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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : si-lek-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : sɪˈlɛk tɪv |
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Définition of selective
Origin :- 1620s; see select (adj.) + -ive. Related: Selectively; selectiveness. Selective service is from 1917, American English.
- adj discriminating
- It has its proof in the past history of the selective power of love.
- Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
- His mind was a selective soil, in which only good seed could germinate.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- The machinery for the selective draft had merely been started.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) » by Various
- The material as well as the workers needed this selective power.
- Extract from : « Victorian Worthies » by George Henry Blore
- The selective effect of them is in the resistance to the fashions or subjection to them.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- In that matter of education, her selective abilities had been indeed good.
- Extract from : « Sally of Missouri » by R. E. Young
- And this selective desire is none other than the universal Law of Attraction.
- Extract from : « The Hidden Power » by Thomas Troward
- We must replace Nature's selective death-rate by a selective birth-rate.
- Extract from : « Parenthood and Race Culture » by Caleb Williams Saleeby
- Factors: (a) selective planting, (b) cross-pollination, (c) hybridizing.
- Extract from : « A Civic Biology » by George William Hunter
- What the selective absorption of the atmosphere of Venus may be, we do not know.
- Extract from : « Astronomy » by David Todd
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