selector

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Sports British English

n. a person who decides which players will be on a sports team.

n. an official responsible for choosing the individual players who will represent a team or national side in a match.

“The national team selector watched the game to find new talent.”

“After the unexpected defeat, the national selectors faced intense public scrutiny regarding their choice of a young, inexperienced bowling attack.”

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Computing Technical

n. a part of a computer code that tells the computer which part of a page to style.

n. a pattern of characters in a stylesheet, such as CSS, used to identify the HTML elements to which a set of style rules applies.

“You need to use the right CSS selector to change the color of the buttons.”

“The developer used a complex descendant selector to ensure the styling only affected list items within the navigation menu.”

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Music Informal

n. a person who chooses and plays music, especially in reggae or dancehall culture.

n. a disc jockey who selects and plays records, particularly within the context of Jamaican sound system culture.

“The selector played a great mix of old and new reggae tracks.”

“The crowd cheered as the selector dropped a rare dubplate that hadn't been heard in the city for years.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Law Archaic · Dialect

n. a person in Australian history who chose a piece of government land to buy.

n. a person who, under various Australian Land Acts, was entitled to select a tract of Crown land for purchase and settlement.

“The selector built a small house on the land he bought from the government.”

“Tensions frequently arose between the wealthy squatters and the new selectors who arrived to claim smaller parcels of the fertile valley.”