• IPA: /sɪˈlɛkt/

select

1. Privileged, specially selected.

   Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 20, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

2. Of high quality; top-notch.

   This is a select cut of beef.

• French: sélect
• Portuguese: seleto, selecionado

• Portuguese: seleto
• Spanish: selecto

select (selects, present participle selecting; past and past participle selected)

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

   He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.

   The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.

2. (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

• (to choose) choose, opt

• deselect

• French: choisir, sélectionner
• German: auswählen
• Italian: scegliere, selezionare
• Portuguese: escolher, selecionar, optar por, seletar
• Russian: отбира́ть
• Spanish: seleccionar

select (plural selects)

1. A button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.