Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who selects or chooses.
- noun In machinery, a device which separates and selects.
- noun An automatic switch used in telephone exchanges. See
selector switch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who selects.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone or something which
selects orchooses differentoptions . - noun this redundant sense?) (
cricket ) Anadministrator responsible for selecting whichplayers willplay for aside . - noun Internet A
matching expression in astylesheet determining whichelements in themarkup are affected by astyle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who chooses or selects out
- noun a switch that is used to select among alternatives
Etymologies
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Examples
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Below there is the scheduled timer: animationTimer = NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval: animationInterval target: self selector: @selector (refreshAll) userInfo: nil repeats: YES
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"Play" target: self selector: @selector MenuItem * menuItem2 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString: @
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"Settings" target: self selector: @selector MenuItem * menuItem3 = [MenuItemFont itemFromString: @
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The major page content explains what the selector is and gives some details about different operators that can be used to specify the type of attribute being targeted.
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Interesting stuff Raymond every book or article I've ever seen on assembly language programming has referred to what you call selector's as segments.
MSDN Blogs 2008
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The subtransmission (high and low range) and reverse are controlled by a fuel-tank-mounted lever, and the 2WD/4WD selector is a handlebar-mounted lever.
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Note that the difference between a descendant selector and a group selector is the presence of a comma.
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A group selector is nothing more than a comma separated list of selectors that all share the same rule.
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The way to narrow your target words down is to use a keyword selector tool.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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They also enhanced their code environment with sophisticated features like line-numbering, colour-coding and code-hints and added other code-friendly features to supplement the visual development environment such as the tag selector which displays the HTML tags representing the objects on the page.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
bilby commented on the word selector
Australian use: a person who lived on a selection, an allocation of land by the government for free settlers. I say lived because we're talking about the 1800s.
January 26, 2014