Noun: selector
| Singular | selector |
| Plural | selectors |
Sample Sentences
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There is one selection for hot chocolate. All selectors are the push button type. [1949, Billboard, volume 61, number 34, page 97:]
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The ID selector targets just one element per page, making it much more specific than a class selector that might target many. [2007, Craig Cook, David Schultz, Beginning HTML with CSS and XHTML, Apress, →ISBN, page 28:]
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The selector indicates the query expression to run over the DOM; the context indicates the portion of the DOM from which to run the query. [2009, Dino Esposito, Microsoft ASP.NET and AJAX, Microsoft Press, →ISBN, page 140:]
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Phar Lap executables […] provide a protected-mode selector, 34h, that maps to the first megabyte of physical memory. [1990, Byte, volume 15, numbers 11-13, page 256:]
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You will only have to be concerned with DPMI, selectors, and such, if you use Borland C++ in DOS. [1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set, page 235:]
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Gopher selector strings are more liberal in makeup than URLs and may contain any characters other than a tab, return, or linefeed. [1996, Kenneth H. Rosen, UNIX System V, Release 4: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, page 438]
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That's my sector, homosexual dissector / Come again, rewind selector [2009, “Medicine Ball”, in Relapse, performed by Eminem:]
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This sonic body has to decide which music track to play at any particular moment. But when the selector is alone in front of the crowd, how do they know which track to play next? [2011, Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 125:]
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Each selector in turn chose the particular allotment he wanted for his client, and so on till this important work was over. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 78:]
Nouns inflected like selector
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *s(w)éder.
3. Latin sē-
4. Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
6. Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti
7. Proto-Italic *legō
8. Latin legō
9. Latin sēlegō
10. Latin sēlēctuslbor.
11. English select
12. English -or
13. English selector
14. From select + -or.
Verbs referencing "selector"
Finnish Nouns
selektori, Polish Nouns
selektor.