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seleccionar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • cull verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
  • select verb To choose one or more items from a group of options.
  • triage noun The process of sorting people or things by urgency or importance to decide what gets attention first.

Senses

seleccionar is used for these senses in English:

  • cull To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group).
  • select To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.
  • single out (transitive, idiomatic) To select (someone or something) from a group and highlight them or treat them differently.
  • triage (chiefly, medical) To subject to triage; to prioritize.

cull — full definition

  1. verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
  2. verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
  3. noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.

select — full definition

  1. verb To choose one or more items from a group of options.
  2. adj Chosen for being of especially high quality, or restricted to a small, privileged group.

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