"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.AdjectiveOf high quality; top-notch.
"This is a select cut of beef."
3.VerbTo 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."
4.VerbTo obtain a set of data from a database using a query.