Select
verb
To carefully choose as being the best or most valuable.
You have to select the right answer from the multiple choices.
Often appears as...
- select a meal
- select a gift
adjective
Specially chosen or the best of a group.
They serve only a select group of customers.
Often appears as...
- select group
- select committee
verb
To choose a player for a team.
The coach will select the players for the next match today.
Often appears as...
- select a player
- select a team
verb
To highlight or choose a portion of a digital text or image.
Select the text you want to copy and then press Ctrl+C.
Often appears as...
- select text
- select file
Usage tips
Technical
verb
To carefully choose as being the best or most valuable.
You have to select the right answer from the multiple choices.
Often appears as...
- select a meal
- select a gift
adjective
Specially chosen or the best of a group.
They serve only a select group of customers.
Often appears as...
- select group
- select committee
verb
To choose a player for a team.
The coach will select the players for the next match today.
Often appears as...
- select a player
- select a team
verb
To highlight or choose a portion of a digital text or image.
Select the text you want to copy and then press Ctrl+C.
Often appears as...
- select text
- select file
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Careful Choice
Used when the act of choosing requires thoughtful consideration or criteria.
Select your career path based on your interests and strengths.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Random
Implies that the choice is not made by chance, but with a specific purpose in mind.
Select a ripe melon from the bunch; don't just grab any.
Pro Tip 3/3Best or Valuable
Suggests a process of picking the superior or most useful item from a group.
I need to select the best essay to submit for the competition.
Pro Tip 1/3Careful Choice
Used when the act of choosing requires thoughtful consideration or criteria.
Select your career path based on your interests and strengths.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Random
Implies that the choice is not made by chance, but with a specific purpose in mind.
Select a ripe melon from the bunch; don't just grab any.
Pro Tip 3/3Best or Valuable
Suggests a process of picking the superior or most useful item from a group.
I need to select the best essay to submit for the competition.
Pro Tip 1/3Careful Choice
Used when the act of choosing requires thoughtful consideration or criteria.
Select your career path based on your interests and strengths.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Random
Implies that the choice is not made by chance, but with a specific purpose in mind.
Select a ripe melon from the bunch; don't just grab any.
Pro Tip 3/3Best or Valuable
Suggests a process of picking the superior or most useful item from a group.
I need to select the best essay to submit for the competition.
Never forget "Select"
Humans forget easily. That's why you should download WordUp: Smart reminders, word games, AI practice, and much more!
Video examples
Why are there so many...
breeders first need to find parent apples that carry those characteristics. Once the parents have been selected, they have to wait until the trees bloom in the spring. The breeder takes the pollen from one bloom, called the father, and transfers it by hand to the other parent bloom, called the mother,
Video examples
How to create a great...
brands in the world it's getting harder to create and find a unique name so how do you create a great brand name how can you play and win the name game you start with three steps first select what type of name you want there are seven different categories of names and pretty much every brand in the
Video examples
What is love? - Brad...
to how we raise kids. Thus, some argue that the feeling you think you feel in your soul is just biology's way to make you continue our species. Nature has selected you to have crushes on hotties, just like it makes monkeys have crushes on hot monkeys, and biology marches on.
Video examples
Caring For A Sickly Baby...
right luckily it's always the best matter to to make new pairs not to to select the yeah let them select and then it's really love so she will become a very important part of the mccall breeding program now and you will hope what sort of
Video examples
How your brain decides...
Beauty is a work in progress. The so-called universal attributes of beauty were selected for during the almost two million years of the Pleistocene. Life was nasty, brutish and a very long time ago.
Video examples
These Seeds Can Walk! PIPE...
they also selected those individuals which put their energy into developing much larger seeds close relationships like this have developed all over the world producing the plants that are now
Video examples
Why certain naturally...
however counterintuitive that seems. In fact, several forest species, such as select conifers, need fire to survive. But how can fire possibly create life in addition to destroying it?
Video examples
Wolf Pack Takes on a...
At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life, though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
Video examples
Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
for these feelings of caring the case has been made for empathy amongst just a few select species including dolphins primates and dogs
Video examples
The Harp Seal's Race...
At first glance the arctic feel brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive.
Video examples
Why are there so many...
breeders first need to find parent apples that carry those characteristics. Once the parents have been selected, they have to wait until the trees bloom in the spring. The breeder takes the pollen from one bloom, called the father, and transfers it by hand to the other parent bloom, called the mother,
Video examples
How to create a great...
brands in the world it's getting harder to create and find a unique name so how do you create a great brand name how can you play and win the name game you start with three steps first select what type of name you want there are seven different categories of names and pretty much every brand in the
Video examples
What is love? - Brad...
to how we raise kids. Thus, some argue that the feeling you think you feel in your soul is just biology's way to make you continue our species. Nature has selected you to have crushes on hotties, just like it makes monkeys have crushes on hot monkeys, and biology marches on.
Video examples
Caring For A Sickly Baby...
right luckily it's always the best matter to to make new pairs not to to select the yeah let them select and then it's really love so she will become a very important part of the mccall breeding program now and you will hope what sort of
Video examples
How your brain decides...
Beauty is a work in progress. The so-called universal attributes of beauty were selected for during the almost two million years of the Pleistocene. Life was nasty, brutish and a very long time ago.
Video examples
These Seeds Can Walk! PIPE...
they also selected those individuals which put their energy into developing much larger seeds close relationships like this have developed all over the world producing the plants that are now
Video examples
Why certain naturally...
however counterintuitive that seems. In fact, several forest species, such as select conifers, need fire to survive. But how can fire possibly create life in addition to destroying it?
Video examples
Wolf Pack Takes on a...
At first glance, the Arctic feels brutally devoid of life, though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive. But the real force here works quietly underfoot.
Video examples
Do Animals Feel Empathy?...
for these feelings of caring the case has been made for empathy amongst just a few select species including dolphins primates and dogs
Video examples
The Harp Seal's Race...
At first glance the arctic feel brutally devoid of life. Though a select group of animals have figured out a way to thrive.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Taylor Swift
American Singer
As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
Quote examples
Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.
Quote examples
Jimmy Scott
American Musician
There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.
Quote examples
Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.
Quote examples
Henry Adams
American Historian
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Quote examples
Karren Brady
British Public Servant
I remember when I was young, I used to love hockey - I was selected to play for my county - and my dad said: 'Well, there's no money to be made in hockey,' and it put me off for ever.
Quote examples
Evelyn Lauder
Austrian Businessman
The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.
Quote examples
Joseph Addison
English Writer
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Quote examples
Aretha Franklin
American Musician
Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can't please everybody, and as long as I'm comfortable with what I wear, I think that's what's important.
Quote examples
Gregory Benford
American Physicist
Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.
Quote examples
Taylor Swift
American Singer
As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
Quote examples
Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.
Quote examples
Jimmy Scott
American Musician
There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the height of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.
Quote examples
Jesse Eisenberg
American Actor
People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.
Quote examples
Henry Adams
American Historian
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Quote examples
Karren Brady
British Public Servant
I remember when I was young, I used to love hockey - I was selected to play for my county - and my dad said: 'Well, there's no money to be made in hockey,' and it put me off for ever.
Quote examples
Evelyn Lauder
Austrian Businessman
The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.
Quote examples
Joseph Addison
English Writer
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Quote examples
Aretha Franklin
American Musician
Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can't please everybody, and as long as I'm comfortable with what I wear, I think that's what's important.
Quote examples
Gregory Benford
American Physicist
Whatever the life form, evolution selects for economy of resources.
Example 1 of 10
WordUp Chrome Extension
As you browse the web instantly look up words you don’t know.
Get Chrome Extension