| 单词 | to select out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto select out a. transitive. To choose or pick out in preference to another or others. Also to select out. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose markOE to choose out1297 out-trya1325 cullc1330 welec1330 try1340 walea1350 coil1399 drawa1400 to mark outa1450 electa1513 sorta1535 prick1536 exempta1538 select1567 sort1597 to gather out1611 single1629 delibate1660 to cut out1667 outlooka1687 draught1714 draft1724 to tell off1727 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 25 To select or choose forth amongst many things what is heade and principall. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. xci. sig. Dd4v Haue you then selected mee To be the man, which you would haue displac'd Out of the role of immortalitie? 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 141 Of some [reeds] the Arabians make darts and jauelins..; others they select to write with. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. vii. 81 A certaine number..must I select from all: The rest shall beare the businesse in some other fight. View more context for this quotation 1706 A. Pope Let. 10 Apr. in Corr. (1956) I. 15 You desire me to select..some Things from the first Volume of your Miscellanies, which may be alter'd so as to appear again. 1754 W. Warburton View Bolingbroke's Philos.: Lett. 1st & 2nd ii. 135 Men..were not always sufficiently careful in selecting their arguments. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 239 A power of selecting and adapting means to proximate ends according to circumstances. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xiv. 122 The party was admirably selected. 1839 Earl Spencer in Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. (1840) 1 22 The importance of selecting good male animals [for breeding purposes]. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 657 In selecting rebels for punishment. 1867 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 3 ii. 464 He then soon begins to select out fine days for this purpose. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 25 Would a forger have had the wit to select the most..characteristic thoughts of Plato? < as lemmas |
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