動詞
喺一大班人、物件入面,根據某啲條件去揀一個 to filter; to choose somebody or something among a group based on certain conditions, and eliminate others
老師會喺班入面篩選出一個同學參加比賽。
老师会喺班入面筛选出一个同学参加比赛。
lou5 si1 wui5 hai2 baan1 jap6 min6 sai1 syun2 ceot1 jat1 go3 tung4 hok6 caam1 gaa1 bei2 coi3. The teacher will choose one student in the class to join the competition.
Definitions (Wiktionary)
verb, figuratively
to select (by filtering out the unwanted); to filter; to screen (for)
Zheng Yili […] selected 26 principal roots of Chinese characters and arranged them on the 26 letter keys according to the order of the three correspondence pairs, "héng and shù, piě and nà, wān and guǎi", the six basic strokes of Chinese characters […]