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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
select
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a select committee (=one of politicians and advisers who look at a particular subject)
select/choose a candidate
▪ Taylor was selected as Tory candidate.
selected individuals (=ones who are specially chosen for something)
▪ Selected individuals were invited to the dinner.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ Those to whom the questionnaire is sent have already been carefully selected as representative of the population to be studied.
▪ But there he was, already hunkered down, six carefully selected marbles from the others' collection, at his side.
▪ Material should also be selected carefully as the quality of the resource is more important than the quantity.
▪ It essentially involved asking individual children carefully selected questions and noting their responses and their reasoning for those responses.
▪ All the instructors are carefully selected by myself and they offer a very special service.
▪ This was Mark Rhoads, a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps who had been carefully selected for the assignment.
▪ Much of the time pupils will work on sources that have been carefully selected by the teacher.
▪ The date is carefully selected in consultation with merchant and consumer associations, he said.
randomly
▪ In the other two authorities the schools were selected randomly from school lists.
▪ Therefore, the advice of the efficient-market believers to select randomly becomes itself obsolete if everyone takes the advice!
▪ Recently, in one supermarket, oranges were selected randomly, some juice extracted and analysed.
▪ The accepted procedure is to randomly select the initial values for the weights.
▪ From the remainder, patients representing 12 times the number of participating general practitioners in the practice were selected randomly.
▪ Could it be that we just select randomly, in free variation, perhaps to add a little variety for its own sake?
▪ A total of 1, 206 randomly selected adults were interviewed Jan. 13-15 for this survey.
■ NOUN
area
▪ States select areas for program operation.
▪ For their lending they can select the areas with very little risk.
▪ A key point of the plan, the president said, is to allow growth in selected areas.
▪ When you have selected an area, keep the map in front of you.
▪ That system selects the cortical areas appropriate to the task at hand.
▪ He selected the relevant area and magnified it.
▪ The ad was airing in only selected areas, although the campaign would not say where.
basis
▪ Patients were selected consecutively on the basis of primary site of tumour.
▪ The teams were selected on the basis of the experience and expertise of their members.
▪ In this study, all subjects were selected on the basis of standard criteria of normality.
▪ There was also a senior executive who gave the appearance of selecting successors on the basis of competency.
▪ These groups were selected on the basis of their annual sales and total assets.
▪ After discussions with the client, a neutral viewpoint is selected as the basis for a root definition and conceptual model.
▪ Rather a home appeared to be selected upon the basis of availability rather than any other obvious criteria.
▪ In the simulation of a corporate plan, for example, the probabilistic elements are selected on a random basis.
candidate
▪ He'd gone down to Atlanta to watch the Democratic Party select its presidential candidate, and at night he went dancing.
▪ Another goal in picking a running mate is to avoid selecting a candidate who might add trouble to the ticket.
▪ Application forms Sometimes you will be required to fill in an application form which will be used to select candidates for interview.
▪ A search committee will be formed shortly to select candidates to replace Tien, but a decision is months away.
▪ He might have been selected as a Conservative candidate.
▪ In these systems, the electorate selects legislative candidates from a party committed to support a particular prime minister.
▪ The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism.
▪ Failure to select a suitable candidate because of age is often a covert form of racial and gender discrimination.
city
▪ By spring, the re-election campaign will be ready to respond, touting Clinton with television spots in selected cities.
committee
▪ Is not the question more one of how we select and appoint committees in the first place?
▪ A randomly selected redistricting committee would leave the real power, again, with unelected staff.
▪ Projects to be funded are selected by committees of scientists, occasionally joined by politicians and civil servants.
▪ Pinay Cuevas selected a committee of six men as financial advisers.
▪ Celia Weetman, 63, was selected by a national committee headed by Jack Jones.
event
▪ That is to say we can select any event in space time and always be able to find some frame for which.
▪ Becker is playing only selected events as he winds up his career and has retired from Grand Slam tournament play.
group
▪ Here the facilitator and originator jointly select a group of experts within the organization to review the idea.
▪ Self-Selection Another problem in selecting a comparison group is self-selection.
▪ If not, you should select them from group 2.
▪ In selecting this special group of children, it seemed to-me that Edward deserved the extra help as much as anyone.
▪ The panellists were selected from a group of 111 people who had responded to newspaper advertisements.
▪ It was decided, therefore, to select action and control groups on the basis of geographical area.
▪ When the list appears, select a group, click Subscribe, and then Goto to commence downloading the message headers.
▪ Assessment for selection Within school, pupils may be selected for a teaching group according to particular aspects of their school performance.
member
▪ They have committees selected by the members which report to councils elected by the member councils.
▪ Traditionally, the cabinet that had legislative support could select one of its members to serve as prime minister.
▪ It can not arbitrarily select the member state in which the parties to the merger have their highest market share.
▪ The Secretary of State for the Environment also selects board members, chairs and deputy chairs.
number
▪ In conference each week with them, he selects the musical numbers and their order on the programme.
▪ The important issue regarding sample size is not the number of cases included, but how the sample cases were selected.
▪ Don't worry if you haven't as our Tarot computer will select a number for you.
▪ We then select the number of nodes in the first hidden layer.
▪ One approach could be to select a number of different types of evidence on a related theme.
▪ Charges vary considerably according to the type of plan you select and the number of different investments you hold within it.
▪ Full records were selected by line number from a brief display screen.
▪ Each vertex in the coverage was perturbed by selecting random numbers from a uniform distribution, with ranges defined in Table 6.2.
option
▪ To view another set of packages, select the option again.
▪ To select without sorting, first define the selection condition, then press 5 to select the Action option.
▪ Press 3 to select the Select Printers option.
▪ You should either continue with further mail transactions or select another option.
▪ If you select the Timed Backup option, WordPerfect will save your document at whatever interval you specify.
▪ Used to input a value to select an option, specify a parameter, terminate a pause etc.
▪ Changes made through selecting this option are recorded on the disk and will remain in effect until unchanged.
sample
▪ The Sample Initially it was intended to select a sample of 800 teachers, 400 from primary and 400 from secondary schools.
▪ This step begins with selecting an appropriate sample of records to review.
▪ These criteria were used in selecting the sample.
▪ The data were gathered for a carefully selected national sample of voters in a survey designed by academic researchers.
▪ It is individuals who, in one capacity or another, appear on lists used by surveyors to select as their samples.
school
▪ And how will children be selected for those schools?
▪ How would I select a law school class?
▪ In the other two authorities the schools were selected randomly from school lists.
▪ The state Board of Education selected 56 tests that schools could use, receiving $ 5 per student from the state.
▪ Education authorities should select those schools which will benefit from participation in a Compact.
▪ Parents used them to select schools.
▪ If there was to be selection then some would inevitably be selected out of the grammar school class.
site
▪ He added the group is now trying to select the site for the 660, 000 square meter plant.
▪ After selecting a suitable site, the mite will use its mouth parts and its four front legs.
student
▪ In addition to the core course in Theory and Methods of Literary Study, students would normally select two one-term options.
▪ For example, what if a student committee selects the clergy and provides directions for the emphasis of the invocation?
▪ To write a computer program, the student selects appropriate labels and puts them in a tray.
▪ High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
▪ Scientific and Theoretical Studies - from which, subject to certain constraints, students select subjects of their choice.
▪ In the final year students are free to select their units, subject to the guidance of a member of staff.
▪ Because students select these programs themselves, they are more likely to commit to the learning that occurs there.
team
▪ It was discovered that all the other 9 offices has selected all male teams.
▪ After an initial round of proposals, the Navy selected three teams of contractors to develop the concept to a preliminary design.
word
▪ This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on the screen by pressing a switch in my hand.
▪ I learned very quickly that it was not necessary, and it was not helpful, to select only the simplest words.
▪ But I did select my own peg words and you will have to do this too.
▪ Press 1 to select the first word in the field. 11.
▪ TypeI to select the first word on the right side of the field. 13.
▪ Higueras speaks calmly, softly, selecting only the necessary words to help his pupils.
▪ However, a knowledge of pair-wise transitional probability is often insufficient to select the target word string.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Yesterday's semi-finalists were allowed to select their own set of stones.
▪ A key point of the plan, the president said, is to allow growth in selected areas.
▪ The direct-manipulation interface allows users to select a link object and be shown a paragraph or conversely.
▪ He had been offered a taste of it from a can he had been allowed to select himself.
▪ So I allow for this when selecting which club to play.
▪ The Insert / Typeover setting allows you to select which mode is the default.
▪ The automatic transmission also allows the driver to select either of two sets of shifting points to emphasize power or economy.
press
▪ Select the player you wish to drop, press fire, select his replacement, press fire again.
▪ Press F7 to return to the bottom prompt line. 12. Press 1 to select Perform Action.
▪ To select without sorting, first define the selection condition, then press 5 to select the Action option.
▪ Press Shift-F7 to display the prompt line 4. Press 4 to select the Printer Control option.
▪ Press 2. the regular sorting prompt line reappears. 7. Press 1 to select Perform Action.
▪ Press Enter twice to reach the second key. 10. Press N to select a numeric field. 11.
▪ Highlight the desired file using the arrow keys, then press Return to select 6, the default Look option.
▪ Press N for a numeric field. 8. Press 2 to select the second field as the first key. 9.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ernst had been selected to play in the game against Belgium.
▪ I selected four postcards.
▪ It's very important that parents select the right school for a child with learning difficulties.
▪ Our wines have been carefully selected from vineyards throughout Europe.
▪ The college selects only twelve students a year from the thousands who apply.
▪ The team's name was selected from more than 1,700 suggestions.
▪ To create parallel columns, press Alt-F7 and select option 4.
▪ We selected four applicants for interview.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Avoid the temptation to select too much.
▪ Beginning salaries were slightly higher in selected areas where the prevailing local pay level was higher.
▪ Candidates for the union are supposed to be selected in 1998, based on 1997 performance.
▪ Most begin with a simple picture that will help you select and set up the demonstration.
▪ The ad was airing in only selected areas, although the campaign would not say where.
▪ The fund manager can, therefore, select the mix of bonds which offers the most attractive yield and capital growth potential.
▪ This feature should clearly be borne in mind whilst selecting a shortlist.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
band
▪ They are reclusive and idiosyncratic, dwelling in exquisite mansions far from each other with their families and a select band of retainers.
▪ Safeway supermarket group Argyll was also one of the select band to enjoy share price rises.
committee
▪ In 1838 he had made an important statement of evidence before the select committee on workmen's combinations.
▪ It is not uncommon for a government backbencher to support his select committee as opposed to a ministerial view.
▪ The government argued that select committees could examine the actions of civil servants but not their conduct.
▪ A total of 93 select committee meetings were televised.
▪ Initially, the post had been envisaged at a lower level, but the Lords select committee pushed for this power.
▪ However, a select committee can ask that ministers review the conduct of a particular official.
▪ This function is now discharged by departmental select committees.
▪ But the select committee seems to be technically ill-informed.
group
▪ They number just 11, and are undoubtedly the most select group of women in the world.
▪ These eight are the select group of veteran revolutionaries who remain powerful, despite their average age of 84 years.
▪ Sugarpuss remained the mascot of the brothers and the select group of friends they allowed up the rope.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ select golfing vacations
▪ DiTucci tested the formula on a select number of patients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the time Cook was concentrating on smaller, more select parties which left a gap in the market for larger tours.
▪ It opens in select theaters nationwide today.
▪ She tests it only on a select number of patients and makes sure that she is the only one who applies it.
▪ Still, the Carolingian Renaissance in the mid-ninth century touched far more than just a select clerical few.
▪ Yet they fought allowing women to compete for opportunity in the select academies from which the leadership is so heavily drawn.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Select

Select \Se*lect"\, a. [L. selectus, p. p. of seligere to select; pref. se- aside + levere to gather. See Legend.] Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choice.

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

Select

Select \Se*lect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Selected; p. pr. & vb. n. Selecting.] To choose and take from a number; to take by preference from among others; to pick out; to cull; as, to select the best authors for perusal. ``One peculiar nation to select.''
--Milton.

The pious chief . . . A hundred youths from all his train selects.
--Dryden.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
select

1560s, from Latin selectus, past participle of seligere "choose out, single out, select; separate, cull," from se- "apart" (see secret (n.)) + legere "to gather, select" (see lecture (n.)). The noun meaning "a selected person or thing, that which is choice" is recorded from c.1600. New England selectman first recorded 1640s.

select

"to single out one or more out of a number of things of the same kind," 1560s, from select (adj.) or from Latin selectus. Related: Selected; selecting.

Wiktionary
select

  1. 1 privileged, specially selected. 2 Of high quality; top-notch. v

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

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WordNet
select

  1. adj. of superior grade; "choice wines"; "prime beef"; "prize carnations"; "quality paper"; "select peaches" [syn: choice, prime(a), prize, quality]

  2. selected or chosen for special qualifications; "the blue-ribbon event of the season" [syn: blue-ribbon(a)]

select

v. 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" [syn: choose, take, pick out]

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Wikipedia
SELECT
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Select (SQL)

The SQL SELECT statement returns a result set of records from one or more tables.

A SELECT statement retrieves zero or more rows from one or more database tables or database views. In most applications, SELECT is the most commonly used data manipulation language (DML) command. As SQL is a declarative programming language, SELECT queries specify a result set, but do not specify how to calculate it. The database translates the query into a " query plan" which may vary between executions, database versions and database software. This functionality is called the " query optimizer" as it is responsible for finding the best possible execution plan for the query, within applicable constraints.

The SELECT statement has many optional clauses:

  • [[Where (SQL)|WHERE]] specifies which rows to retrieve.
  • [[Group by (SQL)|GROUP BY]] groups rows sharing a property so that an aggregate function can be applied to each group.
  • [[Having (SQL)|HAVING]] selects among the groups defined by the GROUP BY clause.
  • [[Order by (SQL)|ORDER BY]] specifies an order in which to return the rows.
  • [[Alias (SQL)|AS]] provides an alias which can be used to temporarily rename tables or columns.
Select (magazine)

Select was a United Kingdom music magazine of the 1990s which was particularly known for covering Britpop, a term coined in the magazine by Stuart Maconie. Its 1993 "Yanks Go Home" edition, featuring The Auteurs, Denim, Saint Etienne, Pulp and Suede's Brett Anderson on the cover in front of a Union Flag, was an important impetus in defining the movement's opposition to American genres such as grunge.

The magazine launched in mid 1990 and folded in late 2000, mirroring the rise and decline of the Britpop scene with which it became synonymous.

Select (album)

Select is the second studio album by Kim Wilde, released on May 10, 1982 via RAK label.

Select (Unix)

'''select''' is a system call and application programming interface (API) in Unix-like and POSIX-compliant operating systems for examining the status of file descriptors of open input/output channels. The select system call is similar to the poll facility introduced in UNIX System V and later operating systems.

In the C programming language, the select system call is declared in the header file sys/select.h or unistd.h, and has the following syntax:

int select(int nfds, fd_set *readfds, fd_set *writefds, fd_set *errorfds, struct timeval *timeout);

argument

description

nfds

This is an integer one more than the maximum of any file descriptor in any of the sets. In other words, while adding file descriptors to each of the sets, you must calculate the maximum integer value of all of them, then increment this value by one, and then pass this as nfds.

readfds

fd_set type holding the file descriptors to be checked for being ready to read, and on output indicates which file descriptors are ready to read. Can be NULL.

writefds

fd_set type holding the file descriptors to be checked for being ready to write, and on output indicates which file descriptors are ready to write. Can be NULL.

errorfds

fd_set type holding the file descriptors to be checked for error conditions pending, and on output indicates which file descriptors have error conditions pending. Can be NULL.

timeout

structure of type struct timeval that specifies a maximum interval to wait for the selection to complete. If the timeout argument points to an object of type struct timeval whose members are 0, select does not block. If the timeout argument is NULL, select blocks until an event causes one of the masks to be returned with a valid (non-zero) value. Linux will update the timeout in place to indicate how much time was elapsed, though this behavior is not shared by most other Unix systems.

fd_set type arguments may be manipulated with four utility macros: FD_SET , FD_CLR , FD_ZERO , and FD_ISSET .

Select returns the total number of bits set in readfds, writefds and errorfds, or zero if the timeout expired, and -1 on error.

The sets of file descriptor used in select are finite in size, depending on the operating system. The newer system call poll provides a more flexible solution.

SELECT (Electrical Contractors' Association of Scotland)

SELECT, founded in 1900 as the Electrical Contractors' Association of Scotland, is the Scottish construction trade association for specialist businesses in the electrical industry.

With the Unite the Union, SELECT established the Scottish Electrical Charitable Training Trust (SECTT), a not-for-profit organisation concerned with training apprentices within the SJIB Apprenticeship Scheme, the only industry-approved training scheme for electrical contracting apprenticeships in Scotland. The SJIB (Scottish Joint Industry Board) was co-founded in 1969 by SELECT and Unite the Union, then known as AMICUS.

Along with the NICEIC, SELECT is authorised by the Scottish Government to assess and register electricians who are competent to carry out and certify electrical installation work in Scotland in compliance with UK Building Regulations. SELECT was the first Scheme Provider for the Certification of Construction (Electrical Installations to BS 7671).

In September 2010, SELECT established a Scottish Environmental Technologies Training Centre to provide training for electricians, heating engineers and plumbers in the latest developments in energy-saving technologies.

It is one of six associations represented by the Specialist Engineering Contractors Group on the UK government's Strategic Forum for Construction.

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Usage examples of "select".

His speech was very moderate, although it might have appeared that he was guided by some acrimonious feeling in selecting Lord Glenelg for attack.

June 23 thirtynine leaves from North Wales, which were selected owing to objects of some kind adhering to them.

We selected couples we adjudged to be sufficiently useless to society that they would not be missed, in accordance with my policy.

In fact, an aggravation of the symptoms is evidence that the right remedy has been selected and is at work.

Ignoring the badinage, Ake walked over to where the rubies lay on the floor, kneeled down, and began selecting likely prospects.

Selecting a long-stemmed goblet of greenish wine and a stylish little Perkup nasal inhaler, Alacrity sighed.

Selecting his first shaft with care, Alec sent it straight into the center of the first bull.

Relaxed after the hunt, warm under the limpid trees, a little stirred by the romance and the artifice, the English Ambassage lay listening, smiling, and watched the young man who had given Sir John Perrott a poor game, but had clearly been selected by the Scottish Queen for quite different talents.

There Amir waited with the Aman and four Arabic speaking men, selected from the crew to witness the wedding.

Amidst the crowd, our annalist has selected the names, colors, and devices, of twenty of the most conspicuous knights.

On the defeat of the Austrians, who were commanded by the Archduke Charles, that commander took a circuitous route through Bohemia, and finally occupied the bank of the Danube opposite Vienna, over against the proud victor Napoleon, who, selecting for the passage of the river the place where two islands divide the Danube into three arms, conducted his battalions to the left bank, occupied Aspern, Engesdorf, and Esslingen, and offered battle.

She selected the largest aspidistra and kissed one of its impassive shining surfaces.

The assayer, as a rule, can select his own standard temperature, and may choose one which will always necessitate warming.

Sonora Joe, who was one of the selected chiefs of our auriferous republic.

Assuming that the beginning writer will first try to write an autobiographical novel, we have some words of advice on selecting a viewpoint.