[ UK /ɪlˈɛkt/ ]
[ US /ɪˈɫɛkt/ ]
VERB
  1. choose
    I elected to have my funds deposited automatically
  2. select by a vote for an office or membership
    We elected him chairman of the board
NOUN
  1. an exclusive group of people
    one of the elect who have power inside the government
ADJECTIVE
  1. selected as the best
    elite colleges
    an elect circle of artists
  2. elected but not yet installed in office
    the president elect
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How To Use elect In A Sentence

  • Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
  • As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
  • A second problem is damage caused by the buildup of excessive electrical charges in the plate from the unwanted ions.
  • The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
  • Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development. Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
  • As far back as the 1920s, it was an easy getaway for Hollywood types looking for a little privacy; and this golden era lives on at select spots.
  • At election time the party needs a lot of voluntary helpers.
  • Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.
  • Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
  • They'd moved to their cottage a few years ago and ran an electrical business in Didcot.
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