| choice |
an act of choosing or selecting; selection. [1/7 definitions] |
| choose |
to make a decision or selection. [1/4 definitions] |
| consider |
to think about as a possible selection or option. [1/7 definitions] |
| convenience store |
a store, often near a busy road or highway, that is open long hours and that sells a limited selection of grocery items, especially snacks and beverages, as well as certain pharmaceutical and automotive items. |
| cross section |
a representative sample or selection of typical parts that reveals what the whole is like. [1/3 definitions] |
| Darwinian theory |
Charles Darwin's theory that plants and animals evolved from early primitive life forms with variation caused by natural selection and survival of the fittest. (See evolution.) |
| default |
in computing, selected automatically by a program or device in the absence of an active selection by the user. [1/14 definitions] |
| diet1 |
a special selection of food and drink, esp. for medical purposes or the correction of physical problems. [1/6 definitions] |
| evolution |
the continuous modification and adaptation of organisms to their environments through selection, hybridization, and the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| fountain |
a counter in a store or restaurant at which one can purchase sodas and other ice cream dishes, and often a limited selection of other light food and drink, for consumption on the premises; soda fountain. [1/5 definitions] |
| fraternity |
a social organization of male college students which usu. has a name composed of Greek letters, and which has a strict selection and initiation procedure. (Cf. sorority.) [1/4 definitions] |
| kingmaker |
a person who is powerful enough to select, or influence the selection of, a political candidate or ruler. |
| market basket |
a selection of goods and services, esp. food, considered to represent a typical family's needs over a period of time, and used to calculate changes in the cost of living. |
| Neo-Darwinism |
a theory of evolution that denies the inheritance of acquired characteristics and asserts that natural selection determines evolution. |
| playlist |
a selection of audio or visual tapes played by a radio or television station. |
| popular vote |
a vote on a particular issue or in selection of an official carried out by individual voters, as opposed to a vote carried out by a locality's elected representatives. [1/2 definitions] |
| Psalter |
(sometimes l.c.) a book containing the Old Testament Psalms, or a version of or selection from the Psalms, for use in religious worship. |
| random |
in statistics, pertaining to the selection of a sample of a population, each member of which has theoretically the same chance of being selected. [1/4 definitions] |
| sampler |
a collection of various sorts of a product; selection. [1/3 definitions] |
| sampling |
the act or process of selecting a small representative set of things or persons from which an analysis of a whole group can be made; selection of a sample. [1/2 definitions] |
| selection |
in biology, the process taking place over many generations by which one variant of a particular organism survives over another; natural selection. [1/4 definitions] |