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# selector

«selector» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who chooses players for a team** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a selector, selectors)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who chooses players for a team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#m1)

2) A device, knob or switch for choosing a setting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#m2)

3) (computing) A tool or rule that picks out items. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In sport, selectors choose the national cricket or rugby team. In everyday life, a «gear selector» or «channel selector». In coding at school, a selector picks out parts of a web page. Phrases: «team selectors», «gear selector».

### examples

- The selectors picked her for the county team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#x1)
- Turn the selector to «wash». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#x2)
- The cricket selectors announced the squad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#x3)
- Dad moved the gear selector to reverse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#x4)
- The selector chose the fastest runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#x5)
- Use the colour selector to pick blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selector/#x6)

### note

Countable. From «select». Spelling ends «-or», not «-er».

### Trees and pragmatics

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