WordReference.com English Dictionary
See Also:
seizing
seizure
sejant
Sekt
selachian
seladang
selah
seldom
select
select committee
selection
selection rule
selectional
selective
selective service
selectman
selector
selenide
selenite
selenium
selenium cell
seizure
sejant
Sekt
selachian
seladang
selah
seldom
select
select committee
selection
selection rule
selectional
selective
selective service
selectman
selector
selenide
selenite
selenium
selenium cell
Links:
- Abbreviations
- Pron. Symbols
- Forums
- Support WR
- Link to WR
- API
- Suggestions
- Click on word:
Recent searches:
Try out WordReference Random Word! Each page load will return a random word from the dictionary. Or test your knowledge and have each page load with the definition hidden!
selection: |
in Spanish | in French | in Italian English synonyms| in context | images |
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
selection/sɪˈlekʃn/
▶noun
- 1 the action or fact of selecting.
■ a number of selected things.
■ a range of things from which a choice may be made.
■ a horse or horses tipped as worth bets in a race or meeting.
- 2 Biology the evolutionary process which determines which types of organism thrive; natural selection.
'selection' also found in these Oxford entries:
casebook
- cheeseboard
- chrestomathy
- Darwinism
- discrimination
- draft
- eclogite
- eclogue
- elite
- evolution
- evolutionist
- forbid
- kin selection
- lot
- meze
- minibar
- natural selection
- neo-Darwinian
- perm
- permutation
- platter
- reckoning
- rijsttafel
- roster
- second ballot
- selection rule
- selective
- self-selection
- sexual selection
- social Darwinism
- sort
- survival
- time capsule
- trial
Forum discussions with the word(s) "selection" in the title:
A selection of colors let or lets?
admission by selection
book about Darwin's theory of natural selection
Choice/selection and preference.
I can't go through security without a random selection
identification and selection of mechanisms ARE
selected vs. subject to selection
selection
Selection board
Selection of <Wine / Wines> ?
Selection of the most important
selection vs choice
Sonja devotes a chapter to the selection of activities
The selection of certain prepositions by words[rules??]
The theology of academic selection
There is (a) clear selection for
wide selection and planning of renewable energy investments
Word selection
admission by selection
book about Darwin's theory of natural selection
Choice/selection and preference.
I can't go through security without a random selection
identification and selection of mechanisms ARE
selected vs. subject to selection
selection
Selection board
Selection of <Wine / Wines> ?
Selection of the most important
selection vs choice
Sonja devotes a chapter to the selection of activities
The selection of certain prepositions by words[rules??]
The theology of academic selection
There is (a) clear selection for
wide selection and planning of renewable energy investments
Word selection
Look up "selection" at Merriam-Webster
Look up "selection" at dictionary.com
In other languages: Spanish | French | Italian | Portuguese | German | Russian | Polish | Romanian | Czech | Greek | Turkish | Chinese | Japanese | Korean | Arabic
Copyright © 2012 WordReference.com
Please report any problems.