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 selecting

selecting

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

In practice, pupils found the process of selecting sounds relatively straightforward and unproblematic.
Traversal is performed by selecting a node from the task pool, visiting that node, and then adding its successor nodes to the pool.
Second, although we are selecting for study children who are regarded as having pragmatic difficulties, the exact nature of those difficulties remains unclear.
The selection can be performed by calculating the gain factors in all triplets and selecting the one which produces positive factors.
The designer is responsible for browsing through the cases and for selecting the most appropriate one to solve the problem at hand.
Treatment just before the antibodies are triggered results in a very high probability of selecting a drug-resistant population.
In the production of electronic music, the sampling process encompasses selecting, recording, editing and processing sound pieces to be incorporated into a larger musical work.
The records from which the past can be reconstructed are too extensive to be presented coherently without editing and selecting.
The eleven-yearolds and adults no longer show a bias toward selecting a compound interpretation regardless of stress.
Care managers said that users rarely exercised or were offered a choice in selecting a domiciliary care agency.
It advises on criteria for selecting technologies for review, procedures for conducting reviews, and linkages with related activities and processes.
By selecting the most informative sentence, the title is filtered out.
In addition, we use sink annotations explicitly in selecting potential projections for higher-order meta-variables.
Figure 17 shows an example of a refined control rule for selecting the bindings.
With the benefit of these refinements, single females in the younger age category emerge as more likely selecting lower risk investment choices in this study.
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