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Oxford 5000 vocabulary |B1|ACADEMIC vocabularySPEAKING vocabularyWRITING vocabularyIELTS vocabularyse‧lec‧tion /səˈlekʃən, sɪˈlekʃən/ noun
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Advanced Persian Dictionaryمهندسی صنایع: فروش/خرید/تدارکات: انتخاب
نیروی انسانی: انتخاب - گزینه
الکترونیک: انتخاب، گزینش،
کامپیوتر: انتخاب، گزینش،
علوم مهندسی: انتخاب، دسته یا هیات انتخاب شده،
حقوق: گزینش، انتخاب،
روانشناسی: گزین، انتخاب، گزینش
کامپیوتر: انتخاب شده
زیست شناسی: انتخاب، بهگزینی، فراهم آوردن موجبات یا اجازه دادن به برخی از افراد برای تولید نسل آینده است. در یک جمعیت هم انتخاب مصنوعی به وسیله انسان و هم به انتخاب طبیعی صورت می گیرد
[TahlilGaran] Persian Dictionary ▲
Synonyms & Related Wordsselection[noun]Synonyms:- choice, choosing, option, pick, preference
- range, assortment, choice, collection, medley, variety
Antonyms: rejection
Related Words: choosing,
culling,
draft,
drafting,
picking,
acumen,
discernment,
discrimination,
insight
English Thesaurus: choice, first/second/third choice, somebody’s choice of, selection, selection of, ... [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
English Dictionaryse‧lec‧tion S3 W2 AC /səˈlekʃ
ən, sɪˈlekʃ
ən/
noun [
Word Family: noun:
selection,
selector,
selectivity;
verb:
select;
adverb:
selectively;
adjective:
selective]
1. [singular, uncountable] the careful choice of a particular person or thing from a group of similar people or things:
The judges have made their final selection.selection of the selection of a new leaderselection for He had narrowly missed selection for the team.selection as Perlman’s selection as the party’s candidate2. [countable] something that has been chosen from among a group of things
Synonym : choice:
To order, just write your selections on the form.selection from These drawings represent a selection from a larger exhibition.3. [countable usually singular] a group of things of a particular type, often of things that are for sale
Synonym : range:
There's a big selection to choose from.selection of a wide selection of shellfish They only have a limited selection of his books. ⇒
natural selection [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
Collocationsselection nounI. process of choosing/being chosen ADJ. careful | random | initial | final | jury, team | natural, sexual Natural selection is a key element of Darwin's theory of evolution. VERB + SELECTION make She took a long time to make her selection.
win She hopes to win selection for the Olympic 800 metres team. SELECTION + NOUN criteria, policy | procedure, process | board, committee, panel PREP. ~ as his selection as candidate for the Green Party
~ for [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
selection II. number of people/things that have been chosen ADJ. varied, wide | random We interviewed a random selection of teenagers.
representative | judicious, well-chosen | final The final selection of winners will be announced at the end of the event. PREP. ~ from, ~ of a selection of hits from well-known musicals [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
selection III. collection of goods in a shop, etc. that are for sale ADJ. comprehensive, extensive, huge, large, vast, wide | limited, small | excellent, fine, good, great, interesting, superb VERB + SELECTION offer The shop offers a wide selection of wines.
choose from PREP. ~ of [TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲
Thesauruschoice something or someone that has been chosen:
Maria was very pleased with her choice. ⇒
first/second/third choice (=the thing you wanted most, the thing you wanted most after that etc):
Greece was our first choice for a vacation, but all the flights were full. ⇒
somebody’s choice of:
I don’t like his choice of friends.selection a small group of the best things that have been chosen from a larger group:
selection of:
She showed me a selection of her drawings. a selection of songs from ‘West Side Story’ [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲
choice:
choice of:
The school seems OK, but there isn’t a great choice of courses. ⇒
have a choice (=be able to choose from several things):
With her high grades and athletic skill, Celeste had her choice of colleges. ⇒
have no choice but to do something (=to be forced to do something because there is nothing else you can choose):
Spooner says he had no choice but to file for bankruptcy. ⇒
wide choice (=a lot of things to choose from):
There is a wide choice of hotels and hostels in the town.option one of the things that you can choose to do in a particular situation:
He basically has two options: he can have the surgery, or he can give up playing football. ⇒
keep/leave your options open (=delay choosing so that you continue to have several things to choose from):
I haven’t signed any contracts yet – I want to keep my options open.alternative one of two or more ways of doing something:
Did you consider other alternatives before you moved in with Lucy? ⇒
alternative to:
There is no practical alternative to our current policy. ⇒
have no alternative (=to not have a choice):
He says he doesn’t want to see a doctor, but I’m afraid he has no alternative.selection a small group of the best things that have been chosen from a larger group:
selection of:
She showed me a selection of her drawings. a selection of songs from ‘West Side Story’ [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲