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selection
1. the act of choosing or selecting (Freq. 13) - your choice of colors was unfortunate - you can take your pick • Syn: choice, option, pick • Derivationally related forms: pick (for: pick), opt (for: option), select • Hypernyms: action • Hyponyms: casting, coloration, colouration, sampling, decision, determination, conclusion, volition, willing, election, vote, ballot, voting, balloting 2. an assortment of things from which a choice can be made (Freq. 2) - the store carried a large selection of shoes • Hypernyms: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley 3. the person or thing chosen or selected (Freq. 1) - he was my pick for mayor • Syn: choice, pick • Derivationally related forms: pick (for: pick) • Hypernyms: decision making, deciding • Hyponyms: pleasure, favorite, favourite, way 4. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment • Syn: survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection • Hypernyms: natural process, natural action, action, activity 5. a passage selected from a larger work - he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings • Syn: excerpt, excerption, extract • Derivationally related forms: extract (for: extract), excerpt (for: excerpt) • Hypernyms: passage • Hyponyms: chrestomathy, analects, analecta, clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting, cut, track, quotation, quote, citation • Instance Hyponyms: Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah
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