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What (who) is selective - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Selective (disambiguation)
Selective
·adj Selecting; tending to select.
selective
¦ adjective
1. relating to or involving selection.
tending to choose carefully.
2. (of a process or agent) affecting some things and not others.
Derivatives
selectively adverb
selectiveness noun
selectivity noun
selective
1.
A selective process applies only to a few things or people.
Selective breeding may result in a greyhound running faster and seeing better than a wolf.
ADJ: ADJ n
• selectively
Within the project, trees are selectively cut on a 25-year rotation.
ADV: usu ADV with v
• selectivity
The soldiers specialized in going out in small groups, to kill with a very high degree of selectivity.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
2.
When someone is selective, they choose things carefully, for example the things that they buy or do.
Sales still happen, but buyers are more selective...
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ
• selectively
...people on small incomes who wanted to shop selectively.
ADV: ADV with v
3.
If you say that someone has a selective memory, you disapprove of the fact that they remember certain facts about something and deliberately forget others, often because it is convenient for them to do so.
We seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past...
ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]
• selectively
...a tendency to selectively forget all the adverse effects of the drug.
ADV: ADV with v
Wikipedia
Selective
Selective may refer to:
- Selective school, a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria
- Selective school (New South Wales)
Selective strength: the human body transitions between being weak and strong. This ranges depending on the initial strength of the person. On some days for example you may be able to lift a heavy weight or open a difficult jar/bottle but in another day you won’t be able to do these things.
Examples of use of selective
1. It‘s a way of allowing selective education within a state–funded education system that isn‘t meant to be selective.
2. Therefore even selective debt cancellation is welcome.
3. But this figure rises to 46 per cent in partially selective areas and 4'.8 per cent in wholly selective areas where all pupils take the 11–plus.
4. Elsewhere too, selective schools far out–performed the comprehensives.
5. But it relies on a selective reading of his record.