Meaning & use
selecting
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Carefully choosing someone or something from a group of possible options.
See it in a sentence
She spent an hour selecting the right paint color for the nursery.
The software lets users highlight text by clicking and selecting it with the cursor.
A note on using this word
The present participle of select, frequently used in computing to describe highlighting or marking items for an action.
Words with a similar meaning
choosingpicking
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Words with an opposite meaning
rejecting
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