select

See also: Select and sélect

English

Etymology

From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈlɛkt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛkt
• Hyphenation: se‧lect

Adjective

select (comparative more select, superlative most select)

1. Privileged, specially selected.

   Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

2. Of high quality; top-notch.

   This is a select cut of beef.

Translations

privileged, specially selected

• Bulgarian: избран (bg) (izbran), подбран (bg) (podbran)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 特定 (zh) (tèdìng)

• Dutch: select (nl)
• French: sélect (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἐκλεκτός (eklektós)

• Hungarian: válogatott (hu), kiválogatott (hu), gondosan összeválogatott, kiszemelt (hu), kiválasztott (hu)
• Indonesian: tertentu (id)
• Latin: ēlectus
• Portuguese: seleto (pt), selecionado (pt)
• Slovak: vyvolený

of high quality; top-notch

• Bulgarian: висококачествен (bg) (visokokačestven)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精选 (zh) (jīng xuǎn)

• Hungarian: kitűnő (hu), kiváló (hu), exkluzív (hu), választékos (hu), finom (hu), előkelő (hu), válogatott (hu)
• Indonesian: pilihan (id)
• Portuguese: seleto (pt)
• Slovak: vyberaný
• Spanish: selecto (es)

Verb

select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)

1. To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

   He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.

   The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.

2. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

Conjugation

Conjugation of select

infinitive	(to) select
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	select	selected
2nd-person singular	select, selectest†	selected, selectedst†
3rd-person singular	selects, selecteth†	selected
plural	select
subjunctive	select	selected
imperative	select	—
participles	selecting	selected

^†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms

• (to choose): choose, opt

Antonyms

• deselect

Related terms

• elect
• election
• elective
• elite
• en
• option-select
• selection
• selective

 

Translations

to choose one or more elements from a set

• Arabic: اِخْتَارَ (iḵtāra)

  Egyptian Arabic: اختار (iḵtār)

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: һайлау (haylaw)/һайҙау (hayźaw)
• Basque: aukeratu, hautatu
• Bulgarian: избирам (bg) (izbiram)
• Catalan: seleccionar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 選／选 (zh) (xuǎn), 挑選／挑选 (zh) (tiāoxuǎn), 選拔／选拔 (zh) (xuǎnbá)

• Czech: vybrat (cs)
• Dutch: uitkiezen (nl), selecteer (nl)
• Egyptian: (stp)
• Esperanto: elekti, selekti
• Estonian: valima
• Evenki: синма- (sinma-)
• Finnish: valita (fi)
• French: choisir (fr), sélectionner (fr)
• Galician: escolmar (gl), escoller (gl), seleccionar
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: auswählen (de)
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waljan)
• Greek: επιλέγω (el) (epilégo)

  Ancient: αἱρέομαι (hairéomai), ἐκλέγω (eklégō)

• Haitian Creole: chwazi
• Hebrew: בחר (he) (bakhár)
• Higaonon: namili
• Hungarian: kiválaszt (hu), (creating a member out of someone, in preference to other candidates) beválogat (hu)
• Ido: selektar (io)
• Indonesian: memilih (id), pilih (id)
• Irish: togh
• Italian: scegliere (it), selezionare (it)
• Japanese: 選ぶ (ja) (えらぶ, erabu)
• Khmer: ជ្រើស (km) (crəəh), រើស (km) (rəəh), ជ្រើសរើស (crəəh rəəh), ចម្រាញ់ (km) (cɑmraɲ)
• Korean: 고르다 (ko) (goreuda)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەڵبژاردن (ckb) (hellbjardin)

  Northern Kurdish: hilbijartin (ku)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: legō (la), sēligō, dēligō, optō
• Luxembourgish: auswielen
• Maori: whiri, tīpako (in computing)
• Marathi: निवडणे (mr) (nivaḍṇe)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: छान्नु (chānnu)
• Old English: ceosan
• Ottoman Turkish: بگنمك (beğenmek)
• Polish: wybierać (pl) impf, wybrać (pl) pf, selekcjonować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: escolher (pt), selecionar (pt), optar por, seletar (pt)
• Quechua: akllay, chihlluy
• Romansch: selecziunar
• Russian: отбира́ть (ru) (otbirátʹ)
• Sanskrit: वृणोति (sa) (vṛṇoti)
• Scottish Gaelic: tagh
• Slovak: vybrať, vyberať, vybrať si, vyberať si
• Somali: xulid
• Spanish: seleccionar (es)
• Swedish: välja (sv), välja ut, utvälja
• Telugu: ఎంచు (te) (eñcu), ఎంచుకొను (te) (eñcukonu)
• Thai: คัดเลือก (th)
• Vietnamese: lựa (vi)
• Volapük: sesukön (vo)
• Welsh: dewis (cy), dethol (cy)

to obtain a set of data

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 选取 (zh) (xuǎnqǔ)

• Maori: tīpako
• Slovak: vyselektovať, selektovať

Derived terms

from all parts of speech

• autoselect
• bioselect
• counterselect
• downselect
• misselect
• multiselect
• overselect
• preselect
• quickselect
• reselect
• selectability
• selectable
• select agent
• select committee
• selectee
• selectin
• selectly
• selectman
• select meeting
• selectness
• selectome
• selector
• selectorate
• select out
• selectperson
• select vestry
• selectwoman
• self-select
• subselect
• superselect
• ultraselect
• underselect
• unselect

 

Anagrams

• celest, elects, scelet

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French select.

Adjective

select m or n (feminine singular selectă, masculine plural selecți, feminine and neuter plural selecte)

1. select

Declension

Declension of select

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	select		selectă	selecți	selecte
	definite	selectul		selecta	selecții	selectele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	select		selecte	selecți	selecte
	definite	selectului		selectei	selecților	selectelor