# select
## English
### Etymology

From Latin sēlēctus, perfect passive participle of sēligō (“choose out, select”), from sē- (“without; apart”) + legō (“gather, select”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪˈlɛkt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛkt
* Hyphenation: se‧lect

### Adjective

select (comparative more select, superlative most select)
* Privileged, specially selected.
    Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
** 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XX, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:A few select spirits had separated from the crowd, and formed a fit audience round a far greater teacher.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: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.
* Of high quality; top-notch.
    This is a select cut of beef.

#### Translations
### Verb

select (third-person singular simple present selects, present participle selecting, simple past and past participle selected)
* 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.
* (databases) To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) select | (to) select |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | select | selected |
| 2nd-person singular | select, selectest$^†$ | selected, selectedst$^†$ |
| 3rd-person singular | selects, selecteth$^†$ | selected |
| plural | select | selected |
| subjunctive | select | selected |
| imperative | select | — |
| participles | selecting | selected |
$^†$Archaic or obsolete.

#### Synonyms

* (to choose): choose, opt

#### Antonyms

* deselect

#### Related terms

* elect
* election
* elective
* elite
* en
* option-select
* selection
* selective

#### Translations

Arabic: اِخْتَارَ (iḵtāra)
Egyptian Arabic: اختار (iḵtār)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bashkir: һайлау (haylaw)/һайҙау (hayźaw)
Basque: aukeratu, hautatu
Bulgarian: избирам (bg) (izbiram)
Catalan: seleccionar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 選 / 选 (zh) (xuǎn), 挑選 / 挑选 (zh) (tiāoxuǎn), 選拔 / 选拔 (zh) (xuǎnbá)
Czech: vybrat (cs)
Dutch: uitkiezen (nl), selecteer (nl)
Egyptian: (stp)
Esperanto: elekti, selekti
Estonian: valima
Evenki: синма- (sinma-)
Finnish: valita (fi)
French: choisir (fr), sélectionner (fr)
Galician: escolmar (gl), escoller (gl), seleccionar
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: auswählen (de)
Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (waljan)
Greek: επιλέγω (el) (epilégo)
Ancient: αἱρέομαι (hairéomai), ἐκλέγω (eklégō)
Haitian Creole: chwazi
Hebrew: בחר (he) (bakhár)
Higaonon: namili
Hungarian: kiválaszt (hu), (creating a member out of someone, in preference to other candidates) beválogat (hu)
Ido: selektar (io)
Indonesian: memilih (id), pilih (id)
Irish: togh
Italian: scegliere (it), selezionare (it)
Japanese: 選ぶ (ja) (えらぶ, erabu)
Khmer: ជ្រើស (km) (crəəh), រើស (km) (rəəh), ជ្រើសរើស (crəəh rəəh), ចម្រាញ់ (km) (cɑmraɲ)
Korean: 고르다 (ko) (goreuda)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ھەڵبژاردن (ckb) (hellbjardin)
Northern Kurdish: hilbijartin (ku)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: legō (la), sēligō, dēligō, optō
Luxembourgish: auswielen
Maori: whiri, tīpako (in computing)
Marathi: निवडणे (mr) (nivaḍṇe)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: छान्नु (chānnu)
Old English: ceosan
Ottoman Turkish: بگنمك (beğenmek)
Polish: wybierać (pl) impf, wybrać (pl) pf, selekcjonować (pl) impf
Portuguese: escolher (pt), selecionar (pt), optar por, seletar (pt)
Quechua: akllay, chihlluy
Romansch: selecziunar
Russian: отбира́ть (ru) (otbirátʹ)
Sanskrit: वृणोति (sa) (vṛṇoti)
Scottish Gaelic: tagh
Slovak: vybrať, vyberať, vybrať si, vyberať si
Somali: xulid
Spanish: seleccionar (es), cribar (es) (rigorous)
Swedish: välja (sv), välja ut, utvälja (sv)
Telugu: ఎంచు (te) (eñcu), ఎంచుకొను (te) (eñcukonu)
Thai: คัดเลือก (th)
Vietnamese: lựa (vi)
Volapük: sesukön (vo)
Welsh: dewis (cy), dethol (cy) :

### Derived terms

* autoselect
* bioselect
* counterselect
* downselect
* hand-select
* misselect
* multiselect
* overselect
* preselect
* quickselect
* reselect
* selectability
* selectable
* select agent
* select committee
* selectee
* selectin
* selectly
* selectman
* select meeting
* selectness
* selectome
* selector
* selectorate
* select out
* selectperson
* select vestry
* selectwoman
* self-select
* subselect
* superselect
* ultraselect
* underselect
* unselect
* Western Canadian Select

### Anagrams

* celest, elects, scelet

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French select.

### Adjective

select m or n (feminine singular selectă, masculine plural selecți, feminine and neuter plural selecte)
* select