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PICK
choice, selection, option, pick
(noun) the act of choosing or selecting; “your choice of colors was unfortunate”; “you can take your pick”
pick
(noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one’s body; “he was called for setting an illegal pick”
pick, pickax, pickaxe
(noun) 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”
pick
(noun) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material; “he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks”
pick, plectrum, plectron
(noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
woof, weft, filling, pick
(noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
choice, pick, selection
(noun) the person or thing chosen or selected; “he was my pick for mayor”
cream, pick
(noun) the best people or things in a group; “the cream of England’s young men were killed in the Great War”
picking, pick
(noun) 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”
clean, pick
(verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; “Clean the turkey”
pick
(verb) remove in small bits; “pick meat from a bone”
pick
(verb) select carefully from a group; “She finally picked her successor”; “He picked his way carefully”
blame, find fault, pick
(verb) harass with constant criticism; “Don’t always pick on your little brother”
nibble, pick, piece
(verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of; “He pieced at the sandwich all morning”; “She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles”
peck, pick, beak
(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion
pick, pluck, cull
(verb) look for and gather; “pick mushrooms”; “pick flowers”
pick, break up
(verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; “Pick open the ice”
pluck, plunk, pick
(verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; “he plucked the strings of his mandolin”
pick
(verb) provoke; “pick a fight or a quarrel”
foot, pick
(verb) pay for something; “pick up the tab”; “pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages”; “foot the bill”
pick
(verb) pilfer or rob; “pick pockets”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pick (plural picks)
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
A choice; ability to choose.
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
(basketball) A screen.
(lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
(American football) An interception.
(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
(baseball) A pickoff.
(music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
(obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
(printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
(art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
Verb
pick (third-person singular simple present picks, present participle picking, simple past and past participle picked)
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
(transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
(cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
(music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
To steal; to pilfer.
• Book of Common Prayer
(obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
(dated) 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.
(ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
(basketball) To screen.
Etymology
Proper noun
Pick (plural Picks)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pick is the 9451st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3442 individuals. Pick is most common among White (89.4%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Pick, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picked; p. pr. & vb. n. Picking.] Etym: [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.(c) to acquire (an infectious disease); as, to pick up a cold on the airplane. (d) To meet (a person) and induce to accompany one; as, to pick up a date at the mall. [See several other defs in MW10]
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. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: 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)
Definition: That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
8. (Weawing)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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