Select

Select or SELECT may refer to:

  • Select (album), an album by Kim Wilde
  • Select (magazine), a British music magazine
  • Select (SQL), a keyword in SQL
  • select (Unix), a system call (in sys/select.h or unistd.h) for polling multiple file descriptors
  • , an HTML element
  • Cable select, a setting on ATA devices that allows position on the cable to determine the role of a drive
  • quick select, an algorithm to select the kth-smallest element of an array
  • Select Live, New Zealand's C4 music program
  • Shell Select, a chain of convenience stores owned by Royal Dutch Shell and located in most Shell stations
  • Select Citywalk, a shopping mall in Delhi, India
  • MTV Select, a television program
  • SELECT (Electrical Contractors' Association of Scotland)
  • SELECT Sport A/S, a Danish sports equipment manufacturer

Famous quotes containing the word select:

    “Cry cry what shall I cry?
    The first thing to do is to form the committees:
    The consultative councils, the standing committees, select committees and sub-committees.
    One secretary will do for several committees.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Here lies the body of Sir John Guise.
    Nobody laughs, and nobody cries;
    Where his soul is and how it fares
    Nobody knows and nobody cares.”
    —Anonymous. From Frobisher’s New Select Collection of Epitaphs (c. 1791)

    “The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.”
    —Orson Welles (1915–1984)