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# selection

«selection» in Mova's school dictionary: **choosing someone or something from a group** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a selection, selections; uncountable selection)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Selection is choosing someone or something from a group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#m1)

2) A selection is a set of things chosen, or a range of things to choose from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#m2)

3) (science) Natural selection is how living things that suit their surroundings survive and have young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: a selection of cakes, team selection, selection boxes of sweets at Christmas. In science: natural selection. In computing, a selection is the highlighted part. Phrases: «a wide selection», «a selection of», «team selection», «natural selection».

### examples

- The bakery has a wide selection of bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x1)
- Team selection is on Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x2)
- I got a selection box of chocolates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x3)
- Natural selection helps animals adapt over many generations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x4)
- Make a selection from the menu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x5)
- There are 4 cakes and 3 drinks; how many different selections of one cake and one drink? (12) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x6)
- In making my selection I have chiefly tried to make the stories characteristic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/#x7)

### note

Noun of «select». In maths, counting selections: one from each group = multiply the numbers (4 × 3 = 12).

### In the corpora

- [Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the same idea of natural selection at the same time as Darwin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/278-evolution-why-giraffes-really-have-long-necks/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «selection» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selection/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.