"select" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

select verbo

select + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 83
select candidates • select players • select members • select one's entry • select a site • ...
verbo + select
Kolokacji: 9
used to select • allow to select • help select • begin selecting • involve selecting • ...
select + preposición
Kolokacji: 41
selected by • selected from • selected for • selected among • selected through • ...
select + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 51
randomly selected • carefully selected • personally selected • originally selected • later selected • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(1) randomly, arbitrarily
Kolokacji: 2
(4) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(5) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(6) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(7) specifically, generally
Kolokacji: 2
(8) deliberately, intentionally
Kolokacji: 2
(10) well, preferentially
Kolokacji: 2
(11) regularly, invariably
Kolokacji: 2
1. regularly selected = regularnie wybrać regularly selected
2. invariably select = niezmiennie wybrany invariably select
  • But once there, they were never offered to the Free French until Buckmaster had had first refusal of them, and his head-hunters invariably selected the most promising.
  • When permitted to choose between the short-tails and the long-tails, the females invariably selected the more amply endowed males.
  • The result is always great confusion: the astrologers invariably select a mixed bag of criminals and peaceful citizens in about the same proportions that a machine would by picking randomly.
  • Whenever I do this, I invariably select a tourist who's more lost than I am, and who speaks no English.
  • Chavez invariably selected as large a bowl of fresh fruits as he could get away with, heavily laced with white sugar for energy, along with the usual Army coffee whose caffeine content always seemed augmented to give you that extra wake-up punch.
  • Tome was very much a creature of intellect; he invariably selected the MENTAL column when he had the numbered facet of the Grid, and MACHINE when he had the lettered facet.
  • Jak, who began by making rough drafts of half a dozen cartoons based on the day's top news stories, complained that his editors invariably selected the one involving the most work, a scene with a brick wall, perhaps, requiring him to draw it brick by brick.
  • We'd never want to live in that part of a town or village that is selected as a site for subsidized housing, but we invariably select it as the ideal spot to build multiple housing.
  • Most of the defeated judges go back to their law practices or await an interim appointment by the Governor, who invariably selects Democrats.
  • The Outlaw invariably selects this moment to remove paint.
(12) quickly, overall
Kolokacji: 2
(13) independently, freely
Kolokacji: 2
(14) appropriately, properly
Kolokacji: 2

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