collectanea :: Collectanea (v. t.) Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology..
Choose :: Choose (v. t.) To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils..
Mute :: Mute (n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak..
Registration :: Registration (v.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ.
Choice :: Choice (superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen..
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