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selector|sɪˈlɛktə(r)|
[f. select v. + -or.]
One who or something which selects. a. gen.
1782V. Knox Ess. cv. [civ.] II. 93 Like all inventors and selectors of their own systems, they have been hurried to excess. 1797(title) The Selector. Being a new..collection of Visions, Tales [etc.]. 1809Heber in Q. Rev. II. 294 Given from Dr. King's work, with sundry comments by the ingenious selector. 1867S. Wilberforce Ess. (1874) I. 67 Why should she [nature] become a selector of varieties? 1887Law Rep., Weekly Notes 48/2 Here both parties were selectors or importers of cigars, not manufacturers.
b. Austral. = free-selector.
1875Melbourne Spect. 12 June 70/2 A public meeting of non-resident selectors has been held at Rushworth. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xxvii. 242 She was the daughter of one of the selectors at Blue Gum Flats.
c. As a name for various appliances in metallurgy, telegraphy, motor-car machinery, etc. spec. (a) in a gearbox, the part that moves the gearwheels into and out of engagement; (b) Teleph., a mechanism which automatically establishes electrical connection with one of a group of available contacts according to the number of impulses in the incoming signal; (c) in a motor vehicle with automatic transmission, the control by which the driver selects the mode of operation of the transmission.
1890Nature 7 Aug. 357/1 A device [in a horsehair-cloth loom]..known as the selector..picks up one hair, and only one, to present to the jaws of the shuttle. 1903Electr. Rev. (Chicago) XLIII. 583/1 Each subscriber is connected to the exchange by two lines which end in what is called a first selector switch... The first selector consists of a couple of relays. 1907Westm. Gaz. 9 Nov. 15/2 The selector or operating mechanism is placed in the bottom of the gear-box; so that all the gears can be removed without disturbing any part of it. 1908Ibid. 16 Nov. 14/2 A selector-gate change has been installed [in the motor-car]. 1926H. T. Rutter Mod. Motors II. vii. 262 By moving the gear lever by hand it actuates what are termed selector rods, which are forked rods that slide the gear wheels on the gear-shaft one at a time into a position to mesh with the respective gear wheels on the lay-shaft. 1930Bell System Tech. Jrnl. IX. 22 By placing several selectors in series a network of central offices may be built up, each office serving 10,000 telephones. 1961Listener 16 Nov. 832/1, I would have been waiting, like some predetermined selector, for the necessary keys to fall into position. 1967K. H. Brinkmann tr. K. Trautman's Design of Automatic Telephone Exchanges 16 Each selector has a relay set which controls the switching functions... Ten final selectors would suffice to serve 100 subscribers since each switch interconnects two subscribers. 1967Times 31 Mar. 3/7 The coroner said the selector lever must have been in ‘drive’. 1973D. Barnes See the Woman (1974) i. 9 Conrad stopped, pushed the selector to park..and opened the car door. 1973H. Fantel True Sound of Music (1974) vii. 105 To start with, any amplifier has a selector switch. As its name implies, it lets you pick the program source you want to hear: radio, record player, or tape. 1976L. Thomas Dangerous Davies ii. 13 The record..swooped again onto the turntable at her touch of the selector button.
d. Sport. One of a number of officials appointed to select a team.
1928Daily Mail 2 Apr. 14/1 The selectors could not find in England a team good enough to stop this very perfect Scottish machine. 1934F. J. C. Gustard Eng. v. Austral. 9 His action may have saved the selectors a certain amount of embarrassment. 1953B. Harris Cricket Triumph i. 19 Laker did not come into the side until the third test match, for in the selectors' minds he and Roy Tattersall..were of equal talent. 1976J. Snow Cricket Rebel 138, I said somewhere in a newspaper article that 1974 summer that the selectors would have to be shot before I made a Test comeback. I think my assessment was right.
Hence selecˈtorial a., of or pertaining to a team selector (sense d above).
1959Times 12 Oct. 15/4 The manner of its achievement cannot but raise some doubts in selectorial minds. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 13 Selectorial opinion, for one reason or another, was hardening against Sheppard. 1975Cricketer May 37/1 Mr Holloway..seems to feel (as indeed I do) that selectorial bias in favour of the southern and more particularly Home counties is an inescapable fact.
▸ slang (orig. Jamaican). Also in forms selecta, selectah. A parallel formation selecter is also occas. attested in this sense. Originally in reggae music: a person who assists a disc jockey by selecting the next record to be played; (hence) a dance music DJ.
1980‘J. Strummer’ et al. Living in Fame (transcription of song) in wwwlyricsfreak.com (O.E.D. Archive) If you say you a selector You a fe have good selection. 1997S. Barrow & P. Dalton Reggae i. 15/1 Coxsone had excellent taste in music, an attribute which enabled his selectors to trounce the opposition in sound clashes. 2001Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 25 Jan. 72 Drum 'n' bass event with UK DJs SS and Randall plus MCs Warren G and Fats plus local selectors 1LC and Atom 1. 2003Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 4 Sept. 41 p, Reggae music was built by sound systems and selectas. |