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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preselect

Preselect \Pre`se*lect"\, v. t. To select beforehand.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
preselect

also pre-select, 1856, from pre- + select (v.). Related: Preselected; preselecting.

Wiktionary
preselect

vb. To select in advance.

Usage examples of "preselect".

Each scrambled three-letter group in this book corresponded to a preselected word or phrase in another book.

Since they entered into that world with all their physicality, the fixation of their assemblage points on the position preselected by the inorganic beings was so overpowering that it created a sort of fog that obliterated any memory of the world they came from.

In addition to meeting people on your tour group, you will encounter people from new and completely different tour groups, because you will all be stopping at the same popular attractions, which have been thoughtfully preselected for you based on their cultural interest as measured in square footage of parking area.

In order to play, you must first pay the preselected entry fee for your particular mailing list.

It all seemed to come down to impeding the free flow of information to certain persons, preselected by an unspoken code somehow known to and agreed upon by all present but her.

In other words, she bound every one of those men with a gift of power consisting of a preselected, specific position of the assemblage point and all its implications.

The patrol had only a relatively short distance to cover to their preselected lay-up point.

With the aid of appropriate computational power one can plot a set of transformations that will carry one through nospace along quasi-geodetic lines corresponding to actual realspace vectors and allow one actually to reach a preselected destination.

Or else these people were somehow preselected for a certain combination of facial immobility and intensity of glance?

Drifting down to a second preselected location on the surface, they repeated the sequence before starting back to the shuttle.

The wall was a living brickwork of locksheets, laminated charts, one hundred thousand charts to the inch, the wall preselected and preassembled for all imaginable contingencies of the journey which, each time afresh, took the ship across half-unknown immensities of time and space.

Since they entered into that world with all their physicality, the fixation of their assemblage points on the position preselected by the inorganic beings was so overpowering that it created a sort of fog that obliterated any memory of the world they came from.

In addition to meeting people on your tour group, you will encounter people from new and completely different tour groups, because you will all be stopping at the same popular attractions, which have been thoughtfully preselected for you based on their cultural interest as measured in square footage of parking area.

McLanahan had only to position a set of electronic preselected aiming point on the radar scope, and the bombing computers would do the rest.

We decided that in game shows in the future, contestants will win a free focus-grouping, where they spend six hours with ten demographically preselected focus-groupers commenting and criticizing all aspects of their lives.