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单词 picker
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picker

noun

pick·​er ˈpi-kər How to pronounce picker (audio)
: one that picks: such as
a
: a worker who picks something (such as crops)
b
: a tool, implement, or machine used in picking something
c
: a musician who picks a stringed instrument (such as a banjo)

Synonyms

  • chooser
  • namer
  • selector
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Example Sentences

a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Recent Examples on the Web There's a new photo (and video) picker built into Android 13. Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022 Littrell, a picker at the warehouse, has been the lead organizer and main public face of the union drive, having been quoted about it in the Louisville Courier Journal, the Guardian and Bloomberg. Eli M. Rosenberg, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2022 Instead, Simmons, in his mid-50s, was given a harder floor picker job for $12 an hour, on his feet loading boxes headed for Kaiser Permanente hospitals. Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022 Crews met the cherry-picker at a nearby bridge, where firefighters helped the two workers get out, Alkins said. Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022 Alkins said the cherry-picker with the two workers in it was able to drive forward but could not move up or down. Matt Yan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022 Wood is known as a star stock-picker, especially in innovative tech companies, and her Ark manages about $60 billion in assets, according to Forbes. Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 2022 Still another featured an Asian man in a rice-picker hat pulling a rickshaw. NBC News, 20 Apr. 2022 By the latter’s, the Eagles were the better bean-picker-uppers by a margin of twenty per cent. Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

picker

noun

as in selector
someone with the right or responsibility for making a selection a book reviewer who is one of the pickers of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • selector
  • voter
  • chooser
  • namer
  • elector
  • nominator
  • decider
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