selectiveadj.

Brit.

/sᵻˈlɛktɪv/, U.S.

/səˈlɛktɪv/

Etymology: < select v. + -ive suffix. Compare French sélectif.

a. Having the quality or faculty of selecting; characterized by choice or selection.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selective

selective1623

preferential1754

1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 139 Who can enough wonder at the pitch of this selectiue prouidence of the Almightie?

1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. Pref. p. iv The translation is thus rather a selective than an abridged translation.

1875 J. Ruskin Lect. Art (ed. 2) iii. 72 The selective and ordinant energy of the brain.

b. Applied to physical processes or agencies which result in the selection of some elements or factors and the exclusion of others.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > [adjective] > types of processes

selective1844

unphysiologic1888

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > kept for breeding > bred for desired quality

selective1844

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selective > of physical processes or agencies

selective1844

1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. i. 39 The selective absorption of nutritious matter.

1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism vii. 171 The isolation of varieties by selective association.

c. Telegraphy. ‘Designating a system by which two or more messages can be sent or received simultaneously without interference’ (Webster 1911).

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society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > types of system

multiplex1873

quadruplex1874

diplex1878

sextuplex1879

simplex1884

diode1886

hexode1886

tetrode1886

triode1886

octuplex1893

selective1906

quadded1914

multiplexed1964

muxed1991

1906 G. Eichhorn Wireless Telegr. v. 23 A system of selective electric wave telegraphy, i.e. wireless multiplex telegraphy.

1906 A. E. Kennelly Wireless Telegr. 173 The Problem of Selective Signaling.

d. Psychology. Applied to the capacity for, or process of, selection manifested by the mind or senses in reacting to certain stimuli and not to others, esp. selective attention.

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1875 W. James in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 528 The whole mass of impressions falling on any individual are chaotic, and become orderly only by selective attention and recognition.

1935 G. Murphy Briefer Gen. Psychol. xii. 210 From the point of view..of what takes the most prominent place in consciousness, there is a further selective function to be considered.

1958 D. E. Broadbent Perception & Communication ii. 15 The performance of selective listeners seems to vary with information as defined by communication theory, rather than with amount of stimulation in the conventional sense.

1968 Trabasso & Bower Attention in Learning i. 18 Our primary goal is to offer new theory and new results regarding selective attention in discrimination learning.

1978 G. Underwood Strategies of Information Processing vii. 237 The selective rehearsal of some members of the memory set in preference to others.., the selective ‘forgetting’ of some items previously encoded.

e. Education. (See quot. 1960-1.) Also applied to any school within the selective (as opposed to the comprehensive) system. Cf. comprehensive adj. 1d.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > school > [adjective] > others

pre-kindergarten1912

selective1926

single-sex1939

sole-charge1941

home-school1949

Vo-Tech1950

multitrack1954

streamed1962

1926 Educ. of Adolescent (Board of Educ. Consult. Comm.) iii. 79 As post-primary education develops, the schools dealing with the post-primary or secondary stage of education should include..schools of the type of the existing selective Central Schools, which give at least a four years' course from the age of 11+.

1955 O. Banks Parity & Prestige in Eng. Secondary Educ. viii. 97 Both the selective central school and the junior technical school originated in the period before the first world war.

1960–1 Where? Winter 17/1 Selective school, a school for which pupils have been selected (usually at 11 plus) on the grounds that they can benefit from a more academic education.

1974 Times 17 Apr. 1/5 Over half of our secondary school pupils are still in selective schools.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 335/1 The decision to change our schooling from a selective to a comprehensive system.

f. Philosophy. Applied to a doctrine of realism put forward in the early 20th century which maintained that sense-data exist in material objects and that the senses of the perceiver select those which are appropriate to be registered.

ΚΠ

1932 H. H. Price Perception ii. 40 Now let us turn to the selective interpretation. According to this, the somatic data..merely..enable us to be conscious of environmental data.

1944 W. T. Stace in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 365 The view of selective realism is quite different... The sense-qualities actually exist in the object, whether it is perceived or unperceived, just as common sense supposes. What the sense-organ does is to select which of the sense-qualities we shall perceive.

1967 Encycl. Philos. VII. 78/2 Their..attempt..to deal with illusions..is a version of what is often called the selective theory.

Compounds

Special collocations.

selective breeding n.

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1931 J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? i. 40 Selective breeding I have just touched upon.

1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 354 Selective breeding down through the last 150 years has produced the Foxhound of today.

selective employment tax n. (also with capital initials), a tax levied by the British Government between 3 May 1966 and 1 April 1973, payable on all employees at varying rates and refunded to employers in selected branches of manufacturing industry; cf. S.E.T. n. at S n.¹ Initialisms 1.

ΚΠ

1966 Times 4 May 1/1 A selective employment tax payable by employers only is to be introduced by the Government from September 5 to divert manpower from the service industry into manufacturing.

1973 Guardian 13 Apr. 13/5 Selective Employment Tax ended on 1 April 1973. As an employer, you may be eligible for a refund of S.E.T.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 405/1 The next phase was the indictment of the so-called ‘candyfloss industries’ and their punishment through the Selective Employment Tax.

selective service n. U.S. a system of military service (from 1917 to 1973) under which draftees were selected from those persons required to enrol.

ΚΠ

1917 New Republic 9 June 148/2 The New Republic advocated the principle of selective service for this emergency.

1920 E. H. Crowder Spirit of Selective Service v. 119 There were to be two phases to Selective Service, the one, enrollment, the other selection.

1969 G. L. Wamsley Selective Service & Changing Amer. i. 1 A step can be taken toward understanding why Selective Service has come under attack after years of anonymity.

1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone vii. 157 Nor did he meekly submit to his Selective Service draft notice.

selective strike n. a form of industrial action in which union labour is not totally withdrawn but withheld in chosen sectors.

ΚΠ

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Dec. 2/2 Selective strikes would be expedient to the union, since they would concentrate pressure on individual companies.

1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. a1/5 The powerful Teamsters union early today called ‘selective strikes’ against a portion of the trucking industry.

selective weedkiller n. a substance which kills some plant species without harming others.

ΚΠ

1928 H. Martin Sci. Princ. Plant Protection ix. 170 The peculiar virtues of the metallic sulphates as selective weedkillers.

1965 Listener 22 July 142/1 Historically, selective weedkillers have been used since 1895 when solutions of copper sulphate were used to destroy charlock in cereal crops.

1976 Field 18 Nov. 1040/2 Base fertilizer for lawns should be applied in March or early April..and the selective weedkiller a week or two later.

Draft additions September 2006

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor n. Pharmacology any of a class of psychoactive drugs that act by inhibiting the reuptake into presynaptic nerve cells of the neurotransmitter serotonin, and are used chiefly in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders; abbreviated SSRI.

ΚΠ

1978 Life Sci. 22 1827 The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Org 6582, inhibits heterosexual copulatory behavior in castrated testosterone-treated male rats.

1993 Harper's Mag. May 54 In 1978 Pfizer scientists first synthesized sertraline hydrochloride, a ‘selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor’, which increases activity in brain synapses.

2004 New Statesman 6 Sept. 11/2 The new-generation drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. (Serotonin is the brain chemical associated with happiness.)

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	selective
释义	selectiveadj. Brit. /sᵻˈlɛktɪv/, U.S. /səˈlɛktɪv/ Etymology: < select v. + -ive suffix. Compare French sélectif. a. Having the quality or faculty of selecting; characterized by choice or selection. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selective selective1623 preferential1754 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 139 Who can enough wonder at the pitch of this selectiue prouidence of the Almightie? 1853 W. Whewell tr. H. Grotius De Jure Belli I. Pref. p. iv The translation is thus rather a selective than an abridged translation. 1875 J. Ruskin Lect. Art (ed. 2) iii. 72 The selective and ordinant energy of the brain. b. Applied to physical processes or agencies which result in the selection of some elements or factors and the exclusion of others. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > [adjective] > types of processes selective1844 unphysiologic1888 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > kept for breeding > bred for desired quality selective1844 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > [adjective] > selecting > selective > of physical processes or agencies selective1844 1844 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. i. 39 The selective absorption of nutritious matter. 1889 A. R. Wallace Darwinism vii. 171 The isolation of varieties by selective association. c. Telegraphy. ‘Designating a system by which two or more messages can be sent or received simultaneously without interference’ (Webster 1911). ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [adjective] > types of system multiplex1873 quadruplex1874 diplex1878 sextuplex1879 simplex1884 diode1886 hexode1886 tetrode1886 triode1886 octuplex1893 selective1906 quadded1914 multiplexed1964 muxed1991 1906 G. Eichhorn Wireless Telegr. v. 23 A system of selective electric wave telegraphy, i.e. wireless multiplex telegraphy. 1906 A. E. Kennelly Wireless Telegr. 173 The Problem of Selective Signaling. d. Psychology. Applied to the capacity for, or process of, selection manifested by the mind or senses in reacting to certain stimuli and not to others, esp. selective attention. ΚΠ 1875 W. James in R. B. Perry Thought & Char. W. James (1935) I. 528 The whole mass of impressions falling on any individual are chaotic, and become orderly only by selective attention and recognition. 1935 G. Murphy Briefer Gen. Psychol. xii. 210 From the point of view..of what takes the most prominent place in consciousness, there is a further selective function to be considered. 1958 D. E. Broadbent Perception & Communication ii. 15 The performance of selective listeners seems to vary with information as defined by communication theory, rather than with amount of stimulation in the conventional sense. 1968 Trabasso & Bower Attention in Learning i. 18 Our primary goal is to offer new theory and new results regarding selective attention in discrimination learning. 1978 G. Underwood Strategies of Information Processing vii. 237 The selective rehearsal of some members of the memory set in preference to others.., the selective ‘forgetting’ of some items previously encoded. e. Education. (See quot. 1960-1.) Also applied to any school within the selective (as opposed to the comprehensive) system. Cf. comprehensive adj. 1d. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [adjective] > others pre-kindergarten1912 selective1926 single-sex1939 sole-charge1941 home-school1949 Vo-Tech1950 multitrack1954 streamed1962 1926 Educ. of Adolescent (Board of Educ. Consult. Comm.) iii. 79 As post-primary education develops, the schools dealing with the post-primary or secondary stage of education should include..schools of the type of the existing selective Central Schools, which give at least a four years' course from the age of 11+. 1955 O. Banks Parity & Prestige in Eng. Secondary Educ. viii. 97 Both the selective central school and the junior technical school originated in the period before the first world war. 1960–1 Where? Winter 17/1 Selective school, a school for which pupils have been selected (usually at 11 plus) on the grounds that they can benefit from a more academic education. 1974 Times 17 Apr. 1/5 Over half of our secondary school pupils are still in selective schools. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 335/1 The decision to change our schooling from a selective to a comprehensive system. f. Philosophy. Applied to a doctrine of realism put forward in the early 20th century which maintained that sense-data exist in material objects and that the senses of the perceiver select those which are appropriate to be registered. ΚΠ 1932 H. H. Price Perception ii. 40 Now let us turn to the selective interpretation. According to this, the somatic data..merely..enable us to be conscious of environmental data. 1944 W. T. Stace in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 365 The view of selective realism is quite different... The sense-qualities actually exist in the object, whether it is perceived or unperceived, just as common sense supposes. What the sense-organ does is to select which of the sense-qualities we shall perceive. 1967 Encycl. Philos. VII. 78/2 Their..attempt..to deal with illusions..is a version of what is often called the selective theory. Compounds Special collocations. selective breeding n. ΚΠ 1931 J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? i. 40 Selective breeding I have just touched upon. 1971 F. Hamilton World Encycl. Dogs 354 Selective breeding down through the last 150 years has produced the Foxhound of today. selective employment tax n. (also with capital initials), a tax levied by the British Government between 3 May 1966 and 1 April 1973, payable on all employees at varying rates and refunded to employers in selected branches of manufacturing industry; cf. S.E.T. n. at S n.¹ Initialisms 1. ΚΠ 1966 Times 4 May 1/1 A selective employment tax payable by employers only is to be introduced by the Government from September 5 to divert manpower from the service industry into manufacturing. 1973 Guardian 13 Apr. 13/5 Selective Employment Tax ended on 1 April 1973. As an employer, you may be eligible for a refund of S.E.T. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 405/1 The next phase was the indictment of the so-called ‘candyfloss industries’ and their punishment through the Selective Employment Tax. selective service n. U.S. a system of military service (from 1917 to 1973) under which draftees were selected from those persons required to enrol. ΚΠ 1917 New Republic 9 June 148/2 The New Republic advocated the principle of selective service for this emergency. 1920 E. H. Crowder Spirit of Selective Service v. 119 There were to be two phases to Selective Service, the one, enrollment, the other selection. 1969 G. L. Wamsley Selective Service & Changing Amer. i. 1 A step can be taken toward understanding why Selective Service has come under attack after years of anonymity. 1976 N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone vii. 157 Nor did he meekly submit to his Selective Service draft notice. selective strike n. a form of industrial action in which union labour is not totally withdrawn but withheld in chosen sectors. ΚΠ 1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 Dec. 2/2 Selective strikes would be expedient to the union, since they would concentrate pressure on individual companies. 1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. a1/5 The powerful Teamsters union early today called ‘selective strikes’ against a portion of the trucking industry. selective weedkiller n. a substance which kills some plant species without harming others. ΚΠ 1928 H. Martin Sci. Princ. Plant Protection ix. 170 The peculiar virtues of the metallic sulphates as selective weedkillers. 1965 Listener 22 July 142/1 Historically, selective weedkillers have been used since 1895 when solutions of copper sulphate were used to destroy charlock in cereal crops. 1976 Field 18 Nov. 1040/2 Base fertilizer for lawns should be applied in March or early April..and the selective weedkiller a week or two later. Draft additions September 2006 selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor n. Pharmacology any of a class of psychoactive drugs that act by inhibiting the reuptake into presynaptic nerve cells of the neurotransmitter serotonin, and are used chiefly in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders; abbreviated SSRI. ΚΠ 1978 Life Sci. 22 1827 The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Org 6582, inhibits heterosexual copulatory behavior in castrated testosterone-treated male rats. 1993 Harper's Mag. May 54 In 1978 Pfizer scientists first synthesized sertraline hydrochloride, a ‘selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor’, which increases activity in brain synapses. 2004 New Statesman 6 Sept. 11/2 The new-generation drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs. (Serotonin is the brain chemical associated with happiness.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1623
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