Selective: alternatives and connections

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; t…

To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisone…

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future even…

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select d…

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of th…

To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two…

a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon

a user interface in which you type commands instead of choosing them from a menu or selecting an icon

To represent by selecting the important features and those which are expressible in the medium employed, and omitting the others.

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny.

To select; to borrow.

A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any com…

To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select.

The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

To select by the drawing of lots.

Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosop…

To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for public…