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Pick

verb

(past & past part. picked; pres. part. picking)

1.

Select carefully from a group. "He picked his way carefully"

2.

Look for and gather. Synonyms: cull, pluck. "Pick flowers"

3.

Harass with constant criticism. Synonyms: blame, find fault.

4.

Provoke.

5.

Remove in small bits.

6.

Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits. Synonym: clean.

7.

Pilfer or rob.

8.

Pay for something. Synonym: foot. "Pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" , "Foot the bill"

9.

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion. Synonyms: pluck, plunk.

10.

Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example. Synonym: break up.

11.

Hit lightly with a picking motion. Synonyms: beak, peck.

12.

Eat intermittently; take small bites of. Synonyms: nibble, piece. "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

noun

1.

The person or thing chosen or selected. Synonyms: choice, selection.

2.

The quantity of a crop that is harvested. Synonym: picking. "It was the biggest peach pick in years"

3.

The best people or things in a group. Synonym: cream.

4.

The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving. Synonyms: filling, weft, woof.

5.

A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument. Synonyms: plectron, plectrum.

6.

A thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material.

7.

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends. Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe.

8.

A basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body.

9.

The act of choosing or selecting. Synonyms: choice, option, selection. "You can take your pick"

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"Pick" Quotes from Famous Books

... as close to the wind as possible. The weather was clear, and at 8 o'clock we sighted the mainland, with Dickson's Island ahead. It had been our intention to run in and anchor here, in order to put letters for home under a cairn, Captain Wiggins having promised to pick them up on his way to the Yenisei. But in the meantime the wind had fallen: it was a favorable chance, and time was precious. So we gave up sending our post, and continued ...

— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen

... pick up the papers in connection with Stener's case, satisfied that he had given the financiers no chance to say he had not given due heed to their plea in Cowperwood's behalf and yet certain that the politicians would be pleased that he had ...

— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... casts beyond the moon, and Churms is the only man he puts in trust with his daughter; and, I'll warrant, the old churl would take it upon his salvation that he will persuade her to marry Peter Plod-all. But I will make a fool of Peter Plod-all; I'll look him in the face, and pick his purse, whilst Churms cosen him of his wench, and my old grandsire Holdfast of his daughter: and if he can do so, I'll teach him a trick to cosen him of his gold too. Now, for Sophos, let him wear the willow garland, and play the melancholy malcontent, and pluck his hat down ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... an old acquaintance, just as you can often recognize a boy friend by his walk or the sound of his voice, without seeing his face. And what a new joy in life there is for anybody that really knows the birds about him. He can pick from the medley of bird songs the notes of the individual singers; he knows when to look for old friends of the year before; no countryside is ever lonely for him, for he finds birds everywhere and knows that any moment ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... groan about. Mrs. Kump was lamenting that she couldn't go out to pick any berries this year and so will miss her jam. Let's go blackberrying to-morrow morning, if the boys will go along; we can get home before noon and I'll make her a jar ...

— Peggy-Alone • Mary Agnes Byrne

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