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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

... Geoffrey. And the two pairs of lovers, Mr. CYRIL RAYMOND and Miss MAUD BELL above stairs, and Mr. REGINALD BACH and Miss DORIS LYTTON below (they were really all of them on the ground floor, the butler's room being the common trysting-place), served as delightful examples of natural selection—both on their own part and that of the management—and were as fresh and healthy as ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various

... The President's selection of Mr. Harvey for the London post is, of course, accounted for in other ways. There are some persons who profess to believe that Mr. Harding preferred to have the militant editor in London and his "Weekly" in the grave rather than to have him as a censor of Washington activities under ...

— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous

... only to his final approval, the General Commanding gives you an entirely free hand in the selection of ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 • Ian Hamilton

... strength, but before national service had been generally thought of an organization called the Women's Service Bureau had been formed by a group of influential and intelligent women who were imbued with the idea that only by careful and systematized registration and selection could the matter of feminine war work ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... almost every blossom in the world is everything it is because of its necessity to attract insect friends or to repel its foes - its form, mechanism, color, markings, odor, time of opening and closing, and its season of blooming being the result of natural selection by that special insect upon which each depends more or less absolutely for help in perpetuating its species - it seems fully time that the vitally important and interesting relationship existing between our common wild flowers and their winged benefactors should be presented ...

— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

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