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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
selector
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
national
▪ Their teams were chosen by the national selectors.
▪ The unknown factor is whether this absence will force the national selectors to look elsewhere.
■ NOUN
switch
▪ The controls are standard volume and tone, with a three-way pickup selector switch.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Among a growing minority there was a tendency to immoderate attacks on selectors and, increasingly, Martin Crowe's leadership.
▪ Firstly selectors by nature have a conservative streak; this may not be a bad fault.
▪ Five years later - the Ashes series - he was a Test selector.
▪ Hedge selection More than 30 prospective hedges to choose from in our comprehensive and detailed selector table.
▪ In fairness to its selectors one must stress the virtual absence of any important body of writing expressing an alternative Left viewpoint.
▪ In so doing, this overrides the channel selector, bringing both channels into play at once.
▪ Their teams were chosen by the national selectors.
▪ There had been suggestions that he would move on after problems with his choice of selectors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Selector

Selector \Se*lect"or\, n. [L.] One who selects.

Wiktionary
selector

n. 1 Someone or something which selects or chooses different options. 2 # (context cricket English) An administrator responsible for selecting which players will play for a side. 3 # (context internet English) A matching expression in a stylesheet determining which elements in the markup are affected by a style. 4 # (context computing English) A pointer to a structure describing a segment of memory.

WordNet
selector
  1. n. a person who chooses or selects out [syn: picker, chooser]

  2. a switch that is used to select among alternatives [syn: selector switch]

Wikipedia
Selector

Selector may refer to:

  • Selector, electrical or mechanical component, a switch
  • Selector, music scheduling software for radio stations created by Radio Computing Services
  • Selector, a Reggae disc jockey
  • Selector, a person who made a selection of crown land in some Australian colonies
  • Selector (sport), person that chooses players for a sports team
  • Selector, part of Cascading Style Sheets programming language
  • "Selector", a song Skindred from 2002 album Babylon
  • Selector, part of Objective-C programming language
  • The Selector, radio program
  • Choice function on a family of sets
Selector (sport)

In many team sports, a selection panel consist of selectors who choose teams or individuals to represent a country or club in sporting competitions.

Selectors tend to be past players, but can also be current coaches, current captains may also have an influence.

Usage examples of "selector".

The squatter leased it on easy terms, and bought it only when it had sufficient value to be desired by agriculturists or by selectors who posed as agriculturists.

Miri was formally introduced to Edger, Handler, Selector, and Sheather, each by his abbreviated, visa name.

The racket reached the sharp ears of the Clutch, three floors up, and Edger so far forgot protocol as to cut short a question being posed by his brother Selector to rise and move, with haste, to the door.

The incapacitated pilot scored a shrewd blow with that suggestion, for Akin Davies the navigator had remustered from observer and knew almost as much as Jammy about bombsights, drift, markers and selector switches.

The Mreee and the Nitch were not as hard targets as the Titcher units and Bill felt that the gun, which was the first Gatling gun accessorized with a semiauto selector switch, was more in keeping with the threat.

He held a blush tinter in his hand and began clicking through the color selector.

Ryan thumbed the selector switch to auto and rode the rapidfire into tight groupings, the barrage of hot lead knocking down the sailors.

They constituted a language, a real and infinitely precise language, a language given by the semantic selector as it oriented the prepunched molecules that formed his brain.

Then everybody goes to lunch -- swells and selectors, Germans and Paddies, natives and immigrants, a good many of them, too, and there was eating and drinking and speechifying till all was blue.

Without taking her eyes off the group lying motionless on the ground, Carmen slapped the radio selector switch.

A terminal with several screens and an entertainment selector panel, black and silver, with aluminum controls, formed a cornerpiece between a black-upholstered recliner and a glass-sided, slender-legged desk.

Then everybody goes to lunch -- swells and selectors, Germans and Paddies, natives and immigrants, a good many of them, too, and there was eating and drinking and speechifying till all was blue.

She flipped the pickup selector switch on the front of the Strat, adjusted a tone knob, and then went off into a series of cascading arpeggios that ranged from despairing to joyous in the space of a few seconds.

Kwon and Vale weren't anywhere within ten klicks of Henslowe at the moment, but with a simple disk recording plus Skyler's skillful hand on the playback selector any eavesdropping collies should be convinced a major attack was in progress.

The scarred leader stared at Craig with smoky dark eyes for long seconds, and then, with his thumb, slid the rate of-fire selector on his rifle to automatic.