0 past simple and past participle of select
1 to choose a small number of things, or to choose by making careful decisions:
He was selected to play for Australia at the age of only 18.
The judges will select the best from this year's crop of first novels.
When you have selected the file you want, click the 'Open' box.
Click 'Tools', then select 'Options' from the pull-down menu.
The six papers that make up this issue have been selected purely on the basis of the formal refereeing process.
The placeholder objects were selected so that they were highly dissimilar to the object they replaced.
Test excavations were conducted at 37 sites, each of which was selected by a stratified random sampling strategy.
