All related terms of 'picked'

If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one.

selected with great care , as for a special job or purpose; chosen

to raise petty objections or concern oneself with insignificant details

If you pick at the food that you are eating, you eat only very small amounts of it.

If someone picks off people or aircraft, they shoot them down one by one, aiming carefully at them from a distance .

If someone picks on you, they repeatedly criticize you unfairly or treat you unkindly.

If you pick out someone or something, you recognize them when it is difficult to see them, for example because they are among a large group.

When you pick something up , you lift it up.

to pick (fruit or vegetables ) by hand

If someone is hand-picked , they are very carefully chosen by someone in authority for a particular purpose or a particular job.

If you pick over a quantity of things, you examine them carefully, for example to reject the ones you do not want .

If someone cherry-picks people or things, they choose the best ones from a group of them, often in a way that other people consider unfair .

the light balanced arm of a record player that carries the wires from the cartridge to the preamplifier

the light balanced arm of a record player that carries the wires from the cartridge to the preamplifier