select

adjective2

1. •
   Privileged, specially selected.

   • Only a select few were allowed into the premiere.
   • The child was upset when he was cut from select soccer and had to play on his school team with the rest of the plebes.
2. •
   Of high quality; top-notch.

   • This is a select cut of beef.

verb2

1. •
   To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options.

   • He looked over the menu, and selected the roast beef.
   • The program computes all the students' grades, then selects a random sample for human verification.
2. •
   To obtain a set of data from a database using a query.

noun1

1. •
   A button (of a joystick, joypad or similar device) that, when pressed, activates any of certain predefined functions that usually, but not always, involve selecting something out of a list of items.