selects English
Verb
(head)
(select)
select English
Adjective
( en adjective)
Privileged, specially selected.
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*:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
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*: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.
Of high quality; top-notch.
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Verb
( en verb)
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.
Synonyms
* (to choose) choose, opt
Related terms
* elect
* election
* elective
* elite
* selection
* selective
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elects English
Verb
(head)
(elect)
Anagrams
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elect English
Noun
( en-noun)
One chosen or set apart.
(uncountable, theology) In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
* Bible, Isaiah xlii. 1
- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect , in whom my soul delighteth.
* Bible, Luke xviii. 7
- Shall not God avenge his won elect ?
Antonyms
* reprobate
Verb
( en verb)
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
Related terms
* election
* elective
* elite
* select
* selection
* selective
Adjective
( -)
(used only after the noun) Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
- He is the President-elect .
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 16
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect .
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
* Spenser
- colours quaint elect
* Bible, 1 Timothy v. 21
- the elect angels
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