SELECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does selected mean? 

• SELECTED (adjective)
  The adjective SELECTED has 1 sense:

1. chosen in preference to another

  Familiarity information: SELECTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chosen in preference to another

Similar:

elect; elite (selected as the best)

Antonym:

unselected (not selected)

 Context examples 

The gene panel was selected and the Recurrence Score calculation was derived through extensive laboratory testing and multiple independent clinical development studies.

(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Thesaurus)

The cells were selected and subcloned in 1987 for resistance to 39 nM mitoxantrone, an anthracenedione antitumor agent.

(HL-60/MX1, NCI Thesaurus)

The MOF that Teplensky and team selected breaks down into harmless components that are easily recycled by the cell without harmful side effects.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

These interactions are involved in activation, proliferation and maturation of selected B cells and apoptosis of non-selected populations.

(Immunoglobulin-Mediated Cell Signaling, NCI Thesaurus)

Cancer types were selected for analysis if there were at least 300 cases.

(Physical activity associated with lower risk of many cancers, NIH)

His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other. I hope we may often meet again.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You will ask me why I selected Friar’s Oak.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Converting forests into farms is not economically viable except in selected regions, says a global study.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

Of these 380 alternatives, they selected the ten polymers that presented the best properties in terms of facilitating the adhesion and viability of this cell type in particular.

(Scientists design a new hydrogel that helps regenerate cartilage, University of Granada)