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Definitions: Elective |
ElectiveAdjective1. Subject to popular election; "elective official". 2. Not compulsory; "elective surgery"; "an elective course of study". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "elective" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Subject to the choice or decision of the patient or physician; applied to procedures that are advantageous to the patient but not urgent. (references) |
Language | That may be elected: permitting a choice. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| ELND | English | Elective lymph node dissection | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: ElectiveSynonym: elected (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: appointive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Government | Election, poll, ballot, vote, referendum, recall, initiative, voice, suffrage, plumper, cumulative vote, plebiscitum, plebiscite, vox populi; electioneering; voting; Verb: elective franchise; straight ticket; opinion poll, popularity poll. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Elective |
| English words defined with "elective": campaign ♦ Elective affinity, Elective franchise, Electively ♦ political campaign. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "elective": dual mandate ♦ Microsoft Certified Solution Developer ♦ plurality of offices ♦ Surgical Procedures, Elective. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Walter F. Mondale | In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Thus the natural fathers of families, by an insensible change, became the politic monarchs of them too: and as they chanced to live long, and leave able and worthy heirs, for several successions, or otherwise; so they laid the foundations of hereditary, or elective kingdoms, under several constitutions and mannors, according as chance, contrivance, or occasions happened to mould them. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Therefore, it is prudent to avoid botulinum toxin therapy for elective procedures in women of childbearing age until absence of pregnancy or adequate contraception is assured. (references) | |
The rate of common bile duct exploration for choledocholithiasis varies from 3 percent in series of patients having elective operation to 21 percent in series that included all patients. (references) | ||
Objective analysis could be carried out in patients with HPT before and after surgery and in carefully matched controls undergoing other elective surgical procedures such as thyroidectomy. (references) | ||
Business | In the past, private hospitals carried out less complex non-emergency elective surgery but are now providing cutting-edge, high-technology services to patients. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yugoslavia | However, the vast majority of students have opted either to enroll in the secular course or not to sign up for either elective. (references) |
Yugoslavia | Under a November 2000 government decree, religious instruction was introduced as an elective subject in primary and secondary schools during the 2001-02 school year. (references) | |
Pakistan | During the year, few non-Muslims were active in the country's mainstream political parties because of limitations on their ability to run for elective office under the separate electorates system. (references) | |
Discrimination | Belgium | With Dutch, French, and German as official languages, the country has a complex linguistic regime, including language requirements for various elective and appointive positions. (references) |
Economic History | Swaziland | The INM won all 24 elective seats. (references) |
Japan | There is universal adult suffrage with a secret ballot for all elective offices. (references) | |
Minorities | Yemen | Non-Muslims may vote, but they are prohibited from holding elective office. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | The study of Christianity is available on an elective basis in some schools. (references) |
Maldives | Candidates for elective office run as independents on the basis of personal qualifications. (references) | |
Political Rights | Paraguay | The new Electoral Code requires that 20 percent of each party's candidates in their internal primaries for elective office be women. (references) |
Panama | The law prohibits discrimination against any social, religious, or cultural group; however, naturalized citizens may not hold certain categories of elective office. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | There are no legal restrictions on women's participation in politics; however, traditional social norms limit women's roles in politics, and they are underrepresented in elective offices. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The whole system is elective, the complete sovereignty being in the people, and every officer in every department deriving his authority from and being responsible to them for his conduct. |
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| "Elective" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.79% of the time. "Elective" is used about 261 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.79% | 250 | 18,796 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.21% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 261 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "elective": Elective affinity ♦ elective assembly ♦ Elective attraction ♦ Elective franchise ♦ elective office ♦ elective process ♦ elective surgery ♦ elective system. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "elective": non-elective. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
elective mutism | 12 |
elective surgery | 9 |
course elective | 6 |
elective surgery financing | 6 |
class elective | 5 |
elective | 4 |
elective medical senior student | 4 |
elective abortion | 3 |
elective loan surgery | 3 |
elective induction labor | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "elective"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që ka të drejta elektorale, jo i detyrueshëm (optional), i zgjedhur (choosy, chosen, elect, elected, picked, recherche, refined, selected), fakultativ (facultative, optional, voluntary). (various references) | |
Arabic | إنتخابي (electoral), إختياري (facultative, optional, permissive, volitional), درس إختياري. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | факултативен (facultative), с право да избира, изборен (election, optional), избирателен (election, electoral). (various references) | |
Chinese | 选举 (Elect, Elected, Electing, electoral). (various references) | |
Czech | volební (electoral). (various references) | |
Danish | elektiv, selektiv (selective). (various references) | |
Dutch | electief. (various references) | |
Farsi | گزینشی (Selective), انتخابی (Selective). (various references) | |
Finnish | elektiivinen, ei-päivystyksellinen, valittavissa oleva, valinnaisaikainen, valinnainen (optional), valikoiva (selective). (various references) | |
French | électif. (various references) | |
German | elektiv, wahl- (electoral, optional). (various references) | |
Greek | εκλεκτικόσ (choosey, dainty, eclectic, selective), εκλεκτικός (eclectic, selective), εκλογικόσ, αιρετόσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | של בחיר". (various references) | |
Hungarian | választásra jogosult, választási (canvassing, electioneering, electoral). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pilihan (alternative, choice, dibs, dilemma, option, preference, selection). (various references) | |
Italian | elettivo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 被選挙人 (person eligible for elective office), 選科 (elective course or subject). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひせ"きょに" (person eligible for elective office), せ"か (elective course or subject, fruit of battle, Hades, military gains, ravages of war, selected poems, selection of poems, sorting fruit, specialized course, the hereafter, war, war damages, war results). (various references) | |
Korean | 임 (Electing, seniority). (various references) | |
Manx | reihagh (choosey, optative). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | electiveay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | electivo, galopinar. (various references) | |
Romanian | electoral (electoral), electiv, numit prin alegeri, ales (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, select, splendid, supreme). (various references) | |
Russian | выборный (electoral), имеющий право выбирать, избирательный (constituent, election, electoral, selectable, selective). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neobavezan kurs, neobavezan (dispensable, facultative, optional, unbound, unbounded), izborni (constituent, election, electoral), fakultativan kurs, birački. (various references) | |
Spanish | electivo (election, joyce, vote). (various references) | |
Swedish | valfri (facultative, optional), vald (chosen, elect, elected, selected), val- (cetacean, cetaceous, constituent, electoral, polling), tillvals-, tillsatt genom val, med rätt att välja. (various references) | |
Thai | โ"ยสมัครใจ, โ"ยการเลือกตั้ง, วิชาเลือก. (various references) | |
Turkish | seçmeli ders (facultative subject, optional subject), seçmeli (facultative, optional, permissive, selective), seçimle ilgili, seçim (choice, election, poll, polling, selection), seçilmiş (chosen, picked, recherche, select, selected). (various references) | |
Ukranian | факультативний (facultative, optional), виборчий (electoral), виборний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | môn không thể bắt buộc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "elective": electively, electiveness, electivenesses, electives. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "elective": nonelective, nonselective, selective, unselective. (additional references) | |
Words containing "elective": nonelectives, selectively, selectiveness, selectivenesses, unselectively. (additional references) | |
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"Elective" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celestite, eclective, electee, Electribe, elucive, exective. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "elective" (pronounced ule"ktiv) |
| 7 | u l e" k t i v | collective, selective. |
| 6 | -l e" k t i v | reflective. |
| 5 | -e" k t i v | affective, connective, corrective, defective, detective, directive, effective, ineffective, infective, introspective, invective, irrespective, objective, perspective, projective, prospective, protective, respective, retrospective, subjective. |
| 4 | -k t i v | active, addictive, adjective, attractive, conductive, constructive, counterproductive, destructive, distinctive, hyperactive, inactive, injunctive, instinctive, instructive, interactive, nonproductive, obstructive, octave, overactive, photoconductive, predictive, proactive, productive, radioactive, reactive, reconstructive, refractive, reproductive, restrictive, retroactive, seductive, superconductive, unattractive, unproductive, vindictive. |
| 3 | -t i v | abortive, accommodative, accumulative, accusative, acquisitive, adaptive, additive, administrative, adoptive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, appointive, appreciative, argumentative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, authoritative, automotive, captive, causative, cognitive, collaborative, combative, commemorative, communicative, comparative, competitive, congestive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, contraceptive, cooperative, corruptive, creative, cumulative, curative, deceptive, decorative, definitive, degenerative, deliberative, demonstrative, derivative, descriptive, digestive, dilutive, diminutive, disincentive, disparages, dispositive, disruptive, dissipative, distributive, duplicative, elucidative, eruptive, evocative, executive, exhaustive, expletive, exploitative, exploitive, facultative, Federative, festive, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, furtive, generative, hypersensitive, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, imperative, inattentive, incentive, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, innovative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, interpretive, intuitive, inventive, investigative, iterative, laxative, legislative, locomotive, lucrative, manipulative, meditative, motive, narrative, native, negative, neoconservative, nonautomotive, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, nonnative, normative, nutritive, operative, palliative, participative, pejorative, perceptive, plaintive, positive, preemptive, prerogative, preservative, presumptive, preventative, preventive, primitive, probative, prognosticative, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, qualitative, quantitative, receptive, recuperative, redemptive, redistributive, regulative, rehabilitative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, restive, restorative, secretive, sedative, sensitive, speculative, stimulative, substantive, suggestive, superlative, supportive, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unreceptive, unrepresentative, vegetative, vituperative. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cleveite. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-t-v" | |
-1 letter: evictee. | |
-3 letters: civet, elect, elite, evict, evite, levee, lieve, telic. | |
-4 letters: ceil, celt, cete, cite, clit, etic, evil, leet, lice, lite, live, teel, tele, tile, veil, vice, vile. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, eel, eve, ice, lee, lei, let, lev, lie, lit, tee, tel, tic, tie, til, vee, vet, vie. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-l-t-v" | |
+1 letter: cleveites, electives, selective. | |
+2 letters: deflective, electively, reflective. | |
+3 letters: deceptively, defectively, effectively, nonelective, receptively, secretively, selectively, unselective, velocimeter. | |
+4 letters: accelerative, cantilevered, electiveness, intellective, nonelectives, nonselective, perceptively, perfectively, reflectively, respectively, unreflective, velocimeters. | |
+5 letters: coextensively, detectivelike, ineffectively, perspectively, selectiveness, selectivities, unselectively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6C 65 63 74 69 76 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. . -.-. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101100 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E l e c t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006C 0065 0063 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3978716986758871 |
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