selector
selector Lexical Profile
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A person who chooses or picks out someone or something, especially a member of a committee responsible for choosing players for a sports team.
"The national team selectors met on Monday to finalize the squad for the upcoming tournament."
A mechanical, electrical, or electronic switch or control device used to choose a particular setting, gear, channel, or mode of operation.
"She turned the input selector on the amplifier to switch from the turntable to the radio."
In computing and web development, a pattern or expression (such as in CSS) used to identify and target specific elements within a document or data structure.
"Using a class selector in the stylesheet allows you to apply the same font formatting to multiple paragraphs at once."
In Jamaican reggae, dancehall, and sound-system culture, a disc jockey who chooses and plays recorded music for an audience.
"The crowd cheered as the selector dropped a classic roots reggae track on the turntable."
Australian In Australian history, a settler who acquired and farmed a tract of Crown land under government-sponsored Free Selection Acts in the 19th century.
"Life for a nineteenth-century selector in the Australian bush was marked by hard labor and unpredictable droughts."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in the mid-18th century from the verb 'select' and the agentive suffix '-or', ultimately deriving from the Latin verb 'seligere' (meaning 'to choose out'), a combination of 'se-' ('apart') and 'legere' ('to gather or choose').