Selected Select Sɪˈlekt Verb Team Hotels Carefully Excellent

• he hasn't been selected for the team.
• all our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide.
• she was selected as the parliamentary candidate for bath.
• a randomly selected sample of 23 schools

select

Verb Forms

1. to choose somebody/something from a group of people or things, usually according to a system
• He hasn't been selected for the team.
• All our hotels have been carefully selected for the excellent value they provide.
• She was selected as the parliamentary candidate for Bath.
• a randomly selected sample of 23 schools
• selected poems of T.S. Eliot
• This model is available at selected stores only.
• She selected an apple from the fruit bowl.
• It is important to select a software package that suits your requirements.
• Six theatre companies have been selected to take part in this year's festival.
• Select what you want from the options available.
• They could select from a range of choices depending on their interests and skills.

Extra Examples

• You can select goods from our catalogue.
• Students select modules according to their interests.
• The program automatically selects and stores the most frequently used data.
• The winning entry will be selected at random by computer.
• They were selected as finalists for this year's awards.
• They were selected on the basis of size.
• This anthology is well selected and presented.
• Although this was a very highly selected study group, the results were in agreement with our findings.
2. to mark something on a computer screen; to choose something, especially from a menu
• Select the text you want to format by holding down the left button on your mouse.
• Select ‘New Mail’ from the ‘Send’ menu.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent.: from Latin select- ‘chosen’, from the verb seligere, from se- ‘apart’ + legere ‘choose’.