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elective
English
Etymology
elect +? -ive
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l?kt?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
elective (comparative more elective, superlative most elective)
- Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.
- Synonym: electoral
- Antonyms: appointive, hereditary
- 1697, John Dryden, The Works of Virgil […] translated into English Verse, London: Jacob Tonson, dedicatory preface to the Marquess of Normanby,[2]
- For his Conscience could not but whisper to the Arbitrary Monarch, that the Kings of Rome were at first Elective, and Govern’d not without a Senate:
- 1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error” in Poems, London: J. Johnson, p. 43,[3]
- Man thus endued with an elective voice,
- Must be supplied with objects of his choice.
- 1854, George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the American Continent, Boston: Little, Brown, Volume 6, Chapter 35, p. 185,[4]
- […] they rested their hopes of redress on the independent use of their elective franchise;
- 1860, Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, “Proto-Leaf,” p. 21,[5]
- See the populace, millions upon millions, handsome, tall, muscular, both sexes, clothed in easy and dignified clothes?teaching, commanding, marrying, generating, equally electing and elective;
- 1896, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “The South African Question” in Speeches and Writings of M. K. Gandhi, Madras: G.A. Natesan, 3rd edition, 1922, p. 6,[6]
- [The bill] says that no natives of countries (not of European origin) which have not hitherto possessed elective representative institutions […] shall be placed on the voters roll […]
- Open to choice; freely chosen.
- Synonyms: discretionary, optional, voluntary
- Antonyms: compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, required, involuntary
- 1654, Thomas Hobbes, Of Libertie and Necessitie, London: F. Eaglesfield, pp. 12-13,[7]
- […] his Lordship is deceived if he think any spontaneous action after once being checked in it, differs from an action voluntary and elective, for even the setting of a mans foot, in the posture for walking, and the action of ordinary eating was once deliberated of how and when it should be done, and though afterward it became easie & habitual so as to be done without fore-thought, yet that does not hinder but that the act is voluntary and proceedeth from election.
- 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son, and T. Cadell, Volume 5, Book 9, Chapter 8, pp. 160-161,[8]
- “You know not then,” said Cecilia, in a faint voice, “my inability to comply?”
- “Your ability, or inability, I presume are elective?”
- “Oh no!—my power is lost!—my fortune itself is gone!”
- 2001, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Toronto: Viking, p. 23,[9]
- [Her friends] are, after all, her elective siblings who have distanced themselves from the ways of the past, their families […]
- 2013, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah, New York: Knopf, Chapter 38, p. 346,[10]
- “ […] That blog is a game that you don’t really take seriously, it’s like choosing an interesting elective evening class to complete your credits.”
- 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, New York: Vintage, p. 130,
- Now some adventuring imbecile had acquired an elective sickness and was paying its price.
Related terms
- elect
- election
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
elective (plural electives)
- Something that is an option or may be freely chosen, especially a course of study.
Translations
Anagrams
- cleveite
References
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- what electives should i take in middle school
selection
English
Etymology
From Latin s?l?cti? (“the act of choosing out, selection”), from s?l?ctus, perfect passive participle of s?lig? (“choose out, select”), from s?- (“apart”) + leg? (“gather, select”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??l?k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
selection (countable and uncountable, plural selections)
- The process or act of selecting.
- The large number of good candidates made selection difficult.
- Something selected.
- My final selection was a 1934 Chateau Lafitte.
- A variety of items taken from a larger collection.
- I've brought a selection of fine cheeses to go with your wine.
- A musical piece.
- For my next selection, I'll play Happy Birthday in F-sharp minor.
- (databases) A set of data obtained from a database using a query.
- (linguistics) The ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments. Wp
- (programming) A list of items on which user operations will take place. Wp
- (algebra) A unary operation that denotes a subset of a relation.
- (historical) The free selection before survey of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s. Wp
- (biology) The stage of a genetic algorithm in which individual genomes are chosen from a population for later breeding. Wp
- (biology) Ellipsis of natural selection
Synonyms
- choice
- (musical piece): number
- (something selected): option
- (musical piece): piece
- (variety from larger collection): subset
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- selection in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- selection in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- elections, selenotic, telesonic
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- what selection character are you
- what selection caste am i
- what selection mean
- what selection character are you buzzfeed
- what selection methods are most valid
- what selection all about
- what selection boxes are gluten free
- what selection sort
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