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What's The Definition Of Pick?
[n] the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick"
[n] a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; "he was called for setting an illegal pick" [n] a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks" [n] a thin sharp implement used for picking; "he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks" [n] a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument [n] the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [n] the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" [n] the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War" [n] the quantity of a crop that is harvested; "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years" [v] remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, as of chickens or fruit; "Clean the turkey" [v] remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone" [v] select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"; "We had to pick through a lot of data" [v] harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother" [v] eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just picks at the food" [v] pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" [v] hit lightly with a picking motion [v] look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [v] attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice" [v] provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel" [v] pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" [v] pilfer or rob; "pick pockets" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pick: beak | blame | break up | choice | choice | clean | cream | cull | filling | find fault | foot | nibble | option | peck | pickax | pickaxe | picking | piece | plectron | plectrum | pluck | plunk | selection | selection | weft | woof Related Terms | Find terms related to Pick: abuse | accelerate | accost | accumulate | acquire | adz | aggravate | alternativity | amass | annoy | apprehend | arrest | assemble | ax | badger | bait | be at | beak | become acquainted with | bedevil | beset | best | bother | bread knife | bring in | bring together | bristle | browbeat | brown off | brush | bug | bully | bullyrag | bunt | burn up | bushwhacker | bust | butcher knife | buy | call for | carp at | carving knife | catch | champion | chaser | chisel | chivy | choice | choose | choose out | choosing | chosen | chuck | clean up | cleaver | clipper | clippers | collar | collect | come by | come down with | contract | co-optation | co-option | cream | criticize | crop | crop herbs | cull | cut | dab | dagger | decide between | decision | devil | dig | dig up | discern | discompose | discriminate | distemper | distinguish | disturb | dog | elect | election | elite | 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pay | pick apart | pick off | pick out | pick over | pick up | pierce | pleasure | provoke | pull | pull off | pull together | receive | remove | rob | sampling | see | select | sieve out | strike | take | take | take away | textile | thread | toothpick | twang | tweak | volition | vote | voting | way | weave | willing | withdraw | yarn Pick In Webster's Dictionary \Pick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to
Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F.
piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch} to throw.]
1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]
As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak.
2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with
anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;
to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points;
as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.
5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to
pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the
stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with
the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to
pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak.
He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an
old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper.
7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable;
to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; --
often with out. ``One man picked out of ten thousand.''
--Shak.
8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to
collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often
with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up
information.
9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
{To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.
{To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}.
{To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's
Utopia).
{To pick off}.
(a) To pluck; to remove by picking.
(b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters
pick off the enemy.
{To pick out}.
(a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark
stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
(b) To select from a number or quantity.
{To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence
[Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.
{To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel
intentionally.
{To pick up}.
(a) To take up, as with the fingers.
(b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;
as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.
\Pick\, v. i. 1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore? --Dryden. 2. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care. 3. To steal; to pilfer. ``To keep my hands from picking and stealing.'' --Book of Com. Prayer. {To pick up}, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in health or business. [Colloq. U.S.] \Pick\, n. [F. pic a pickax, a pick. See {Pick}, and cf. {Pike}.] 1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. 2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. 3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. [Obs.] ``Take down my buckler . . . and grind the pick on 't.'' --Beau. & Fl. 4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. France and Russia have the pick of our stables. --Ld. Lytton. 5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock. 6. (Print.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. --MacKellar. 7. (Painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. 8. (Weawing) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. {Pick dressing} (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. {Pick hammer}, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners. |
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