Selective
adjective
Choosing carefully or with authority.
He is very selective about the books he reads.
Often appears as...
- selective process
- selective approach
adjective
Used to describe something organized so that only a few people or things are chosen.
She goes to a selective school that only accepts high-performing students.
Often appears as...
- selective education system
- selective high school
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Academic
adjective
Functioning automatically to exclude or inhibit certain behaviors or responses.
Selective attention is the psychological process of focusing on a particular object in the environment.
Often appears as...
- selective attention
- selective perception
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Academic
adjective
Allowing or relating to the separation of a specific substance from a mixture.
Selective absorption allows certain molecules to be absorbed and others to be ignored.
Often appears as...
- selective absorption
- selective reaction
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Technical
adjective
Choosing carefully or with authority.
He is very selective about the books he reads.
Often appears as...
- selective process
- selective approach
adjective
Used to describe something organized so that only a few people or things are chosen.
She goes to a selective school that only accepts high-performing students.
Often appears as...
- selective education system
- selective high school
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Functioning automatically to exclude or inhibit certain behaviors or responses.
Selective attention is the psychological process of focusing on a particular object in the environment.
Often appears as...
- selective attention
- selective perception
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Allowing or relating to the separation of a specific substance from a mixture.
Selective absorption allows certain molecules to be absorbed and others to be ignored.
Often appears as...
- selective absorption
- selective reaction
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Nuanced Choices
Use 'selective' to show thoughtful decision-making, emphasizing quality over quantity.
She's selective with her projects, ensuring each aligns with her values.
Pro Tip 2/3Authority Implication
'Selective' implies control or authority over choices, suggesting expertise or high standards.
As a curator, his selective taste is reflected in the gallery's exhibits.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
'Selective' often carries a positive connotation, admiring the person's ability to choose well.
Her selective sense of fashion earned her widespread admiration.
Pro Tip 1/3Nuanced Choices
Use 'selective' to show thoughtful decision-making, emphasizing quality over quantity.
She's selective with her projects, ensuring each aligns with her values.
Pro Tip 2/3Authority Implication
'Selective' implies control or authority over choices, suggesting expertise or high standards.
As a curator, his selective taste is reflected in the gallery's exhibits.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
'Selective' often carries a positive connotation, admiring the person's ability to choose well.
Her selective sense of fashion earned her widespread admiration.
Pro Tip 1/3Nuanced Choices
Use 'selective' to show thoughtful decision-making, emphasizing quality over quantity.
She's selective with her projects, ensuring each aligns with her values.
Pro Tip 2/3Authority Implication
'Selective' implies control or authority over choices, suggesting expertise or high standards.
As a curator, his selective taste is reflected in the gallery's exhibits.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Connotation
'Selective' often carries a positive connotation, admiring the person's ability to choose well.
Her selective sense of fashion earned her widespread admiration.
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Can wildlife adapt to...
but historically, the recessive pale gray variant triumphed because of its selective advantage in helping these predators blend in. However, less snow cover reduces opportunities for camouflage, so lately, this gray color variant has been losing the battle against natural selection.
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Using poetry as a way to...
music and my tone if they listened hard enough I too could teach the ear drums hard to dance in the second grade my drama teacher a megaphone loud woman named Mike Wyatt like archaeologists dug deep and diagnosed me with selective mutism proved that my fear of talking was
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The dark history of IQ...
could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding. There were many problems with this line of thinking, among them the idea that intelligence was not only fixed and inherited, but also linked to a person’s race. Under the influence of eugenics,
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Urbanization and the...
of selective breeding and early agricultural techniques. For the first time, people could raise food rather than search for it, and this led to the development of semi-permanent villages for the first time in history. "Why only semi-permanent?" you might ask.
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How a long-forgotten...
And your hand, just like so much of our body, is a hotbed of bacterial activity, making it an ideal hunting ground for phages. Because after all, phages hunt bacteria. It's also important to know that phages are extremely selective hunters.
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How the coronavirus...
that they have achieved the most in some ways the most impressive results in in the world without a national lockdown without shelter in place without quarantines they have occasionally selectively done it for a specific you
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Meet the Super Cow PIPE...
selective breeding selective breeding is the first stop on our tour of how man is using science to control nature it's used by farmers to enhance desirable characteristics in their animals in fact
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How the blockchain will...
This allows us to create a user-controlled portable identity. More than a profile, it means you can selectively reveal the different attributes about you that help facilitate trade or interaction,
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Super Cow Creators PIPE PIPE...
the first stop on our tour of how man is using science to control nature it's used by farmers to enhance desirable characteristics in their animals in fact selective breeding is all about managing
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How Do Goldfish Flirt? PIPE...
extraordinary abilities they appeared in China over a thousand years ago having been selectively bred from wild silver car
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Can wildlife adapt to...
but historically, the recessive pale gray variant triumphed because of its selective advantage in helping these predators blend in. However, less snow cover reduces opportunities for camouflage, so lately, this gray color variant has been losing the battle against natural selection.
Video examples
Using poetry as a way to...
music and my tone if they listened hard enough I too could teach the ear drums hard to dance in the second grade my drama teacher a megaphone loud woman named Mike Wyatt like archaeologists dug deep and diagnosed me with selective mutism proved that my fear of talking was
Video examples
The dark history of IQ...
could and should be controlled in humans through selective breeding. There were many problems with this line of thinking, among them the idea that intelligence was not only fixed and inherited, but also linked to a person’s race. Under the influence of eugenics,
Video examples
Urbanization and the...
of selective breeding and early agricultural techniques. For the first time, people could raise food rather than search for it, and this led to the development of semi-permanent villages for the first time in history. "Why only semi-permanent?" you might ask.
Video examples
How a long-forgotten...
And your hand, just like so much of our body, is a hotbed of bacterial activity, making it an ideal hunting ground for phages. Because after all, phages hunt bacteria. It's also important to know that phages are extremely selective hunters.
Video examples
How the coronavirus...
that they have achieved the most in some ways the most impressive results in in the world without a national lockdown without shelter in place without quarantines they have occasionally selectively done it for a specific you
Video examples
Meet the Super Cow PIPE...
selective breeding selective breeding is the first stop on our tour of how man is using science to control nature it's used by farmers to enhance desirable characteristics in their animals in fact
Video examples
How the blockchain will...
This allows us to create a user-controlled portable identity. More than a profile, it means you can selectively reveal the different attributes about you that help facilitate trade or interaction,
Video examples
Super Cow Creators PIPE PIPE...
the first stop on our tour of how man is using science to control nature it's used by farmers to enhance desirable characteristics in their animals in fact selective breeding is all about managing
Video examples
How Do Goldfish Flirt? PIPE...
extraordinary abilities they appeared in China over a thousand years ago having been selectively bred from wild silver car
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John Kennedy
American Lawyer
My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.
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Jemele Hill
American Journalist
Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.
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Greg Olsen
American Football Player
Typically in training camp, especially as I've gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.
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Haris Pasovic
Bosniak Director
In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.
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Kirk Cameron
American Actor
I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Jonathan Groff
American Actor
I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.
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Charlie Kirk
American Activist
When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.
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Rubina Dilaik
Indian Actress
I have always been selective about people who enter my life.
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.
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John Kennedy
American Lawyer
My mind doesn't work, my memories don't work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can't tell you it's always the truth.
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Jemele Hill
American Journalist
Perspective should never influence punishment. Too often in our society, we practice selective perspective. We're willing to see all the angles only when it suits us. When perspective becomes inconvenient, we can be unflinching, even cruel.
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Greg Olsen
American Football Player
Typically in training camp, especially as I've gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.
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Haris Pasovic
Bosniak Director
In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.
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Kirk Cameron
American Actor
I've been fortunate that I can be selective enough to do acting when it's really furthering what I want to do with my life.
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Wole Soyinka
Nigerian Dramatist
Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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Jonathan Groff
American Actor
I'm very selective about television because you sign away so much of your life to it.
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Charlie Kirk
American Activist
When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie.
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Rubina Dilaik
Indian Actress
I have always been selective about people who enter my life.
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George C. Wolfe
American Playwright
AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath.
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