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Verb: pick pik- Select carefully from a group
"She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully" - Look for and gather
"pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
- pluck, cull - Harass with constant criticism
"Don't always pick on your little brother"
- blame, find fault - Provoke
"pick a fight or a quarrel" - Remove in small bits
"pick meat from a bone" - Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
- clean - Pilfer or rob
"pick pockets" - Pay for something
"pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"
- foot - Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
- pluck, plunk - Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
"Pick open the ice"
- break up - Hit lightly with a picking motion
- peck, beak - Eat intermittently; take small bites of
- nibble, piece
Noun: pick pik- The person or thing chosen or selected
"he was my pick for mayor"
- choice, selection - The quantity of a crop that is harvested
"it was the biggest peach pick in years"
- picking - The best people or things in a group
- cream - The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- woof, weft, filling - A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- plectrum, plectron - A thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
"he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks" - 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"
- pickax [US], pickaxe - A basketball manoeuvre; obstructing an opponent with one's body
"he was called for setting an illegal pick" - The act of choosing or selecting
"you can take your pick"
- choice, selection, option
Sounds like: pic Derived forms: picking, picked, picks See also: pick off, pick over, pick up, picker, picking, pickings Type of: action, basketball play, call forth, choose, collect, criticise [Brit], criticize, deciding, decision making, device, draw, eat, edge tool, elite, élite [Brit], elite group, evoke, force, garner, gather, hand tool, kick up, knock, output, pay, pick apart, pick out, pierce, production, provoke, pull, pull together, remove, rob, select, strike, take, take away, thread, withdraw, yarn, yield Part of: cloth, fabric, material, textile, weave Encyclopedia: Pick |