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(v)
To pick; to make the choice of; to select.
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(n)
An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
(adj)
First in importance, degree, or rank.
(uncountable) Level of excellence.
Higher in rank, status, or quality.
Senses referring to subjective quality.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To select.
An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
Alternative form of blue ribbon. [(idiomatic) Highly superior in quality, style, substance, prestige, etc.]
(transitive) To choose or make a decision (to do something).
Chosen; selected.
picked; selected
The process or act of selecting.
(of a person) Choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.
One of a set of choices that can be made.
One who chooses something.
The act of making a choice.
(intransitive) To choose; select.
Decided; resolute, possessing much determination; dogged.
(ambitransitive) To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle.
Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
Explicit or definite.
Distinguished by a unique, particular, or unusual quality.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
(transitive) To state explicitly, or in detail, or as a condition.
(adv)
In an active manner.
An act of identification.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
A small dot or mark.
To utilize or employ.
Specific; discrete; concrete.
Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
Of a measurement: approximately, roughly.
(transitive, sometimes with 'of') To point out; to discover; to direct to a knowledge of; to show; to make known.
(transitive) To establish the identity of someone or something.
To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
(literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
Having special privileges.
To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
(ergative) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
(intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
(transitive) To name (someone to a post or role).
(transitive) To put a device, mechanism (alarm etc.) or system into action or motion; to trigger, to actuate, to set off, to enable.
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(transitive) To create.
A thing that holds.
Ordering.
To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.
Needing urgent attention.
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
(transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it.
Used or intended for a particular purpose
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
One who is elected.
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller or less by some amount.
Limited within bounds.
To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
(transitive) To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing.
A word, symbol, or phrase used to identify a particular company's product and differentiate it from other companies' products.
Primarily physical senses.
(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
Not large or big; insignificant; few in number.
(transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.
(transitive) To make prominent; emphasize.
To make a non-linear physical movement.
(heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
An instance of applying pressure; an instance of pressing.
To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
The sound or action of a click.
A diminutive of the female given name Selena.
The action of the verb to point.
Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
A mark or scar made by burning with a hot iron, especially to mark cattle or to classify the contents of a cask.
To cut meat in order to serve it.
The showing of a film, typically by projecting it on a screen.
(rare) To shift gears.
A person who plays any kind of game.
(law) A thing; personal property.
(firearms) A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.
A shift to a higher level, such as of frequency, growth, economic level, etc.
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
(astronomy) A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.
(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
A conical peg or pin used to close and open the hole or vent in a container.
A movement to do something, a beginning.
(transitive) To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
(transitive) To examine (something) carefully.
An inspection or examination.
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
An act whereby one checks something or someone (in any sense).
(of a beverage) Containing alcohol or drugs, often without the knowledge of those who partake.
An instance of targeting.
The act of making a choice; selection.
A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.