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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. tending to select; characterized by careful choice; "an exceptionally quick and selective reader"- John Mason Brown characterized by very careful or fastidious selection; "the school was very selective in its admissions"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s; see select (adj.) + -ive . Related: Selectively ; selectiveness . Selective service is from 1917, American English.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Selective may refer to: Selective Insurance , an American insurance company Selective school , a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria Selective school (New South Wales)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the process of selection.(rfex) 2 (context of a person English) choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting. 3 (context chiefly US not comparable English) Having the authority or capability to make a selection.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB highly ▪ It is inevitably highly selective , both in the Acts it covers and in what it includes from each Act. ▪ But memory is highly selective , particularly within an organization that has weathered numerous ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Selective \Se*lect"ive\, a. Selecting; tending to select. This selective providence of the Almighty. --Bp. Hall.
Usage examples of selective.
Programs on supersonic reaction initiation, free radical mechanisms, photocatalysis, and selective adsorption would be quietly, even surreptitiously, phased out.
Meeting his eyes, which were wide-set and had the brackeny brightness of well-water in the sun, she recognised there the real significance of her own selective behaviour.
Men had gone mad, in these first minutes following decarbonization, hopelessly, utterly madunable ever again to reorganize the ten-billion individual images that comprised a lifespan into any kind of coherent, selective order.
He worked exclusively with the so-called junk DNA in rats, introducing a selective catalyst through the cell wall on a folic acid carrier to delete specific but unimportant nucleotides.
The unique heterocyclic structure of the tetrodotoxin molecule is selective for the sodium channels.
Judeo-Christian religion was scrapped along with all the others, His Goldness I freed mankind from muddlement and slavery by designing the Code Complex, popularly called the Prism, as it is where every human is coded at birth and conditioned through selective and deprivational feeding of body and mind toward his ultimate use in the world.
Judeo Christian religion was scrapped along with all the others, His Goldness I freed mankind from muddlement and slavery by designing the Code Complex, popularly called the Prism, as it is where every human is coded at birth and conditioned through selective and deprivational feeding of body and mind toward his ultimate use in the world.
Just about the time she outgrew the unpleasant chore of kissing her New England aunts and grandmothers, and could get a little selective in her osculation, she married me and moved to New Mexico, where, she discovered to her horror, it was her social duty to take on all corners.
The benefits of perceiving this information have provided the selective pressure that has driven the evolution of the ability to perceive musicality.
It does indeed seem to me, however, that you do have psychogenic, selective, retrograde amnesia, the variety temporarily induced by the blanking process.
This volume, therefore, while the most comprehensive dissertation yet published on modern science fiction and the authors who create it, is essentially selective.
General Blitzkrieg had hit something over a hundred balls, but by incredibly selective scorekeeping, had managed to put only forty-two strokes down on his scorecard.
Rational despotism--that is, selective despotism--is always a curse to mankind, because with that you have the ordinary man misunderstood and misgoverned by some prig who has no brotherly respect for him at all.
But here the selective influence of predation would be, if anything, in the direction of making the cries quieter.
Instead of wreaking wholesale havoc on the roster, I concluded we could make selective changes.