selecting
- 1Present participle and gerund of select.
The editor is selecting which stories to run in the morning edition.
Selecting the right candidates took the panel several weeks.
Note
Even when it acts as a noun, this form keeps the verb's habit of taking a direct object: selecting the right candidates, where selection would need of the right candidates. It follows the verb into computing too, where selecting records from a database means pulling them out with a query. The adjective select, meaning 'privileged' or 'top-notch', has no share in it: a select club is not a selecting one.
selecting is a form of select
select, verb: To choose or pick out one or more people or things from a group or set, including data from a database. Full entry
- Spelling
- select → selecting: add -ing
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