0 to choose a small number of things, or to choose by making careful decisions: --
1 of only the best type or highest quality, and usually small in size or amount: --
These activities should be available to all students, not just a select few.
It's a very select club - I've been trying unsuccessfully to join it for years.
4 to choose someone or something from a group of people or things after careful thought: --
select (sth) from sth We were able to select from a large pool of applicants and to recruit people of a high standard.
select sth/sb for sth The application form will be used to select candidates for interview.
select sth/sb as sth The bank has just been selected as the preferred bidder for Brussels International Airport.
5 to choose something from a computer menu (= list), or to mark something that you have chosen on a computer screen: --
Then welding conditions of the selected welding part are set.
The sample was selected through systematic sampling, selecting every fourth woman consecutively.
Independent raters reviewed audiotapes of 242 randomly selected informant interviews.
Second, we selected patients diagnosed with the combined subtype.
The specific subscales selected for inclusion in the model were limited to those which contribute independent variance to the prediction of eating disturbance status.
The seven variables (described above) selected from these tests were entered into the factor analysis.
A randomly selected 30 % of all interactions were independently coded and reliability checked by two trained coders.
They have been selected because of the extensive expertise in the area that their indicator covers.
