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Definition: Select |
SelectAdjective1. Of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches". 2. Selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-ribbon event of the season". Verb1. Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "select" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Math | A four-part algorithm to select the kth smallest element of an array. Part 1) Consider the array as groups of 5 elements; sort and find the median of each group. 2) Use Select recursively to find x, the median of the medians. 3) Next partition the array around x. 4) Let i be the number of elements in the low side of the partition. If k i, use Select recursively to find the kth element of the low side. Otherwise Select the k-ith element of the high side. (references) |
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| 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 |
SELECT | English | Strategies for European Language-Engineering Enhanced Communication Training | Computing, Language |
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Synonyms: SelectSynonyms: blue-ribbon(a) (adj), choice (adj), prime(a) (adj), prize (adj), quality (adj), choose (v), pick out (v), take (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Choice | Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy. |
Inexpedience | Best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned, unparalleled; (supreme); superlatively; good; bully, crackajack, giltedged; superfine, |
Speciality | Verb: specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize, designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Select |
| English words defined with "select": 11-plus ♦ Adjutant general, assign ♦ Carpenter ant, cast, caucus, center out, choose, clannishness, cliquishness, cull out ♦ Desume, dial, direct primary, draft board, drag, draw ♦ Eclectic physician, elect, election, eleven-plus, empanel, exclusiveness, Eximious ♦ Foot Guards ♦ impanel ♦ number ♦ opt ♦ panel, pick, pick out, prefer, Prelection, Preselect, preview ♦ Select vestry, Selecting, selective, Selectness, selector, selector switch, set apart, single out, specify ♦ take, To choose sides, To make a choice of, To mark out, To pick out. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "select": select kth element. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "select": Sortilege. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Select" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (elected), French (choice, exquisit, select), Romanian (choice, chosen, select). |
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Screenplays | Our job was to select someone who could speak for everybody (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols (Christmas Vacation; writing credit: John Hughes) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Select (2001) | |
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 | Pictured are two researchers on a laboratorry setting. They are looking at slides on a light box. These are slides of cultures of cells that make monoclonal antibodies. These are grown in a lab and the researchers are analyzing the products to select the most promising of them. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | There are 2 shots. In the first, 2 women (1 older, 1 younger) select items in a grocery store aisle. In the second, the older woman chooses between packages of red and green beans in the store. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Preferring woody and weedy species, goats select the young growing points first as they browse downward from the upper parts of a plant. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | [Greek poster- The Choice Is Yours. Select The Lung You Prefer To Live With]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | A Select Committee of Enquiry hard at work. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Sent General Vega and myself to select positions for the artillery. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | World map showing population distribution of Communist Party members by continent and select countries. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The great Kara, the mystery man from India and his $50,000 production of Oriental-splendor supported by a company of select entertainers. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Democratic Republican Party convention, 1967 February 2 at the Changch'ung gymnasium to select the presidential candidate : we have to select party Chairman Mr. Park Chung Hee. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Author Unknown | To select the wrong person for a job is a common mistake; not to remove him/her is a fatal weakness. |
Walter Savage Landor | My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The majority having, as has been shewed, upon men's first uniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally in them, may employ all that power in making laws for the community from time to time, and executing those laws by officers of their own appointing; and then the form of the government is a perfect democracy: or else may put the power of making laws into the hands of a few select men, and their heirs or successors; and then it is an oligarchy: or else into the hands of one man, and then it is a monarchy: if to him and his heirs, it is an hereditary monarchy: if to him only for life, but upon his death the power only of nominating a successor to return to them; an elective monarchy. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Delivery must be effected at such places as the said Governments may select, and must be completed within three months. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The claque at the Opera is very select. |
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Health | Select the button "Search LOCATORplus." (references) | |
For publication date, select "All Years." (references) | ||
For the format option, select "Monograph/Book." (references) | ||
Business | Each district can select its’ own checkpoint time and location. (references) | |
They usually ask for several quotations and select the best offer. (references) | ||
OKIOC plans to select a sole operator for the field this November. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | India | The bill was referred to a select committee of Parliament and has yet to be passed. (references) |
Italy | For example, the Church can select Catholic religion teachers, whose earnings are paid by the State. (references) | |
Honduras | The Education Ministry, in consultation with Christian churches, was to establish procedures to select readings, plan their implementation, and promote their distribution. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | They will not select a low-bidder unknown to them. (references) |
Armenia | The two panelists, in turn, select a third panelist. (references) | |
Korea | However, the applicant has to select either a patent or a utility model. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Guerrillas used wiretaps and accessed bank accounts of citizens at roadblocks to select kidnap victims. (references) |
Panama | Prison authorities asked inmates to select a "spokesperson" to channel their frustrations in a peaceful manner. (references) | |
China | It also announced that it would select candidates for some 7,200 vacancies through a system of national examinations. (references) | |
Minorities | Sri Lanka | In 1996 the Government established a parliamentary select committee to consider a package of constitutional reforms designed to devolve wide-ranging powers to local governments, thereby providing ethnic minorities greater autonomy in governing their local affairs. (references) |
Political Economy | KUWAIT | Foreign investment is welcome in Kuwait for minority partnership in select sectors. (references) |
RUSSIA | In addition, excise taxes are applied to a select group of imports, while Value-Added Tax (VAT) is applied to virtually all imports. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bhutan | The King is to select nominees for cabinet office from among senior government officials holding the rank of secretary or above. (references) |
Swaziland | On September 22, elections were held by secret ballot without major difficulties to select new municipal councils in 11 cities and towns across the country. (references) | |
Burundi | Under the agreement, they will serve for 18 months; the G-7 Hutu parties will then select a president, and the G-10 Tutsi parties will select a vice president. (references) | |
Trade | Guatemala | Products covered are a select group of high-value consumer-ready products. (references) |
Bahrain | For major projects, the concerned ministry extends invitations to select pre-qualified firms. (references) | |
India | Venture capital financing has been very active in select sectors and this is having a substantial impact on mobilization of finances for nascent, high growth sectors such as information technology and biotechnology. (references) | |
Travel | Burma | American Express, Visa, Diners Club and JCB credit cards are accepted at a few select locations. (references) |
Burma | Travelers' checks and credit cards have limited use in Burma and are only accepted at select locations such as the international hotels to pay bills and to obtain FEC. (references) | |
Austria | Whatever type of restaurant or inn you select, be sure to check out the daily specials (Tagesmenu), which typically mean a three-course meal (appetizer/soup, entrée and dessert) for one low price. (references) | |
Women | Malta | Cultural and traditional employment patterns often direct women either into traditional "women's jobs" (such as teachers or nurses) or into better paying jobs in family-owned businesses or select professions (academia or medicine); as a result women generally earn less than their male counterparts. (references) |
Worker Rights | Morocco | Union leadership does not always uphold the rights of members to select their own leaders. (references) |
Switzerland | All workers, including foreigners, have the freedom to associate freely, to join unions of their choice, and to select their own representatives, and workers exercise these rights in practice. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number -- just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice. Following is the revised edition of the Decalogue, calculated for this meridian. Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more. No images nor idols make For Robert Ingersoll to break. Take not God's name in vain; select A time when it will have effect. Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to see the teams play ball. Honor thy parents. That creates For life insurance lower rates. Kill not, abet not those who kill; Thou shalt not pay thy butcher's bill. Kiss not thy neighbor's wife, unless Thine own thy neighbor doth caress Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete Successfully in business. Cheat. Bear not false witness -- that is low -- But "hear 'tis rumored so and so." Cover thou naught that thou hast not By hook or crook, or somehow, got. G.J. |
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Dennis Miller | I want a pneumatic tube in my house with a scanner that will read my mind, select my food and then shotgun a pre-chewed burger and fries bolus directly into my a-hole while a computer simultaneously deducts the cost from my ATM. |
Rush Limbaugh | We wanted to make sure John got his proper sleep, so the ol' Maha Rushie rewarded him with a Select Comfort Bed. |
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Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This year the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy will complete its work and forward its advice and recommendations. |
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| "Select" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 42.53% of the time. "Select" is used about 3,030 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) | 42.53% | 1,289 | 6,127 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 38.11% | 1,155 | 6,655 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.35% | 586 | 10,818 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,030 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Switzerland | Alpine Select AG | United Kingdom | 3I U.K. Select Trust Ltd. |
| USA | Franklin Select Realty Trust | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "select": antenna select unit ♦ bank select ♦ Bayer Select ♦ Bayer Select Ibuprofen ♦ Bayer Select Maximum Strength Backache ♦ bus select ♦ command select ejection system ♦ fast select ♦ select bar ♦ select committee ♦ select finger ♦ select men ♦ select tree ♦ select vestry. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "select": de-select, pre-select, self-select. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
select comfort | 773 | texas select insurance | 42 |
holiday inn select | 540 | select texas | 42 |
select | 348 | select medical | 40 |
select a seat | 281 | sql select | 39 |
calcium coral okinawa select | 201 | lubbock seat select | 38 |
mortgage select | 175 | select staffing | 38 |
select comfort bed | 167 | select a home | 36 |
select comfort mattress | 142 | select inn | 35 |
okinawa select | 117 | select phone | 35 |
select quote | 112 | ama physician select | 35 |
select personnel | 103 | select diamond | 33 |
tae bo select | 80 | select travel | 31 |
hospital select specialty | 60 | personnel select services | 31 |
pro select | 57 | html select | 30 |
dental select | 53 | realty select | 30 |
pro select golf club | 48 | seat select winnipeg | 30 |
select truck | 47 | benefit select | 29 |
select sire | 46 | select blue | 29 |
select a ticket | 45 | properties prudential select | 29 |
category please select | 43 | reader digest select edition | 28 |
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| Language | Translations for "select"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjedh (choose, constitute, cull, disentangle, draft, draught, elect, embrace, opt, pick, pick out, single out, solve, take), përzgjedh. (various references) | |
Arabic | مفضل (chosen, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, preferable, selected), ممتاز (admirable, banner, best, bonny, boss, brave, choice, clipping, cool, dandy, deluxe, distingue, distinguished, ducky, elegant, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, extra, famous, fancy, fine, first class, first rate, first-string, mighty, noble, of first degree, outstanding, premium, prime, splendid, star, stellar, super, superb, superior, swell, thoroughbred, thumbs up, tiptop, top notch, vintage, wizard), منتقى (selected), من الصفوة, مختار (choice, chosen, elected, exquisite, selected), مدقق في الاختيار (choosey), المختار (picked), إنتقى (pick out, single out), إنتخب (cull, elect, pick out, poll, vote, vote in), إختار (choose, cull, discriminate, elect, name, nominate, opt, pack, pick out, plump for, pronounce, single, slate, tag, take, tap), راقي (elegant, pukka, selected, sophisticated). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | висококачествен (choice, extra, oriental), отбран (choice, picked), подбран (assorted, choice, exclusive, handpicked, picked, picked out, selected), подбирам (assail, cull, extract, go for smb., herd, match, pick, pick out, pick over, rail at, round up, winnow), избран (choice, chosen, elect, elected, picked), избирам (choose, cull, elect, make, mark down, name, opt, pick, pick out, put in, return, settle on, single out, sort out), достъпен само за избрани хора. (various references) | |
Chinese | 芼 (vegetables), " (estimate), 选择 (Alternative, Choice, Choose, Choosing, Chosen, option, selected, Selecting, selection), 掄 (whirl), 挑選 (choose), " (promote, pull out, pull up), " (pull out). (various references) | |
Czech | vybrat (choose, clear, cull, look for, scoop, shell out, single out, tell off, withdraw), vybraný (choice, dainty, delicate, elegant, exquisite, grand, parliamentary, refined, selected, sophisticated), volit (ballot, choose, opt, vote), uzavřený (cagey, cagy, closed, incestuous, pent, recluse, retiring, taciturn, unapproachable, withdrawn), exkluzivní (exclusive, fashionable). (various references) | |
Danish | stang (bar, bars and rods, finger, horizontal, horizontal bar, member, pole, rod, select bar, selecting bar, vaulting pole), plustrae (phenotypic elite tree, plus tree, select tree, superior tree), at vaelge en form for understoettelse, hvor mulighed for hoejdeindstilling inddaekker aendringer i lagtykkelse (to select a support whose range of height amply covers variations in seam thickness), anvisningstråd (finger, select finger, selecting finger, selection finger), anvisningsstang (horizontal, horizontal bar, select bar, selecting bar), antennevælger (antenna select unit). (various references) | |
Dutch | aankiezen (dial). (various references) | |
Farsi | ممتازمنتخب , گزیدن (Bite, Choose, Sting), سواکرده , جداکردن (Abrupt, Abstract, Amputate, Analyze, Calve, Chop, Cleave, Cutoff, Detach, Disconnect, Dissociate, Disunite, Divide, Drawoff, Insulate, Intercept, Part, Partition, Rive, Rupture, Separate, Sequester, Sever, Try, Uncouple, Unlink, Untwist, Unzip), انتخاب کردن (Chap, Choose, Elect, Single), برگزیده (Choice, Chosen, Favorite, Picked, Selective). (various references) | |
Finnish | valita (choose, elect, pick, pick out), valikoida (choose, pick out). (various references) | |
French | SELECT. (various references) | |
German | wählen (adopt, be decided, choose, chosen, dial, elect, hold a ballot, make one's choice, opt, pick, pick out, polling, return, take, take a ballot, to ballot (for), to choose, to select, vote, vote in, voting), auswählen (choose, chosen, elect, pick, pick out, selects, single out, to select), auswahl (anthology, assortment, choice, choosing, cull, eligibility, miscellany, pick, range, representative team, sample, selected, selection, variety), aussuchen (choose, pick, pick on, pick out, sort out, to choose, to pick out), ausgesucht (choice, exceptional, ideal, picky, studied, well chosen), auserlesen (choice, exquisite, to select). (various references) | |
Greek | διαλέγω (choose, elect, garble, go for, pick, pick out, single somebody out, sort). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לבחור (choose, opt, pick), לברר (clarify). (various references) | |
Hungarian | válogatott (assorted, choice, elect, hand picked, picked, selected), választ (choose, chose, chosen, elect, opt, pick out, to chair, to choose, to cull, to elect, to embrace, to opt). (various references) | |
Italian | selezionare (choose, cull, pick out, pick over, screen, sort). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 選ぶ (choose, optone's, prefer), 特' (special), セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, Scotch tape, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, stopper, with a self-starter). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | セレクト , とくせ" (choice, special, specially selected, urging soldiers to fight more vigorously). (various references) | |
Korean | 가 내" (Panned). (various references) | |
Manx | teiyrt, teiy (ballot, balloting, choice, choose, cream, cream best, cull, discrimination, division; tomahawk, gather, highlight; selection, pick, pick over, poll; prime, vote), teiht (elected, elite), teih (elect, single out), reiht (chosen, designated, elect, elected, elite, selected). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | electsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | superior (above, ascendant, atop, better, bettor, chief, choice, classy, crack-a-jack, gentle, high, master, olympian, over, pre-eminent, premium, supreme, towering, transcendent, upper), seleto, selecionar (choose, cull, draft, draught, grade, mark, pick, pick out, pick up, single, sort, take), selecionado (choice, picked, selected), restrito (classified, confined, limited, narrow, qualified, restricted, short), pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), pôr parte (make away, ostracize, outgrow, segregate, set apart, set aside, single), fino (braw, choice, dainty, delicate, dressy, exquisite, fine, gallant, gaunt, genteel, gentlemanly, gossamer, keen, knowing, lean, nice, nobby, out-and-out, posh, refined, sharp, sheer, sleazy, slender, slim, smart, stylish, subtil, subtile, subtle, tactful, tasteful, tenuous, thin, well-bred, well-made, wispy), exigente (critical, demanding, exacting, exigent, nice, picky, rigorous), exclusivo (alone, cliquish, exclusive, expulsive, sole), escolher (adopt, choose, cull, elect, like, list, opt, pick, pick out, run up, single, sort, sort out, take, to choose), desbastar (build, build from wood, chip, detruncate, hew, hew down, lop, pare, single, spall, thin out, trim, whittle), de superior qualidade, apartar (divide, part, seclude, segregate, separate, single, sort, wean). (various references) | |
Romanian | sorta (assort, pick over, sort), selecta (choose, cull, garble, pick), select (choice, chosen), selecţionat (picked), selecţiona (choose, seed, sort, sort out), tria (sort, winnow), fin (beautiful, choice, delicate, delicately, discriminating, excellent, fine, fine-drawn, finely, fine-spun, godchild, godson, gossamer, graceful, keen, nice, penetrating, quick, refined, sharp, shrewd, slender, soft, spidery, subtile, subtly, tenuous), face o selecţie, despãrţi (abstract, bar, cleave, detach, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, partition, scatter, segregate, separate, sever, unyoke), de elitã (crack), ales (admirable, beau, choice, chosen, clear, dainty, delicate, distinct, distinguished, elect, elective, excellent, exquisite, first rate, grand, high, lofty, picked, rare, remarkable, splendid, supreme), alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, glean, Peel, pick, pick on, pick out, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow). (various references) | |
Russian | сортировать (assort, collate, grade, separate, sort, sorted), выбирать выбор (picking, selecting), выбирать (bouse, bows, choose, chose, chosen, elect, fetch, opt, pick, pick out, round in, selects, single out, take), отбирать (adeem, adeemed, choose, cull, handpick, pick, single out, sort out, staple, tell off, weed away, weed out), подыскать (find). (various references) | |
Scottish | tagh (choose, elect), roghnaich. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odabrati (cull, pick, pick out, tell off), odabran (choice, chosen, recherche, selected), izabrati (choose, chose, elect, number among, opt, pick, pick out), izabran (chosen, elected, picked, selected). (various references) | |
Spanish | seleccionar (choose, pick, sift out), escoger (choose, cull, elect, Favor, favour, go for, look out, mark down, mark out, opt, pick, pick out). (various references) | |
Swedish | utvälja (choose). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งไ"้รับการคั"เลือก, คั"เลือก (elect), "ีเลิศ (ideal, royal, superb). (various references) | |
Turkish | seçmesini bilen, seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, pick out, plump for, postulate, single out, spot), seçmece (at choice, on appro, on approval), seçme (choice, choosing, co-optation, digest, eclectic, pick, picked, recherche, sampling, selection, spotting), seçkin (choice, distinguished, eminent, excellent, exclusive, outstanding, picked, pre-eminencent, privileged, prominent, selected, topflight, top-hole, top-line, well chosen), seçilmiş (chosen, elective, picked, recherche, selected), zevkli (decorous, delightful, easy, enjoyable, fun, gracious, pleasurable, tasteful, tasty, zestful), kalburüstü (choice, choicest), iyi anlayan, güzide (choice, distinguished), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow), ayıklamak (clean out, comb out, grub up, pick, pick over, pluck, sort, sort out, weed out, weed up, winnow). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | селекціонувати, вибирати (adopt, choose, elect, opt, pick, pick on, single out), обраний (elect), перебірливий (choosy), доступний небагатьом. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | khó tính (cantankerous, difficile, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, miminy-piminy, nicely, perverse, unaccommodating), được lựa chọn. (various references) | |
Welsh | dewis (choice, choose), dethol (choose, pick). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adoptaverat, adoptavit, adopto, cumelecta, depascatur, depasci, depasti, depastus, dilecta, dilectae, dilectam, dilecte, dilecti, dilectis, dilecto, dilectos, dilectum, dilectus, dilexerat, dilexerimus, dilexeris, dilexerit, dilexerunt, dilexi, dilexisset, dilexisti, dilexit, diligam, diligamus, diligant, diligas, diligat, diligatis, diligatur, dilige, diligebam, diligebant, diligebat, diligens, diligentes, diligenti, diligentia, diligentibus, diligentis, diligentium, diligere, diligerent, diligeret, diligeretis, diliges, diliget, diligetis, diligetur, diligimus, diligis, diligit, diligite, diligitis, diligo, diligunt, electa, electae, electam, electas, electi, electis, electo, electorum, electos, electum, electus, eligo, eximia, lego, optabam, optabant, optat, optata, optatis, optaverat, optavi, opto, perpauca, perpaucis, quaesita, quaesitum, sum, sumam, sumamus, sumas, sumat, sume, sumebant, sumenda, sumendi, sumens, sument, sumentes, sumere, sumerem, sumeret, sumes, sumesque, sumet, sumetis, sumetisque, sumetque, sumetur, sumit, sumite, sumpserim, sumpserint, sumpsero, sumpserunt, sumpsimus, sumpsisset, sumpsisti, sumpsit, sumpsitque, sumpta, sumptis, sumptu, sumptum, sumptumque, sumptus, sumunt. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | kan. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | coillir. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Joshua Chapter 18, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Dote ex umwn treiV andraV ek fulhV kai anastanteV dielqetwsan thn ghn kai diagrayatwsan authn enantion mou kaqa dehsei dielein authn kai hlqosan proV auton |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Eligite de singulis tribubus ternos viros ut mittam eos et pergant atque circumeant terram et describant eam iuxta numerum uniuscuiusque multitudinis referantque ad me quod descripserint |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Chesith of eche lynagis thre men, that Y sende hem, and thei goon, and enuyroun the loond, and discryue it after the noumbre of eche multitude, and thei tellen to me, that thei han discryued. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Select from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them, and they shall come again to me. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Joshua Chapter 18, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Magtudlo kamo alang kaninyo ug totolo ka tawo sa tagsa ka banay; ug akong sugoon sila, ug sila manindog ug manuroy sa kayutaan, ug mosaysay kanila sumala sa ilang panulondon: Ug sila moari kanako. |
| Chinese | 們 每 " 派 當 選 舉 三 個 人 、 我 要 " 發 他 們 去 、 他 們 就 要 起 身 走 遍 那 地 、 按 著 各 " 派 應 得 的 地 業 寫 明 ． " 或 作 畫 圖 〕 就 回 到 我 這 裡 來 。 |
| Croatian | Izaberite po tri èovjeka iz svakoga plemena, a ja æu ih poslati da popišu svu zemlju za diobu. Kad se vrate k meni, |
| Danish | Udse eder tre Mænd af hver Stamme, som jeg kan udsende; de skal gøre sig rede og drage Landet rundt og affatte en Beskrivelse derover til Brug ved Fastsættelsen af deres Arvelod og så komme tilbage til mig. |
| Dutch | Geeft voor ulieden drie mannen van elken stam, dat ik ze heenzende, en zij zich opmaken, en het land doorwandelen, en beschrijven hetzelve naar hun erven, en weder tot mij komen. |
| Finnish | Tuokaa tänne jokaisesta sukukunnasta kolme miestä, niin minä lähetän heidät menemään ja kiertelemään maata ja panemaan sen kirjaan heidän perintöosiaan silmällä pitäen; ja tulkoot he sitten takaisin minun luokseni. |
| French | Choisissez trois hommes par tribu, et je les ferai partir. Ils se lèveront, parcourront le pays, traceront un plan en vue du partage, et reviendront auprès de moi. |
| German | Schafft euch aus jeglichem Stamm drei Männer, daß ich sie sende und sie sich aufmachen und durchs Land gehen und es aufschreiben nach ihren Erbteilen und zu mir kommen. |
| Hungarian | Hozzatok elõ három-három férfiút nemzetségenként, és elküldöm õket, hogy keljenek fel és járják el a földet, és írják fel azt az õ örökségük szerint, és térjenek vissza hozzám; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pilihlah tiga orang dari setiap suku. Saya akan menyuruh mereka meninjau seluruh negeri ini untuk mencatat batas-batas daerah yang mereka ingin miliki. Sesudah itu, mereka harus kembali kepada saya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Berikanlah kiranya bagi dirimu tiga orang dari pada tiap-tiap suku, maka aku hendak menyuruhkan mereka itu pergi berjalan sana sini di tanah itu sambil menulis petanya, sekadar bahagian pusaka masing-masing, lalu mereka itu akan kembali kepadaku, |
| Maori | Whakaritea mo koutou kia tokotoru mo ia iwi: a maku ratou e tono, a ka whakatika ratou, ka haere i te whenua, a ka tuhituhi kia rite ki o ratou wahi; a ka haere mai ai ratou ki ahau. |
| Norwegian | Kom nu med tre menn for hver stamme! Så vil jeg sende dem ut, og de skal gjøre sig rede og gå igjennem landet og skrive op det de ser, for utskiftningens skyld, og så komme tilbake til mig. |
| Rumanian | Alegeyi trei bqrbayi de fiecare seminyie, wi -i voi porni. Sq se scoale, sq strqbatq yara, sq facq un plan kn vederea kmpqryelii, wi sq se kntoarcq la mine. |
| Russian | "БКФЕ ПФ УЕ'С П ФТЙ ЮЕМПЧЕЛБ ЙЪ ЛПМЕОБ; С ПЫМА ЙИ, Й ПОЙ ЧУФБЧ ТПК"ХФ П ЪЕНМЕ Й П ЙЫХФ ЕЕ, ЛБЛ ОБ"П'ОП ТБЪ"ЕМЙФШ ЙН ОБ Х"ЕМЩ, Й ТЙ"ХФ ЛП НОЕ; |
| Swedish | Utsen åt eder tre män för var stam, så skall jag sända dem åstad, för att de må stå upp och draga omkring i landet och sätta upp en beskrivning däröver, efter som vars och ens arvedel skall bliva, och så komma tillbaka till mig. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "select": selectable, selected, selectee, selectees, selecting, selection, selectionist, selectionists, selections, selective, selectively, selectiveness, selectivenesses, selectivities, selectivity, selectly, selectman, selectmen, selectness, selectnesses, selector, selectors, selects. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "select": deselect, preselect. (additional references) | |
Words containing "select": deselected, deselecting, deselects, nonselected, nonselective, preselected, preselecting, preselection, preselections, preselects, unselected, unselective, unselectively. (additional references) | |
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"Select" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delect, eslet, Saleck, Salekh, saylac, seclet, Selec, Selket, Selnec, Senecto, Sepecat, Shelest, Silec, Silicott, sleece, sleech, solest, solict, sollect. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "select" (pronounced sule"kt) |
| 5 | -u l e" k t | collect, elect, recollect, reelect. |
| 4 | -l e" k t | deflect, inflect, neglect, reflect. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, confect, connect, correct, decked, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, eject, erect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, necked, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, reconnect, redirect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, subject, suspect, trekked, unchecked, wecht, wrecked. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: elects. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-l-s-t" | |
-1 letter: celts, cetes, elect, leets, sleet, steel, stele, teels, teles. | |
-2 letters: cees, cels, celt, cete, eels, else, lees, leet, lest, lets, sect, seel, teel, tees, tele, tels. | |
-3 letters: cee, cel, eel, els, lee, let, sec, see, sel, set, tee, tel. | |
-4 letters: el, es, et. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-l-s-t" | |
+1 letter: celesta | |
