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selection
Overview of noun selection
The noun selection has 5 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (13) choice, selection, option, pick -- (the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick")
2. (2) selection -- (an assortment of things from which a choice can be made; "the store carried a large selection of shoes")
3. (1) choice, pick, selection -- (the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor")
4. survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection -- (a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment)
5. excerpt, excerption, extract, selection -- (a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun selection
5 senses of selection
Sense 1
choice, selection, option, pick
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
selection
=> assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley
=> collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
=> group, grouping
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
choice, pick, selection
=> decision making, deciding
=> higher cognitive process
=> process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 5
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
=> passage
=> section, subdivision
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> written communication, written language
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> music
=> auditory communication
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun selection
3 of 5 senses of selection
Sense 1
choice, selection, option, pick
=> casting
=> coloration, colouration
=> sampling
=> decision, determination, conclusion
=> volition, willing
=> election
=> vote, ballot, voting, balloting
Sense 3
choice, pick, selection
=> pleasure
=> favorite, favourite
=> way
Sense 5
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
=> chrestomathy
HAS INSTANCE=> Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah
=> analects, analecta
=> clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press cutting
=> cut, track
=> quotation, quote, citation
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun selection
5 senses of selection
Sense 1
choice, selection, option, pick
=> action
Sense 2
selection
=> assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley
Sense 3
choice, pick, selection
=> decision making, deciding
Sense 4
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
Sense 5
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
=> passage
Antonyms of noun selection
Member Holonyms of noun selection
Substance Holonyms of noun selection
Part Holonyms of noun selection
Member Meronyms of noun selection
Substance Meronyms of noun selection
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Meronyms of noun selection
Holonyms of noun selection
Attributes of noun selection
Derived Forms of noun selection
1 of 5 senses of selection
Sense 1
choice, selection, option, pick
RELATED TO>(verb) select#1
=> choose, take, select, pick out
Domain of noun selection
Domain Terms of noun selection
Familiarity of noun selection
selection used as a noun is common (polysemy count =5)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun selection
5 senses of selection
Sense 1
choice, selection, option, pick
> action
=> thing
=> kindness, benignity
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> alienation
=> res gestae
=> course, course of action
=> interaction
=> fetch
=> playing
=> play, swordplay
=> arrival
=> performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action
=> choice, selection, option, pick
=> change
=> economy, saving
=> prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance
=> resistance, opposition
=> bruxism
=> transfusion
=> pickings, taking
=> transgression
=> aggression, hostility
=> destabilization, destabilisation
=> employment, engagement
=> reference, consultation
=> emphasizing, accenting, accentuation
=> beatification
=> jumpstart, jump-start
=> stupefaction
=> vampirism
Sense 2
selection
> assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley
=> grab bag
=> witches' brew, witches' broth, witch's brew
=> range
=> selection
=> odds and ends, oddments, melange, farrago, ragbag, mishmash, mingle-mangle, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, gallimaufry, omnium-gatherum
=> alphabet soup
=> sampler
Sense 3
choice, pick, selection
> decision making, deciding
=> umpirage, officiation, officiating, refereeing
=> eclecticism, eclectic method
=> groupthink
=> settlement, resolution, closure
=> judgment, judgement, judging
=> reversal, change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround
=> choice, pick, selection
=> cull, reject
=> option, alternative, choice
Sense 4
survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> radiation
=> absorption
=> acidification
=> adiabatic process
=> aeration
=> antiredeposition
=> capture
=> capture
=> centrifugation
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> chromatography
=> concretion
=> condensation
=> convection
=> curdling, clotting, coagulation
=> decay
=> demagnetization, demagnetisation
=> desorption
=> diffusion
=> dissolution, disintegration
=> distillation, distillment
=> drift
=> effervescence
=> electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis
=> establishment, ecesis
=> extinction
=> extraction
=> feedback
=> filtration
=> flocculation
=> flow
=> formation
=> fossilization, fossilisation
=> geological process, geologic process
=> hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing
=> inactivation
=> ion exchange
=> ionization, ionisation
=> leach, leaching
=> magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction
=> materialization, materialisation
=> nuclear reaction
=> opacification
=> oscillation
=> oxygenation
=> pair production, pair creation, pair formation
=> phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change
=> precession of the equinoxes
=> release
=> saltation
=> scattering
=> sericulture
=> sink
=> soak, soakage, soaking
=> softening
=> sorption
=> source
=> stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification
=> stimulation
=> succession, ecological succession
=> survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> synergy, synergism
=> temperature change
=> transduction
=> transpiration
=> vitrification
Sense 5
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
> passage
=> excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
=> locus classicus
=> place
=> purple passage
=> transition
=> text
Meronyms of noun selection
5 senses of selection
Sense 5
excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
=> passage
=> section, subdivision
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
HAS PART: epilogue, epilog
=> written communication, written language
HAS PART: leaf, folio
Holonyms of noun selection
Grep of noun selection
natural selection
selection
Grep of adv selection
by selection
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