selectorn.

Brit.

/sᵻˈlɛktə/, U.S.

/səˈlɛktər/

Etymology: < select v. + -or suffix.

One who or something which selects.

a. gen.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > selecting from a number or for a purpose > one who selects

culler1483

sorter1554

picker1778

selector1782

1782 V. Knox Ess. II. cv. [civ.] 93 Like all inventors and selectors of their own systems, they have been hurried to excess.

1797 (title) The Selector. Being a new..collection of Visions, Tales [etc.].

1809 Q. Rev. Nov. 285 Given from Dr. King's work, with sundry comments by the ingenious selector.

1867 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 67 Why should she [nature] become a selector of varieties?

1887 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 26 Feb. 48/2 Here both parties were selectors or importers of cigars, not manufacturers.

b. Australian. = free selector n.

ΚΠ

1875 Melbourne Spect. 12 June 70/2 A public meeting of non-resident selectors has been held at Rushworth.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxvii. 275 She was the daughter of one of the selectors at Blue Gum Flats.

c. As a name for various appliances in metallurgy, telegraphy, motor-car machinery, etc. spec. (a) in a gearbox, the part that moves the gearwheels into and out of engagement; (b) Telephony a mechanism which automatically establishes electrical connection with one of a group of available contacts according to the number of impulses in the incoming signal; (c) in a motor vehicle with automatic transmission, the control by which the driver selects the mode of operation of the transmission.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > other specific mechanisms

stop?1523

clockwork1652

sector1715

rackwork1755

scapement1789

scape1798

safety catch1827

controller1836

dog1840

Geneva stop1841

Maltese cross1852

throw-off1852

gearhead1869

tripper1870

Scotch yoke1880

Geneva movement1881

belt-tightener1882

watch1882

selector1890

Geneva wheel1891

throw-out1894

Geneva motion1897

horse-geara1899

Geneva mechanism1903

safety catch1904

Geneva drive1913

Geneva1919

Possum1961

1890 Nature 7 Aug. 357/1 A device [in a horsehair-cloth loom]..known as the selector..picks up one hair, and only one, to present to the jaws of the shuttle.

1903 Electr. Rev. (U.S.) XLIII. 583/1 Each subscriber is connected to the exchange by two lines which end in what is called a first selector switch... The first selector consists of a couple of relays.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 15/2 The selector or operating mechanism is placed in the bottom of the gear-box; so that all the gears can be removed without disturbing any part of it.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 14/2 A selector-gate change has been installed [in the motor-car].

1926 H. T. Rutter Mod. Motors II. vii. 262 By moving the gear lever by hand it actuates what are termed selector rods, which are forked rods that slide the gear wheels on the gear-shaft one at a time into a position to mesh with the respective gear wheels on the lay-shaft.

1930 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 9 22 By placing several selectors in series a network of central offices may be built up, each office serving 10,000 telephones.

1961 Listener 16 Nov. 832/1 I would have been waiting, like some predetermined selector, for the necessary keys to fall into position.

1967 K. H. Brinkmann tr. K. Trautmann Design of Automatic Telephone Exchanges 16 Each selector has a relay set which controls the switching functions... Ten final selectors would suffice to serve 100 subscribers since each switch interconnects two subscribers.

1967 Times 31 Mar. 3/7 The coroner said the selector lever must have been in ‘drive’.

1973 D. Barnes See the Woman (1974) i. 9 Conrad stopped, pushed the selector to park..and opened the car door.

1973 H. Fantel True Sound of Music (1974) vii. 105 To start with, any amplifier has a selector switch. As its name implies, it lets you pick the program source you want to hear: radio, record player, or tape.

1976 L. Thomas Dangerous Davies ii. 13 The record..swooped again onto the turntable at her touch of the selector button.

d. Sport. One of a number of officials appointed to select a team.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > scouting or selecting > [noun] > selector

selector1928

1928 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 14/1 The selectors could not find in England a team good enough to stop this very perfect Scottish machine.

1934 F. J. C. Gustard Eng. v. Austral. 9 His action may have saved the selectors a certain amount of embarrassment.

1953 B. Harris Cricket Triumph i. 19 Laker did not come into the side until the third test match, for in the selectors' minds he and Roy Tattersall..were of equal talent.

1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 138 I said somewhere in a newspaper article that 1974 summer that the selectors would have to be shot before I made a Test comeback. I think my assessment was right.

Derivatives

selecˈtorial adj. of or pertaining to a team selector (sense d above).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > scouting or selecting > [adjective] > selector

selectorial1959

1959 Times 12 Oct. 15/4 The manner of its achievement cannot but raise some doubts in selectorial minds.

1963 A. Ross Australia 63 13 Selectorial opinion, for one reason or another, was hardening against Sheppard.

1975 Cricketer May 37/1 Mr Holloway..seems to feel (as indeed I do) that selectorial bias in favour of the southern and more particularly Home counties is an inescapable fact.

Draft additions September 2004

slang (originally Jamaican). Also in forms selecta, selectah. [A parallel formation selecter is also occasionally attested in this sense.] Originally in reggae music: a person who assists a disc jockey by selecting the next record to be played; (hence) a dance music DJ.

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1980 ‘J. Strummer’ et al. Living in Fame (transcript of song) in wwwlyricsfreak.com (O.E.D. Archive) If you say you a selector You a fe have good selection.

1997 S. Barrow & P. Dalton Reggae i. 15/1 Coxsone had excellent taste in music, an attribute which enabled his selectors to trounce the opposition in sound clashes.

2001 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Jan. 72 Drum 'n' bass event with UK DJs SS and Randall plus MCs Warren G and Fats plus local selectors 1LC and Atom 1.

2003 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 41 p Reggae music was built by sound systems and selectas.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	selector
释义	selectorn. Brit. /sᵻˈlɛktə/, U.S. /səˈlɛktər/ Etymology: < select v. + -or suffix. One who or something which selects. a. gen. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [noun] > selecting from a number or for a purpose > one who selects culler1483 sorter1554 picker1778 selector1782 1782 V. Knox Ess. II. cv. [civ.] 93 Like all inventors and selectors of their own systems, they have been hurried to excess. 1797 (title) The Selector. Being a new..collection of Visions, Tales [etc.]. 1809 Q. Rev. Nov. 285 Given from Dr. King's work, with sundry comments by the ingenious selector. 1867 S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 67 Why should she [nature] become a selector of varieties? 1887 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 26 Feb. 48/2 Here both parties were selectors or importers of cigars, not manufacturers. b. Australian. = free selector n. ΚΠ 1875 Melbourne Spect. 12 June 70/2 A public meeting of non-resident selectors has been held at Rushworth. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right II. xxvii. 275 She was the daughter of one of the selectors at Blue Gum Flats. c. As a name for various appliances in metallurgy, telegraphy, motor-car machinery, etc. spec. (a) in a gearbox, the part that moves the gearwheels into and out of engagement; (b) Telephony a mechanism which automatically establishes electrical connection with one of a group of available contacts according to the number of impulses in the incoming signal; (c) in a motor vehicle with automatic transmission, the control by which the driver selects the mode of operation of the transmission. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > other specific mechanisms stop?1523 clockwork1652 sector1715 rackwork1755 scapement1789 scape1798 safety catch1827 controller1836 dog1840 Geneva stop1841 Maltese cross1852 throw-off1852 gearhead1869 tripper1870 Scotch yoke1880 Geneva movement1881 belt-tightener1882 watch1882 selector1890 Geneva wheel1891 throw-out1894 Geneva motion1897 horse-geara1899 Geneva mechanism1903 safety catch1904 Geneva drive1913 Geneva1919 Possum1961 1890 Nature 7 Aug. 357/1 A device [in a horsehair-cloth loom]..known as the selector..picks up one hair, and only one, to present to the jaws of the shuttle. 1903 Electr. Rev. (U.S.) XLIII. 583/1 Each subscriber is connected to the exchange by two lines which end in what is called a first selector switch... The first selector consists of a couple of relays. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 15/2 The selector or operating mechanism is placed in the bottom of the gear-box; so that all the gears can be removed without disturbing any part of it. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 16 Nov. 14/2 A selector-gate change has been installed [in the motor-car]. 1926 H. T. Rutter Mod. Motors II. vii. 262 By moving the gear lever by hand it actuates what are termed selector rods, which are forked rods that slide the gear wheels on the gear-shaft one at a time into a position to mesh with the respective gear wheels on the lay-shaft. 1930 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 9 22 By placing several selectors in series a network of central offices may be built up, each office serving 10,000 telephones. 1961 Listener 16 Nov. 832/1 I would have been waiting, like some predetermined selector, for the necessary keys to fall into position. 1967 K. H. Brinkmann tr. K. Trautmann Design of Automatic Telephone Exchanges 16 Each selector has a relay set which controls the switching functions... Ten final selectors would suffice to serve 100 subscribers since each switch interconnects two subscribers. 1967 Times 31 Mar. 3/7 The coroner said the selector lever must have been in ‘drive’. 1973 D. Barnes See the Woman (1974) i. 9 Conrad stopped, pushed the selector to park..and opened the car door. 1973 H. Fantel True Sound of Music (1974) vii. 105 To start with, any amplifier has a selector switch. As its name implies, it lets you pick the program source you want to hear: radio, record player, or tape. 1976 L. Thomas Dangerous Davies ii. 13 The record..swooped again onto the turntable at her touch of the selector button. d. Sport. One of a number of officials appointed to select a team. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > scouting or selecting > [noun] > selector selector1928 1928 Daily Mail 2 Apr. 14/1 The selectors could not find in England a team good enough to stop this very perfect Scottish machine. 1934 F. J. C. Gustard Eng. v. Austral. 9 His action may have saved the selectors a certain amount of embarrassment. 1953 B. Harris Cricket Triumph i. 19 Laker did not come into the side until the third test match, for in the selectors' minds he and Roy Tattersall..were of equal talent. 1976 J. Snow Cricket Rebel 138 I said somewhere in a newspaper article that 1974 summer that the selectors would have to be shot before I made a Test comeback. I think my assessment was right. Derivatives selecˈtorial adj. of or pertaining to a team selector (sense d above). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > scouting or selecting > [adjective] > selector selectorial1959 1959 Times 12 Oct. 15/4 The manner of its achievement cannot but raise some doubts in selectorial minds. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 13 Selectorial opinion, for one reason or another, was hardening against Sheppard. 1975 Cricketer May 37/1 Mr Holloway..seems to feel (as indeed I do) that selectorial bias in favour of the southern and more particularly Home counties is an inescapable fact. Draft additions September 2004 slang (originally Jamaican). Also in forms selecta, selectah. [A parallel formation selecter is also occasionally attested in this sense.] Originally in reggae music: a person who assists a disc jockey by selecting the next record to be played; (hence) a dance music DJ. ΚΠ 1980 ‘J. Strummer’ et al. Living in Fame (transcript of song) in wwwlyricsfreak.com (O.E.D. Archive) If you say you a selector You a fe have good selection. 1997 S. Barrow & P. Dalton Reggae i. 15/1 Coxsone had excellent taste in music, an attribute which enabled his selectors to trounce the opposition in sound clashes. 2001 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Jan. 72 Drum 'n' bass event with UK DJs SS and Randall plus MCs Warren G and Fats plus local selectors 1LC and Atom 1. 2003 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 41 p Reggae music was built by sound systems and selectas. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1782
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