Definition of elect in English:

elect

verb ɪˈlɛktəˈlɛkt

1with object Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting.
选举，推举
he was elected as councillor
他被选为政务会委员。
the members who were elected to the committee
经选举产生的委员会成员。
with object and complement they elected him leader
Example sentencesExamples
- Let us not forget that Susilo was elected to office with an overwhelming mandate.
- Under Labour the first Muslims were elected to the House of Commons and appointed to the Lords.
- Chambers of commerce, business, school, and professional organisations are electing their leaders all over the country.
- Before the six months had gone by he was elected to the office of District Judge.
- We will also see that, by contrast, relatively few women are elected to public offices.
- If there is any reason why he should not hold a public office it should have been raised when he was first elected to the council.
- It is only recently that we have begun to see men and women freely elected to public office.
- Leong yesterday secured a majority of votes to be elected as the company's new chairman.
- After returning to Nigeria he was elected to the Northern Region House of Assembly.
- What an MP got up to once he or she was elected to office was a different matter, however.
- It is not unheard of that someone in his position could be elected as leader.
- The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote and may not be re-elected.
- The lesson appears to be that crime does pay, especially if you can get elected to public office.
- Students from classes four to 10 cast their votes to elect their student leaders.
- Mr Coles was elected to the position at the annual general meeting in July just gone.
- He has asked to vote positively to elect members who would guide the destiny of the nation for the next five years.
- I presented all the names that were elected to Cabinet office, that is where the delay is.
- He was unanimously elected to the position at the first meeting of the new board.
- Athletes may ask themselves why people like this are still being elected to these positions.
- Voters knew what they were voting for when they elected me for a second time in 1999.
Synonyms
vote (for), vote in, choose (by ballot), cast one's vote for
pick, select, return, appoint, put in, put in power, opt for, decide on, settle on, fix on, plump for
1. 1.1Christian Theology (of God) choose (someone) in preference to others for salvation.
  〔基督教神学〕（上帝）挑选（某人）（而使其灵魂永远得救）
  Example sentencesExamples
  For the God who elects to salvation is ‘not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance’.
  Why did God elect only a portion of those who have lived?
  This decision took place before we existed; the decision to elect us happened before the creation of the world.
  Yet, the Bible gives us many reasons why God elects people to salvation.
  God elects his people according to his foreknowledge of their choice of him.
2with infinitive Opt for or choose to do something.
作出选择
more people elected to work at home
更多的人选择在家中工作。
Example sentencesExamples
- The University of Massachusetts elects to keep its Minuteman mascot despite citing ‘gender, firearms and ethnicity issues’ as reasons to abandon it.
- On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved.
- A qualifying farmer may elect for a dependent spouse to participate on the scheme.
- In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages.
- Plan ahead if you elect to choose to make a handgun part of your personal defense plans.
- Some experts claim it's better to elect for a controlled cut, while others say tearing is preferable as the healing time's quicker.
- If you like a short sortie you can choose one, on the other hand if you like a brisk climb you may elect for the Masshill climb.
- Which means that by clicking ‘next’ when confronted with the first four unchecked boxes, the user unwittingly elects to receive sports, entertainment, music and new service announcements.
- McGow is proud of the fact that so many parents stay with the centre, choosing when to elect to have support.
- This issue underlies objections to legal limitations on a woman's right to elect for abortion.
- In the same way, man must also elect Christ to stand as his representative before God and to atone for his sin.
- While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
- If he elects to be chosen for the Kiwis, then he obviously forgoes any opportunity to represent NSW in State of Origin.
- The funny thing is that even if you do elect for lower coverage, you wind up not saving that much money.
- If he chooses neither of the above options and elects to run a full campaign through November, he will only do his values harm.
- Opening pre-season fixtures usually provide more questions than answers - especially when the manager elects to play a team largely made up of youngsters, trialists and squad players.
- That clause allows creditors the choice to elect for this legislation to apply to contracts that existed prior to this law coming into force.
- A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years.
- For our purposes, the thing to notice is that a patient's competence to choose between standard therapies, whether or not he or she elects to use these facilities, depends upon more than choosing that which is the most reasonable.
- A competent patient, properly advised by a doctor, may elect to choose a form of treatment which is not the one that the doctor would recommend.

adjective ɪˈlɛktəˈlɛkt

usually as plural noun the elect

1(of a person) chosen or singled out.
（人）选中的，卓越的
one of the century's elect
本世纪卓越人物之一。
Example sentencesExamples
- Monica's scar is her badge of entry to the ranks of the elect.
- If you prefer black and white to all other colour combinations, except black and black, we welcome you to the elect.
- Here's a follow-up question I wish one of the elect would ask the designated White House leakers.
- There was also a log cabin for dining, and on that late-September night, over a dinner of Mongolian noodles with beef, we met our fellow elect.
- They thought they had the key to the one true way and thus the religious elect should clearly be the ones who ran the governments.
- Anything is rumoured, as if the fate of billions can be decided by an elect anointing global trade policies like once they might have approved medieval kings in Eastern Europe.
- It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned.
- I have no bone to pick with the counties who were of the elect but have not reached Canaan.
- Suddenly the student becomes convinced that he is among the elect, the wise, the few who are privy to a secret, dark but terrible truth.
- From God's perspective Christ died and his atonement is practically effective for the elect who come to know him through the cross.
- Why should one of the elect be bothered about table manners, if cognitive ability, without virtue or civility, is the alpha and omega of human excellence?
- Yes, I have a lot of Calvinism in my family, as recently as my grandfather, who was a member of the Plymouth Brethren and certainly believed he was a member of the elect.
- Oftentimes you'll have a tiny handful of journalists there too - but only ones from the highest echelon of the elect.
- Those who do not believe in a God become separated from the elect to be defended by the Crown.
- Today, he would be called ‘born again’; a spiritual awakening convinced him he was one of the elect, placed on earth as an instrument of God's will.
- These enemies are not just the rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf, or Israel, or the US, but the whole world outside the charmed circle of the elect.
- That leaves some folks, the elect, walking around with an OK rational function, and others, the damned, walking around without one.
- Behind the social arguments lay an unmistakable malodor of claims to a moral elect.
- As a conversionary movement, millennialism seeks to create an exclusionary circle of the elect who can read and share the signs of imminent and immanent history.
- Why do I feel like the objective of this is to give people something on which they can waste their energy and attention while the elect is deciding on important things?
Synonyms
the chosen, the elite, the select, the favoured
the crème de la crème, A-list
1. 1.1Christian Theology Chosen by God for salvation.
  〔基督教神学〕蒙上帝挑选（而得救）的
  success was a sign that they were one of the elect
  the elect group of saints which was predestined for heaven
  Example sentencesExamples
  As Luther perceived, the Christian heart is fully aware that it continues in sin and in grace together, as a sinner and damned as such, and as a child of God already elect.
  In 1 Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul, writing by Divine inspiration tells us that he knew these men and women in the Church there were elect, chosen of God.
  Some people feel that because they are elect, they don't need to serve, love, and glorify God.
  Since He is the elect one, and the church is the elect people, we are joined to His body, we therefore are elect.
  The complaint is that Calvin's God is a salvation Scrooge, reluctantly doling out redemption to an elect few rather than lavishing his grace on all of humanity.
2. 1.2postpositive Chosen for a position but not yet in office.
  当选（而尚未就职）的
  the President-Elect
  当选总统。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On the other hand we have the announcement that he will offer up new hope to the Scottish economy as the chief executive elect of Scottish Enterprise.
  The Archbishop of Canterbury elect becomes a Druid and is indignant at those who think he may be flirting with paganism.
  Mark is chairman elect of the Scottish Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.
  The chairman elect, who was due to take over this year, has resigned as a director of the oil and gas explorer.
  When Russell moved up the ladder, his colleague was promoted one rung higher and was already being seen as the chief executive elect.
  The Deputy mayor elect of Marlborough has called for action to prevent a local drunkard frightening people, including women and children.
  The prime minister elect used his first full media interview since last night to affirm that he intended to follow through on what had become a key election promise.
  Glasgow Hawks are the champions elect of Scottish club rugby following a hard fought but ultimately convincing victory over a feisty Biggar.
  When the Archbishop elect made his formal entrance to York Minster later in the day, his first act was to kneel in silent prayer with head bowed for more than 10 minutes.
  The Scottish Cup winners - elect are, without doubt, the finest team in Scotland.
  Democrats are already threatening to sue the government if they squeeze in a two-year term for the new Chief Executive elect.
  The meeting also confirmed deputy town mayor Cllr Claire Wright as mayor elect for the next municipal year.
  History repeated itself when, for the second successive year, the borough's mayor elect was ousted.
  McHugh-Liam Russell, VP-education elect, was unavailable for comment, having mysteriously disappeared.
  The special guest of honour for the evening was Patricia Metham, principal elect.
  The provincial chairperson has been nominated as premier elect of the province.
  In Scarborough, the Mayor elect, who was due to take office, was defeated.
  The Liberal Democrat casualties included their Mayor elect.
  The mayor elect has been approached by regular stall holders at the Wednesday and Saturday markets expressing concern that the markets would have to be moved from the High Street.
  Bradford's Liberal Democrat Lord Mayor elect, a member of the authority, said they wanted people to give information about suspected wrong doing.
  Synonyms
  future, -to-be, soon-to-be, designate, chosen, elected, coming, next, appointed, presumptive

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin elect- 'picked out', from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + legere 'to pick'.

elegant from Late Middle English:
These days, someone elegant will generally be well dressed, but the basic idea behind the word is of being discerning and making careful choices. It comes from Old French élégant or Latin elegans, from eligere ‘to choose or select’, which was the origin of elect (Late Middle English), eligible (Late Middle English), and elite (late 18th century).

Rhymes

affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht

Definition of elect in US English:

elect

verbəˈlɛktəˈlekt

[with object]

1Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting.
选举，推举
the members who were elected to the committee
经选举产生的委员会成员。
with object and infinitive they elected him leader
Example sentencesExamples
- What an MP got up to once he or she was elected to office was a different matter, however.
- The lesson appears to be that crime does pay, especially if you can get elected to public office.
- After returning to Nigeria he was elected to the Northern Region House of Assembly.
- Voters knew what they were voting for when they elected me for a second time in 1999.
- Before the six months had gone by he was elected to the office of District Judge.
- Students from classes four to 10 cast their votes to elect their student leaders.
- It is not unheard of that someone in his position could be elected as leader.
- Chambers of commerce, business, school, and professional organisations are electing their leaders all over the country.
- Mr Coles was elected to the position at the annual general meeting in July just gone.
- He was unanimously elected to the position at the first meeting of the new board.
- Leong yesterday secured a majority of votes to be elected as the company's new chairman.
- He has asked to vote positively to elect members who would guide the destiny of the nation for the next five years.
- It is only recently that we have begun to see men and women freely elected to public office.
- We will also see that, by contrast, relatively few women are elected to public offices.
- I presented all the names that were elected to Cabinet office, that is where the delay is.
- If there is any reason why he should not hold a public office it should have been raised when he was first elected to the council.
- Athletes may ask themselves why people like this are still being elected to these positions.
- The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote and may not be re-elected.
- Let us not forget that Susilo was elected to office with an overwhelming mandate.
- Under Labour the first Muslims were elected to the House of Commons and appointed to the Lords.
Synonyms
vote, vote for, vote in, choose, choose by ballot, cast one's vote for
1. 1.1 Opt for or choose to do something.
  作出选择
  freshman year you could elect Industrial Arts
  no object more people elected to work at home
  更多的人选择在家中工作。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the same way, man must also elect Christ to stand as his representative before God and to atone for his sin.
  That clause allows creditors the choice to elect for this legislation to apply to contracts that existed prior to this law coming into force.
  A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years.
  If he elects to be chosen for the Kiwis, then he obviously forgoes any opportunity to represent NSW in State of Origin.
  For our purposes, the thing to notice is that a patient's competence to choose between standard therapies, whether or not he or she elects to use these facilities, depends upon more than choosing that which is the most reasonable.
  If he chooses neither of the above options and elects to run a full campaign through November, he will only do his values harm.
  In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages.
  Which means that by clicking ‘next’ when confronted with the first four unchecked boxes, the user unwittingly elects to receive sports, entertainment, music and new service announcements.
  A qualifying farmer may elect for a dependent spouse to participate on the scheme.
  Some experts claim it's better to elect for a controlled cut, while others say tearing is preferable as the healing time's quicker.
  Plan ahead if you elect to choose to make a handgun part of your personal defense plans.
  This issue underlies objections to legal limitations on a woman's right to elect for abortion.
  A competent patient, properly advised by a doctor, may elect to choose a form of treatment which is not the one that the doctor would recommend.
  Opening pre-season fixtures usually provide more questions than answers - especially when the manager elects to play a team largely made up of youngsters, trialists and squad players.
  On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved.
  McGow is proud of the fact that so many parents stay with the centre, choosing when to elect to have support.
  The University of Massachusetts elects to keep its Minuteman mascot despite citing ‘gender, firearms and ethnicity issues’ as reasons to abandon it.
  The funny thing is that even if you do elect for lower coverage, you wind up not saving that much money.
  If you like a short sortie you can choose one, on the other hand if you like a brisk climb you may elect for the Masshill climb.
  While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets.
2. 1.2Christian Theology (of God) choose (someone) in preference to others for salvation.
  〔基督教神学〕（上帝）挑选（某人）（而使其灵魂永远得救）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Why did God elect only a portion of those who have lived?
  For the God who elects to salvation is ‘not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance’.
  Yet, the Bible gives us many reasons why God elects people to salvation.
  This decision took place before we existed; the decision to elect us happened before the creation of the world.
  God elects his people according to his foreknowledge of their choice of him.

adjectiveəˈlɛktəˈlekt

usually as plural noun the elect

1(of a person) chosen or singled out.
（人）选中的，卓越的
one of the century's elect
本世纪卓越人物之一。
Example sentencesExamples
- I have no bone to pick with the counties who were of the elect but have not reached Canaan.
- These enemies are not just the rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf, or Israel, or the US, but the whole world outside the charmed circle of the elect.
- Those who do not believe in a God become separated from the elect to be defended by the Crown.
- Anything is rumoured, as if the fate of billions can be decided by an elect anointing global trade policies like once they might have approved medieval kings in Eastern Europe.
- Why should one of the elect be bothered about table manners, if cognitive ability, without virtue or civility, is the alpha and omega of human excellence?
- It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned.
- That leaves some folks, the elect, walking around with an OK rational function, and others, the damned, walking around without one.
- There was also a log cabin for dining, and on that late-September night, over a dinner of Mongolian noodles with beef, we met our fellow elect.
- They thought they had the key to the one true way and thus the religious elect should clearly be the ones who ran the governments.
- From God's perspective Christ died and his atonement is practically effective for the elect who come to know him through the cross.
- Behind the social arguments lay an unmistakable malodor of claims to a moral elect.
- Yes, I have a lot of Calvinism in my family, as recently as my grandfather, who was a member of the Plymouth Brethren and certainly believed he was a member of the elect.
- Suddenly the student becomes convinced that he is among the elect, the wise, the few who are privy to a secret, dark but terrible truth.
- As a conversionary movement, millennialism seeks to create an exclusionary circle of the elect who can read and share the signs of imminent and immanent history.
- Why do I feel like the objective of this is to give people something on which they can waste their energy and attention while the elect is deciding on important things?
- Oftentimes you'll have a tiny handful of journalists there too - but only ones from the highest echelon of the elect.
- Monica's scar is her badge of entry to the ranks of the elect.
- Today, he would be called ‘born again’; a spiritual awakening convinced him he was one of the elect, placed on earth as an instrument of God's will.
- Here's a follow-up question I wish one of the elect would ask the designated White House leakers.
- If you prefer black and white to all other colour combinations, except black and black, we welcome you to the elect.
Synonyms
the chosen, the elite, the select, the favoured
1. 1.1Christian Theology Chosen by God for salvation.
  〔基督教神学〕蒙上帝挑选（而得救）的
  Example sentencesExamples
  As Luther perceived, the Christian heart is fully aware that it continues in sin and in grace together, as a sinner and damned as such, and as a child of God already elect.
  In 1 Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul, writing by Divine inspiration tells us that he knew these men and women in the Church there were elect, chosen of God.
  The complaint is that Calvin's God is a salvation Scrooge, reluctantly doling out redemption to an elect few rather than lavishing his grace on all of humanity.
  Since He is the elect one, and the church is the elect people, we are joined to His body, we therefore are elect.
  Some people feel that because they are elect, they don't need to serve, love, and glorify God.
2. 1.2postpositive Elected to or chosen for a position but not yet in office.
  当选（而尚未就职）的
  the President-Elect
  当选总统。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Deputy mayor elect of Marlborough has called for action to prevent a local drunkard frightening people, including women and children.
  Glasgow Hawks are the champions elect of Scottish club rugby following a hard fought but ultimately convincing victory over a feisty Biggar.
  Bradford's Liberal Democrat Lord Mayor elect, a member of the authority, said they wanted people to give information about suspected wrong doing.
  The Archbishop of Canterbury elect becomes a Druid and is indignant at those who think he may be flirting with paganism.
  McHugh-Liam Russell, VP-education elect, was unavailable for comment, having mysteriously disappeared.
  The Liberal Democrat casualties included their Mayor elect.
  When Russell moved up the ladder, his colleague was promoted one rung higher and was already being seen as the chief executive elect.
  In Scarborough, the Mayor elect, who was due to take office, was defeated.
  The meeting also confirmed deputy town mayor Cllr Claire Wright as mayor elect for the next municipal year.
  The prime minister elect used his first full media interview since last night to affirm that he intended to follow through on what had become a key election promise.
  Mark is chairman elect of the Scottish Institute of Practitioners in Advertising.
  The mayor elect has been approached by regular stall holders at the Wednesday and Saturday markets expressing concern that the markets would have to be moved from the High Street.
  Democrats are already threatening to sue the government if they squeeze in a two-year term for the new Chief Executive elect.
  History repeated itself when, for the second successive year, the borough's mayor elect was ousted.
  The provincial chairperson has been nominated as premier elect of the province.
  The chairman elect, who was due to take over this year, has resigned as a director of the oil and gas explorer.
  When the Archbishop elect made his formal entrance to York Minster later in the day, his first act was to kneel in silent prayer with head bowed for more than 10 minutes.
  The special guest of honour for the evening was Patricia Metham, principal elect.
  The Scottish Cup winners - elect are, without doubt, the finest team in Scotland.
  On the other hand we have the announcement that he will offer up new hope to the Scottish economy as the chief executive elect of Scottish Enterprise.
  Synonyms
  future, -to-be, soon-to-be, designate, chosen, elected, coming, next, appointed, presumptive

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’.

词汇	elect
释义	Definition of elect in English: elect verb ɪˈlɛktəˈlɛkt 1with object Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting. 选举，推举 he was elected as councillor 他被选为政务会委员。 the members who were elected to the committee 经选举产生的委员会成员。 with object and complement they elected him leader Example sentencesExamples Let us not forget that Susilo was elected to office with an overwhelming mandate. Under Labour the first Muslims were elected to the House of Commons and appointed to the Lords. Chambers of commerce, business, school, and professional organisations are electing their leaders all over the country. Before the six months had gone by he was elected to the office of District Judge. We will also see that, by contrast, relatively few women are elected to public offices. If there is any reason why he should not hold a public office it should have been raised when he was first elected to the council. It is only recently that we have begun to see men and women freely elected to public office. Leong yesterday secured a majority of votes to be elected as the company's new chairman. After returning to Nigeria he was elected to the Northern Region House of Assembly. What an MP got up to once he or she was elected to office was a different matter, however. It is not unheard of that someone in his position could be elected as leader. The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote and may not be re-elected. The lesson appears to be that crime does pay, especially if you can get elected to public office. Students from classes four to 10 cast their votes to elect their student leaders. Mr Coles was elected to the position at the annual general meeting in July just gone. He has asked to vote positively to elect members who would guide the destiny of the nation for the next five years. I presented all the names that were elected to Cabinet office, that is where the delay is. He was unanimously elected to the position at the first meeting of the new board. Athletes may ask themselves why people like this are still being elected to these positions. Voters knew what they were voting for when they elected me for a second time in 1999. Synonyms vote (for), vote in, choose (by ballot), cast one's vote for pick, select, return, appoint, put in, put in power, opt for, decide on, settle on, fix on, plump for 1.1Christian Theology (of God) choose (someone) in preference to others for salvation. 〔基督教神学〕（上帝）挑选（某人）（而使其灵魂永远得救） Example sentencesExamples For the God who elects to salvation is ‘not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance’. Why did God elect only a portion of those who have lived? This decision took place before we existed; the decision to elect us happened before the creation of the world. Yet, the Bible gives us many reasons why God elects people to salvation. God elects his people according to his foreknowledge of their choice of him. 2with infinitive Opt for or choose to do something. 作出选择 more people elected to work at home 更多的人选择在家中工作。 Example sentencesExamples The University of Massachusetts elects to keep its Minuteman mascot despite citing ‘gender, firearms and ethnicity issues’ as reasons to abandon it. On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved. A qualifying farmer may elect for a dependent spouse to participate on the scheme. In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages. Plan ahead if you elect to choose to make a handgun part of your personal defense plans. Some experts claim it's better to elect for a controlled cut, while others say tearing is preferable as the healing time's quicker. If you like a short sortie you can choose one, on the other hand if you like a brisk climb you may elect for the Masshill climb. Which means that by clicking ‘next’ when confronted with the first four unchecked boxes, the user unwittingly elects to receive sports, entertainment, music and new service announcements. McGow is proud of the fact that so many parents stay with the centre, choosing when to elect to have support. This issue underlies objections to legal limitations on a woman's right to elect for abortion. In the same way, man must also elect Christ to stand as his representative before God and to atone for his sin. While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets. If he elects to be chosen for the Kiwis, then he obviously forgoes any opportunity to represent NSW in State of Origin. The funny thing is that even if you do elect for lower coverage, you wind up not saving that much money. If he chooses neither of the above options and elects to run a full campaign through November, he will only do his values harm. Opening pre-season fixtures usually provide more questions than answers - especially when the manager elects to play a team largely made up of youngsters, trialists and squad players. That clause allows creditors the choice to elect for this legislation to apply to contracts that existed prior to this law coming into force. A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years. For our purposes, the thing to notice is that a patient's competence to choose between standard therapies, whether or not he or she elects to use these facilities, depends upon more than choosing that which is the most reasonable. A competent patient, properly advised by a doctor, may elect to choose a form of treatment which is not the one that the doctor would recommend. adjective ɪˈlɛktəˈlɛkt usually as plural noun the elect 1(of a person) chosen or singled out. （人）选中的，卓越的 one of the century's elect 本世纪卓越人物之一。 Example sentencesExamples Monica's scar is her badge of entry to the ranks of the elect. If you prefer black and white to all other colour combinations, except black and black, we welcome you to the elect. Here's a follow-up question I wish one of the elect would ask the designated White House leakers. There was also a log cabin for dining, and on that late-September night, over a dinner of Mongolian noodles with beef, we met our fellow elect. They thought they had the key to the one true way and thus the religious elect should clearly be the ones who ran the governments. Anything is rumoured, as if the fate of billions can be decided by an elect anointing global trade policies like once they might have approved medieval kings in Eastern Europe. It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned. I have no bone to pick with the counties who were of the elect but have not reached Canaan. Suddenly the student becomes convinced that he is among the elect, the wise, the few who are privy to a secret, dark but terrible truth. From God's perspective Christ died and his atonement is practically effective for the elect who come to know him through the cross. Why should one of the elect be bothered about table manners, if cognitive ability, without virtue or civility, is the alpha and omega of human excellence? Yes, I have a lot of Calvinism in my family, as recently as my grandfather, who was a member of the Plymouth Brethren and certainly believed he was a member of the elect. Oftentimes you'll have a tiny handful of journalists there too - but only ones from the highest echelon of the elect. Those who do not believe in a God become separated from the elect to be defended by the Crown. Today, he would be called ‘born again’; a spiritual awakening convinced him he was one of the elect, placed on earth as an instrument of God's will. These enemies are not just the rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf, or Israel, or the US, but the whole world outside the charmed circle of the elect. That leaves some folks, the elect, walking around with an OK rational function, and others, the damned, walking around without one. Behind the social arguments lay an unmistakable malodor of claims to a moral elect. As a conversionary movement, millennialism seeks to create an exclusionary circle of the elect who can read and share the signs of imminent and immanent history. Why do I feel like the objective of this is to give people something on which they can waste their energy and attention while the elect is deciding on important things? Synonyms the chosen, the elite, the select, the favoured the crème de la crème, A-list 1.1Christian Theology Chosen by God for salvation. 〔基督教神学〕蒙上帝挑选（而得救）的 success was a sign that they were one of the elect the elect group of saints which was predestined for heaven Example sentencesExamples As Luther perceived, the Christian heart is fully aware that it continues in sin and in grace together, as a sinner and damned as such, and as a child of God already elect. In 1 Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul, writing by Divine inspiration tells us that he knew these men and women in the Church there were elect, chosen of God. Some people feel that because they are elect, they don't need to serve, love, and glorify God. Since He is the elect one, and the church is the elect people, we are joined to His body, we therefore are elect. The complaint is that Calvin's God is a salvation Scrooge, reluctantly doling out redemption to an elect few rather than lavishing his grace on all of humanity. 1.2postpositive Chosen for a position but not yet in office. 当选（而尚未就职）的 the President-Elect 当选总统。 Example sentencesExamples On the other hand we have the announcement that he will offer up new hope to the Scottish economy as the chief executive elect of Scottish Enterprise. The Archbishop of Canterbury elect becomes a Druid and is indignant at those who think he may be flirting with paganism. Mark is chairman elect of the Scottish Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. The chairman elect, who was due to take over this year, has resigned as a director of the oil and gas explorer. When Russell moved up the ladder, his colleague was promoted one rung higher and was already being seen as the chief executive elect. The Deputy mayor elect of Marlborough has called for action to prevent a local drunkard frightening people, including women and children. The prime minister elect used his first full media interview since last night to affirm that he intended to follow through on what had become a key election promise. Glasgow Hawks are the champions elect of Scottish club rugby following a hard fought but ultimately convincing victory over a feisty Biggar. When the Archbishop elect made his formal entrance to York Minster later in the day, his first act was to kneel in silent prayer with head bowed for more than 10 minutes. The Scottish Cup winners - elect are, without doubt, the finest team in Scotland. Democrats are already threatening to sue the government if they squeeze in a two-year term for the new Chief Executive elect. The meeting also confirmed deputy town mayor Cllr Claire Wright as mayor elect for the next municipal year. History repeated itself when, for the second successive year, the borough's mayor elect was ousted. McHugh-Liam Russell, VP-education elect, was unavailable for comment, having mysteriously disappeared. The special guest of honour for the evening was Patricia Metham, principal elect. The provincial chairperson has been nominated as premier elect of the province. In Scarborough, the Mayor elect, who was due to take office, was defeated. The Liberal Democrat casualties included their Mayor elect. The mayor elect has been approached by regular stall holders at the Wednesday and Saturday markets expressing concern that the markets would have to be moved from the High Street. Bradford's Liberal Democrat Lord Mayor elect, a member of the authority, said they wanted people to give information about suspected wrong doing. Synonyms future, -to-be, soon-to-be, designate, chosen, elected, coming, next, appointed, presumptive Origin Late Middle English: from Latin elect- 'picked out', from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) 'out' + legere 'to pick'. elegant from Late Middle English: These days, someone elegant will generally be well dressed, but the basic idea behind the word is of being discerning and making careful choices. It comes from Old French élégant or Latin elegans, from eligere ‘to choose or select’, which was the origin of elect (Late Middle English), eligible (Late Middle English), and elite (late 18th century). Rhymes affect, bisect, bull-necked, collect, confect, connect, correct, defect, deflect, deject, detect, direct, effect, eject, erect, expect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, misdirect, neglect, object, perfect, project, prospect, protect, reflect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, transect, unchecked, Utrecht Definition of elect in US English: elect verbəˈlɛktəˈlekt [with object] 1Choose (someone) to hold public office or some other position by voting. 选举，推举 the members who were elected to the committee 经选举产生的委员会成员。 with object and infinitive they elected him leader Example sentencesExamples What an MP got up to once he or she was elected to office was a different matter, however. The lesson appears to be that crime does pay, especially if you can get elected to public office. After returning to Nigeria he was elected to the Northern Region House of Assembly. Voters knew what they were voting for when they elected me for a second time in 1999. Before the six months had gone by he was elected to the office of District Judge. Students from classes four to 10 cast their votes to elect their student leaders. It is not unheard of that someone in his position could be elected as leader. Chambers of commerce, business, school, and professional organisations are electing their leaders all over the country. Mr Coles was elected to the position at the annual general meeting in July just gone. He was unanimously elected to the position at the first meeting of the new board. Leong yesterday secured a majority of votes to be elected as the company's new chairman. He has asked to vote positively to elect members who would guide the destiny of the nation for the next five years. It is only recently that we have begun to see men and women freely elected to public office. We will also see that, by contrast, relatively few women are elected to public offices. I presented all the names that were elected to Cabinet office, that is where the delay is. If there is any reason why he should not hold a public office it should have been raised when he was first elected to the council. Athletes may ask themselves why people like this are still being elected to these positions. The president is elected to a four-year term by popular vote and may not be re-elected. Let us not forget that Susilo was elected to office with an overwhelming mandate. Under Labour the first Muslims were elected to the House of Commons and appointed to the Lords. Synonyms vote, vote for, vote in, choose, choose by ballot, cast one's vote for 1.1 Opt for or choose to do something. 作出选择 freshman year you could elect Industrial Arts no object more people elected to work at home 更多的人选择在家中工作。 Example sentencesExamples In the same way, man must also elect Christ to stand as his representative before God and to atone for his sin. That clause allows creditors the choice to elect for this legislation to apply to contracts that existed prior to this law coming into force. A full-time farmer may elect for income averaging only if he was charged to tax on his farming profits for the two immediately preceding tax years. If he elects to be chosen for the Kiwis, then he obviously forgoes any opportunity to represent NSW in State of Origin. For our purposes, the thing to notice is that a patient's competence to choose between standard therapies, whether or not he or she elects to use these facilities, depends upon more than choosing that which is the most reasonable. If he chooses neither of the above options and elects to run a full campaign through November, he will only do his values harm. In that discussion, I also explained that if they desired they could elect for non-contestable scrummages. Which means that by clicking ‘next’ when confronted with the first four unchecked boxes, the user unwittingly elects to receive sports, entertainment, music and new service announcements. A qualifying farmer may elect for a dependent spouse to participate on the scheme. Some experts claim it's better to elect for a controlled cut, while others say tearing is preferable as the healing time's quicker. Plan ahead if you elect to choose to make a handgun part of your personal defense plans. This issue underlies objections to legal limitations on a woman's right to elect for abortion. A competent patient, properly advised by a doctor, may elect to choose a form of treatment which is not the one that the doctor would recommend. Opening pre-season fixtures usually provide more questions than answers - especially when the manager elects to play a team largely made up of youngsters, trialists and squad players. On the other hand, if you elect for the more expensive hardware option, much less CPU power is needed and often both the picture and sound quality are greatly improved. McGow is proud of the fact that so many parents stay with the centre, choosing when to elect to have support. The University of Massachusetts elects to keep its Minuteman mascot despite citing ‘gender, firearms and ethnicity issues’ as reasons to abandon it. The funny thing is that even if you do elect for lower coverage, you wind up not saving that much money. If you like a short sortie you can choose one, on the other hand if you like a brisk climb you may elect for the Masshill climb. While some may chose to spend that season lazing beside rivers and quaffing champagne, the more discerning amongst us elect for the greensward and the thrill of clattering wickets. 1.2Christian Theology (of God) choose (someone) in preference to others for salvation. 〔基督教神学〕（上帝）挑选（某人）（而使其灵魂永远得救） Example sentencesExamples Why did God elect only a portion of those who have lived? For the God who elects to salvation is ‘not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance’. Yet, the Bible gives us many reasons why God elects people to salvation. This decision took place before we existed; the decision to elect us happened before the creation of the world. God elects his people according to his foreknowledge of their choice of him. adjectiveəˈlɛktəˈlekt usually as plural noun the elect 1(of a person) chosen or singled out. （人）选中的，卓越的 one of the century's elect 本世纪卓越人物之一。 Example sentencesExamples I have no bone to pick with the counties who were of the elect but have not reached Canaan. These enemies are not just the rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf, or Israel, or the US, but the whole world outside the charmed circle of the elect. Those who do not believe in a God become separated from the elect to be defended by the Crown. Anything is rumoured, as if the fate of billions can be decided by an elect anointing global trade policies like once they might have approved medieval kings in Eastern Europe. Why should one of the elect be bothered about table manners, if cognitive ability, without virtue or civility, is the alpha and omega of human excellence? It's an almost religious process of divine selection - the elect and the damned. That leaves some folks, the elect, walking around with an OK rational function, and others, the damned, walking around without one. There was also a log cabin for dining, and on that late-September night, over a dinner of Mongolian noodles with beef, we met our fellow elect. They thought they had the key to the one true way and thus the religious elect should clearly be the ones who ran the governments. From God's perspective Christ died and his atonement is practically effective for the elect who come to know him through the cross. Behind the social arguments lay an unmistakable malodor of claims to a moral elect. Yes, I have a lot of Calvinism in my family, as recently as my grandfather, who was a member of the Plymouth Brethren and certainly believed he was a member of the elect. Suddenly the student becomes convinced that he is among the elect, the wise, the few who are privy to a secret, dark but terrible truth. As a conversionary movement, millennialism seeks to create an exclusionary circle of the elect who can read and share the signs of imminent and immanent history. Why do I feel like the objective of this is to give people something on which they can waste their energy and attention while the elect is deciding on important things? Oftentimes you'll have a tiny handful of journalists there too - but only ones from the highest echelon of the elect. Monica's scar is her badge of entry to the ranks of the elect. Today, he would be called ‘born again’; a spiritual awakening convinced him he was one of the elect, placed on earth as an instrument of God's will. Here's a follow-up question I wish one of the elect would ask the designated White House leakers. If you prefer black and white to all other colour combinations, except black and black, we welcome you to the elect. Synonyms the chosen, the elite, the select, the favoured 1.1Christian Theology Chosen by God for salvation. 〔基督教神学〕蒙上帝挑选（而得救）的 Example sentencesExamples As Luther perceived, the Christian heart is fully aware that it continues in sin and in grace together, as a sinner and damned as such, and as a child of God already elect. In 1 Thessalonians, the Apostle Paul, writing by Divine inspiration tells us that he knew these men and women in the Church there were elect, chosen of God. The complaint is that Calvin's God is a salvation Scrooge, reluctantly doling out redemption to an elect few rather than lavishing his grace on all of humanity. Since He is the elect one, and the church is the elect people, we are joined to His body, we therefore are elect. Some people feel that because they are elect, they don't need to serve, love, and glorify God. 1.2postpositive Elected to or chosen for a position but not yet in office. 当选（而尚未就职）的 the President-Elect 当选总统。 Example sentencesExamples The Deputy mayor elect of Marlborough has called for action to prevent a local drunkard frightening people, including women and children. Glasgow Hawks are the champions elect of Scottish club rugby following a hard fought but ultimately convincing victory over a feisty Biggar. Bradford's Liberal Democrat Lord Mayor elect, a member of the authority, said they wanted people to give information about suspected wrong doing. The Archbishop of Canterbury elect becomes a Druid and is indignant at those who think he may be flirting with paganism. McHugh-Liam Russell, VP-education elect, was unavailable for comment, having mysteriously disappeared. The Liberal Democrat casualties included their Mayor elect. When Russell moved up the ladder, his colleague was promoted one rung higher and was already being seen as the chief executive elect. In Scarborough, the Mayor elect, who was due to take office, was defeated. The meeting also confirmed deputy town mayor Cllr Claire Wright as mayor elect for the next municipal year. The prime minister elect used his first full media interview since last night to affirm that he intended to follow through on what had become a key election promise. Mark is chairman elect of the Scottish Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. The mayor elect has been approached by regular stall holders at the Wednesday and Saturday markets expressing concern that the markets would have to be moved from the High Street. Democrats are already threatening to sue the government if they squeeze in a two-year term for the new Chief Executive elect. History repeated itself when, for the second successive year, the borough's mayor elect was ousted. The provincial chairperson has been nominated as premier elect of the province. The chairman elect, who was due to take over this year, has resigned as a director of the oil and gas explorer. When the Archbishop elect made his formal entrance to York Minster later in the day, his first act was to kneel in silent prayer with head bowed for more than 10 minutes. The special guest of honour for the evening was Patricia Metham, principal elect. The Scottish Cup winners - elect are, without doubt, the finest team in Scotland. On the other hand we have the announcement that he will offer up new hope to the Scottish economy as the chief executive elect of Scottish Enterprise. Synonyms future, -to-be, soon-to-be, designate, chosen, elected, coming, next, appointed, presumptive Origin Late Middle English: from Latin elect- ‘picked out’, from the verb eligere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + legere ‘to pick’.
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