📖 S — The English dictionary · page 24

seizure — Everyday, meaning 1: A seizure is a sudden burst of unusual electrical activity in the brain that can make a person shake, fall, stare or lose consciousness.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Seizure is also the act of taking something by force or by law, like the police seizure of stolen goods.↗ Example: My friend has epilepsy and sometimes has seizures.↗ · During a seizure, move things away so the person doesn't get hurt.↗ · Never put anything in someone's mouth during a seizure.↗ · Call for help if the seizure lasts more than five minutes.↗ · Flashing lights can cause seizures in some people.↗ · Police made a big seizure of stolen phones.↗ · But as this sudden seizure showed no sign of abating, he left her to her women, ordering them to take the greatest care of her.↗

seldom — Everyday, meaning 1: Not often; rarely.↗ e.g. We seldom see snow here.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «Seldom, if ever» means almost never.↗ Example: It seldom rains in the desert.↗ · We seldom eat out because it costs a lot.↗ · Owls are seldom seen in the day.↗ · Snow is seldom, if ever, seen in this town.↗ · He seldom forgets his homework.↗ · A seldom event has a low chance of happening.↗ · Very seldom does she miss a match.↗ · Old Anthony seldom spoke of this place, but he thought of it all the more.↗ · Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbour's house; lest he be sated with thee, and hate thee.↗ (Writings PRO.25.17, JPS 1917)↗

select — Everyday, meaning 1: To choose someone or something from a group, carefully.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (computers) To click on or highlight something on a screen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective, formal) Only for a small group of the best or richest people.↗ Example: Select the correct answer from the list.↗ · She was selected for the school netball team.↗ · A marble is selected at random from the bag.↗ · Select the word and click "delete".↗ · We selected three books to take on holiday.↗ · Only a select few were invited to the party.↗ · Select two numbers that add up to 10.↗ · The coach selected the fastest runners.↗ · From among the numerous stories relating to the Vyed'ma we may select the following, which bears her name.↗

selected — Everyday, meaning 1: Selected means chosen from a group, often carefully.↗ e.g. "she was selected for the team".↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Selected (adjective) means only some, not all.↗ e.g. "on sale in selected shops".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: On a computer, selected text or items are marked (highlighted) so you can do something with them.↗ Example: Mia was selected for the netball team.↗ · Selected items are half price this week.↗ · A card is selected at random from 52 cards.↗ · Click the selected text and make it bold.↗ · Only five pupils were selected to read in assembly.↗ · The chef uses carefully selected fruit.↗ · If one of 4 balls is selected, the chance of red is 1 in 4.↗ · Parallels.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales.↗ · He selected three letters from among the simple ones and sealed them and formed them into a Great (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · He selected three letters from the simple ones, and sealed them as forming his great Name, I H V and he sealed the universe in six directions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · His ministers a flaming fire."↗ (Psalm 104, 4.)↗ [1:13] He selected three consonants from the simple ones which are in the hidden secret of three mothers or first elements: א"מ"ש air, water and ether or fire.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

selection — Everyday, meaning 1: Selection is choosing someone or something from a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A selection is a set of things chosen, or a range of things to choose from.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (science) Natural selection is how living things that suit their surroundings survive and have young.↗ Example: The bakery has a wide selection of bread.↗ · Team selection is on Friday.↗ · I got a selection box of chocolates.↗ · Natural selection helps animals adapt over many generations.↗ · Make a selection from the menu.↗ · There are 4 cakes and 3 drinks; how many different selections of one cake and one drink?↗ (12)↗ · In making my selection I have chiefly tried to make the stories characteristic.↗

selective — Everyday, meaning 1: Selective means choosing carefully, only taking some things and not others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A selective school only takes pupils who pass a test or meet certain standards.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Selective can mean affecting only some things: a selective weedkiller kills weeds but not grass.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Selective hearing» or «a selective memory» jokingly means only hearing or remembering what you want to.↗ Example: Farmers used selective breeding to make cows give more milk.↗ · She is very selective about which books she reads.↗ · My brother has selective hearing when it is time to tidy up.↗ · It is a selective school, so you have to sit an exam.↗ · The gardener used a selective weedkiller on the lawn.↗ · Be selective with your photos and only share the best ones.↗ · Cats can be selective eaters.↗

selector — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who chooses players for a team.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A device, knob or switch for choosing a setting.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (computing) A tool or rule that picks out items.↗ Example: The selectors picked her for the county team.↗ · Turn the selector to «wash».↗ · The cricket selectors announced the squad.↗ · Dad moved the gear selector to reverse.↗ · The selector chose the fastest runners.↗ · Use the colour selector to pick blue.↗

self — Everyday, meaning 1: The person you are, your own nature and character: her true self.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Your usual state.↗ e.g. He wasn't his normal self today.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Self- (prefix): by, of or for yourself: self-service, self-confidence, self-portrait.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (on a cheque or form, formal) Yourself.↗ Example: Be your true self.↗ · After a good sleep she was back to her cheerful self.↗ · He wasn't his usual self after the bad news.↗ · Van Gogh painted many self-portraits.↗ · Use the self-service checkout.↗ · Practising helps build self-confidence.↗ · Self-care means looking after your body and mind.↗ · Self help is the best help.↗ · Let my soul not come into their council; unto their assembly let my glory not be united; for in their anger they slew men, and in their self-will they houghed oxen.↗ (Torah GEN.49.6, JPS 1917)↗ · To return, to turn one's self round.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

selfish — Everyday, meaning 1: A selfish person thinks mostly about themselves and what they want, and does not care enough about other people.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A selfish act is one done only for your own good, at others' expense.↗ Example: It's selfish to eat all the sweets yourself.↗ · The Selfish Giant would not let the children play in his garden.↗ · He was too selfish to share his toys.↗ · Taking the last seat when Grandma was standing was selfish.↗ · Being selfish can lose you friends.↗ · She realised she had been selfish and said sorry.↗ · He was a very selfish Giant.↗

selfishness — Everyday, meaning 1: Selfishness is caring only about yourself and not about other people's needs or wishes.↗ Example: Selfishness makes friends go away.↗ · She refused to share, and her selfishness spoiled the party.↗ · True friends have no selfishness.↗

selfless — Everyday, meaning 1: A selfless person thinks about other people's needs and happiness more than their own.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A selfless act is something done to help others without wanting anything back.↗ Example: The firefighter's selfless courage saved the family.↗ · Mum is selfless; she always gives us the bigger slice.↗ · Giving your lunch to the hungry boy was a selfless thing to do.↗ · Nurses did selfless work during the long winter of illness.↗ · Christians believe Jesus showed selfless love.↗ · Her selfless help at the food bank was thanked in assembly.↗

selflessly — Everyday, meaning 1: In a way that thinks about others more than yourself; generously and without wanting a reward.↗ Example: The firefighters worked selflessly to save the family.↗ · She selflessly gave her lunch to a hungry friend.↗ · Volunteers help selflessly at the food bank.↗ · He selflessly let the younger children go first.↗ · Christians believe Jesus gave his life selflessly.↗ · Mum selflessly stayed up all night with the sick puppy.↗

selfsame — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: exactly the same.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: Exactly the same, the very same one.↗ Example: And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying: (Torah DEU.32.48, JPS 1917)↗ · In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.↗ (Torah GEN.17.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass the selfsame day that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.↗ (Torah EXO.12.51, JPS 1917)↗ · But Thou art the selfsame, and Thy years shall have no end.↗ (Writings PSA.102.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn, in the selfsame day.↗ (Prophets JOS.5.11, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this selfsame day; this selfsame day the king of Babylon hath invested Jerusalem.↗ (Prophets EZK.24.2, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsame day, saying:↗ (Torah DEU.32.48, JPS 1917) · And he continued, and said, "About the third cockcrow something else came to the window and said the selfsame thing, and added, 'This shall befall thy lord on his way home.↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) · In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.↗ (Torah GEN.17.26, JPS 1917)

sell — Everyday, meaning 1: To sell is to give something to someone for money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something sells when people buy it, as in «The book sells well».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To sell an idea is to make people like it or agree with it.↗ Example: The baker sold 75 cakes.↗ · She sells lemonade for 2 dollars a cup.↗ · How many cakes did he sell in all?↗ · He sold 8 more than yesterday.↗ · The concert tickets sold out in an hour.↗ · We sold old toys at a garage sale.↗ · The shop sells shoes and bags.↗ · The house is for sale.↗ · He sold his bike to his cousin.↗ · Ice cream sells best in summer.↗ · And Jacob said: 'Sell me first thy birthright.'↗ (Torah GEN.25.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.45.4, JPS 1917)↗ · after that he is sold he may be redeemed; one of his brethren may redeem him; (Torah LEV.25.48, JPS 1917)↗ · He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant; (Writings PSA.105.17, JPS 1917)↗ · Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.↗ (Writings PRO.23.23, JPS 1917)↗ · Or which of My creditors is it to whom I have sold you?↗ (Prophets ISA.50.1, JPS 1917)↗

seller — Everyday, meaning 1: A seller is a person or shop that sells things for money.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A best seller is a book or thing that very many people buy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A good seller is a thing that sells well.↗ Example: The seller has 50 melons.↗ · The seller charges $2 per melon.↗ · A flower seller sold 36 roses.↗ · How much money did the seller make?↗ · The ice-cream seller rings a bell as he drives down the street.↗ · The book became a best seller in a month.↗ · The seller gave me my change and a smile.↗ · Always check that an online seller is real before you pay.↗ · Let someone find the plum-seller at once and bring him to me!↗ · So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.↗ (Writings NEH.13.20, JPS 1917)↗ · The time is come, the day draweth near; let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.12, JPS 1917)↗ · For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive; for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any stand possessed of the iniquity of his life.↗ (Prophets EZK.7.13, JPS 1917)↗

selleth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «selleth» means «sells», a form of «sell».↗ e.g. To sell is to give something to someone for money.↗ Example: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.↗ (Torah EXO.21.16, JPS 1917)

selvedge — Everyday, meaning 1: The edge of a piece of woven cloth, made so that it does not fray or unravel.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: More widely, an edge or border strip of something, like the edge of a piece of land.↗ Example: The selvedge of the cloth had the maker's name printed on it.↗ · Pin the pattern so the arrow runs along the selvedge.↗ · The selvedge stops the cloth from fraying.↗ · Grandma cut off the selvedge before sewing the quilt.↗ · The denim had a neat red stripe on its selvedge.↗ · Weavers make a tight selvedge on each side of the loom.↗