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select (verb), selects; selected; selecting
1. To choose someone or something from among several.
2. Chosen on the basis of some particularly high quality.
3. To pick out or to choose from a number of alternative choices.
4. Etymology: from Latin selectus, seligere, "choose out, select"; from se-, "apart" + legere, "to gather, to select".
This entry is located in the following units: legi-, -leg-, -ligi-, -lig-, -lect-, -lectic, -lection (page 7) se- (page 2)
(Latin: to pluck, to pick out, to gather, to select)
(Latin: a taking, to take, to take up, to buy, to select; to use, to spend, to consume)