pick(CHOOSE)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to choose or choose to do something
chooseThere are thirty-one flavours of ice cream to choose from.
pickHe's been picked for the school football team.
selectWe've selected three candidates.
opt (for)Mike's opted for early retirement.
decide (on)I've decided on blue walls for the bathroom.
go forUKI think I'll go for the chocolate cake.
He was selected to play for Australia at the age of only 18.他才18岁就被选进了澳大利亚队。
I selected the best staff available.
The judges will select the best from this year's crop of first novels.评委们将从今年的一批处女作小说中选出最出色的一部。
When you have selected the file you want, click the 'Open' box.选中了你想要的文件，用鼠标点击“打开”方框。
Click 'Tools', then select 'Options' from the pull-down menu.点击“工具”，然后从下拉式菜单里选择“选项”。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking and choosing
adopt
adopted
adoption
appoint
bags I...idiom
be your best betidiom
cull
empanel
faute de mieux
favoured
filterable
first choice
plump for something/someone
Robin Hood
select
selection
selective
skim
you name itidiom
you pays your money and you takes your choice/chanceidiom

Examples of selected

selected

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
One 5- 5-m square (or a 1% sampling fraction) from each stratum was randomly selected using a table of random numbers.
A random sample of patients with none of the above three co-morbid conditions (hereafter called the general group) was selected for comparison.
A brief excerpt, selected almost at random, may hint at its flavor.
A stratified random sample of 1672 individuals was selected for study purposes out of 10 569 residents, stratified by age and gender.
From each of these four programs and for each grade, three reading texts were selected at random.
A group of 29 control children, selected from the same school population as the dyslexics, took part in the experiment.
In each area there is a synthesis of selected research findings, with commentary on major debates.
From the 2 tables, a threshold of 9.21 at two degrees of freedom and 99% confidence is selected for this demonstration.
Coders were trained to reliability using selected video recorded free-play episodes that had been previously coded by criterion coders.
Depending on the parameters selected, and the initial conditions, the simulated temporal trajectories may exhibit either regular (periodic and quasi-periodic) or chaotic behaviour.
Patients were selected for this trial if they had suffered from nonspecific low back pain for at least 6 weeks.
This is a reasonable assumption because individual trees serving as parents are usually selected randomly from natural populations.
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