- the act of choosing or selecting;
"your choice of colors was unfortunate" "you can take your pick"
- an assortment of things from which a choice can be made;
"the store carried a large selection of shoes"
- the person or thing chosen or selected;
"he was my pick for mayor"
- a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
- a passage selected from a larger work;
"he presented excerpts from William James' philosophical writings"