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

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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 9451^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3442 individuals. Pick is most common among White (89.4%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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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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