to choose or select by vote, as for an office: to elect a mayor.Antonyms: reject.
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to determine in favor of (a method, course of action, etc.). Antonyms: reject.
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to pick out; choose: First-year students may elect French, Spanish, or German.
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Theology. (of God) to select for divine mercy or favor, especially for salvation.
verb (used without object)
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to choose or select someone or something, as by voting.
adjective
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selected, as for an office, but not yet inducted (usually used in combination following a noun): the governor-elect.
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select or choice: an elect circle of artists.
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Theology. chosen by God, especially for eternal life.
noun, the elect.
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a person or the persons chosen or worthy to be chosen.
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Theology. a person or persons chosen by God, especially for favor or salvation.
Origin: 1250–1300;Middle English < Latinēlēctus chosen (past participle of ēligere), equivalent to ē-e-1 + leg- choose + -tus past participle suffix; see elite
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.