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Selection

noun

The act of choosing or selecting. Synonyms: choice, option, pick. "You can take your pick"

An assortment of things from which a choice can be made.

The person or thing chosen or selected. Synonyms: choice, pick.

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. Synonyms: natural selection, survival, survival of the fittest.

A passage selected from a larger work. Synonyms: excerpt, excerption, extract.

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"Selection" Quotes from Famous Books

... insisted that he must needs be immediately in the saddle again. He scarcely stayed for a puff of an after-dinner cigar, and when he had bidden the ladies adieu both Bayne and Briscoe went with him to the stable, to assist in the selection of a horse suited to his needs. Little Archie ran after them, begging to be admitted to their company. Briscoe at once caught him up to his shoulder, and there he was perched, wisely overlooking the ...

— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock

... keep one's own bowels open, and not trouble about those of anybody else. Turkey rhubarb, in fact. The serenity of outlook thereby attained would enable a man to perceive the futility of interfering with the operation of natural selection. ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

... that," said Mr. Crayon, speaking for the first time, and using short, choppy sentences. "Monitor, as I happen to know, is extremely careful in the selection of its men, and this, I am journalist enough to understand, is most important errand upon which it can now send ...

— The Candidate - A Political Romance • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... inevitable month's notice; that, at the first hint of her leaving me, at least a dozen of my neighbours would stretch out eager hands to snatch Elizabeth, a dozen different vacant sinks were ready for her selection. I did not care, I say; I had loved my vases and in that ...

— Our Elizabeth - A Humour Novel • Florence A. Kilpatrick

... avowed that his opposition was founded upon political sentiments. He asked, why should not a bill be brought in for the restoration of titles against all acts of attainder passed under the present and preceding dynasties? Why make a selection of forfeitures incurred for treason, not against the crown, but against the liberties of the subject? Why, for instance, was not the Duke of Buccleugh restored to the dukedom of Monmouth? He confessed that the selection which had been made was most unfortunate; ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

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