Pick
[pɪk]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; 'he was called for setting an illegal pick'.
(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'.
(noun.) a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material; 'he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks'.
(noun.) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument.
(verb.) remove in small bits; 'pick meat from a bone'.
(verb.) select carefully from a group; 'She finally picked her successor'; 'He picked his way carefully'.
(verb.) look for and gather; 'pick mushrooms'; 'pick flowers'.
(verb.) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; 'Pick open the ice'.
(verb.) provoke; 'pick a fight or a quarrel'.
(verb.) pilfer or rob; 'pick pockets'.
安尼塔整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v.) To throw; to pitch.
(v.) 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.
(v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
(v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) To trim.
(v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
(v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
(v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.
(n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
(n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
(n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
(n.) 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.
哈迪編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Pluck, pull off, pick off.[2]. Open (as a lock).[3]. Choose, select, cull, single out, pick out, fix upon, pitch upon.[4]. Clean, cleanse.
n. [1]. Pickaxe.[2]. Choice, selection.
校對:蒂米
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Choose, cull, select, gather, pluck, eliminate, enucleate, extract, glean
ANT:Reject, discard, repudiate, relegate, bunch, grasp, clutch
杰西卡校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to prick with a sharp-pointed instrument: to peck as a bird: to pierce: to open with a pointed instrument as a lock: to pluck or gather as flowers &c.: to separate or pull apart: to clean with the teeth: to gather: to choose: to select: to call: to seek as a quarrel: to steal.—v.i. to do anything carefully: to eat by morsels.—n. any sharp-pointed instrument esp. for loosening and breaking up hard soil &c.: a picklock: foul matter collecting on printing-types &c.: right or opportunity of first choice.—n. Pick′-cheese the blue titmouse: the fruit of the mallow.—adj. Picked (pikt) selected hence the choicest or best: having spines or prickles sharp-pointed.—ns. Pick′edness; Pick′er one who picks or gathers up: one who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates: a pilferer; Pick′ing the act of picking selecting gathering pilfering: that which is left to be picked: dabbing in stone-working: the final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs &c.: removing defects from electrotype plates; Pick′lock an instrument for picking or opening locks; Pick′-me-up a stimulating drink; Pick′pocket one who picks or steals from other people's pockets; Pick′-purse one who steals the purse or from the purse of another.—adj. Pick′some given to picking and choosing.—n. Pick′-thank an officious person who does what he is not desired to do in order to gain favour: a flatterer: a parasite.—v.t. to gain favour by unworthy means.—Pick a hole in one's coat to find fault with one; Pick a quarrel to find an occasion of quarrelling; Pick at to find fault with; Pick fault to seek occasions of fault-finding; Pick oakum to make oakum by untwisting old ropes; Pick off to aim at and kill or wound as with a rifle; Pick one's way to move carefully; Pick out to make out: to mark with spots of colour &c.; Pick to pieces to tear asunder: to damage as character; Pick up to improve gradually: to gain strength bit by bit: to take into a vehicle or into one's company: to get as if by chance.—adj. gathered together by chance.
杜安整理
例句/造句/用法:
- I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Give them to me and I'll pick them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I've got two shots left, Gurt, so, if that boat comes too near, I'll try to pick off one of the rowers. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I enjoy the art of all sorts here immensely; but I suppose if I could pick my enjoyment to pieces I should find it made up of many different threads. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- It was good logic, good, earthly, feminine logic, and if it satisfied her I certainly could pick no flaws in it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Pick a place that is safe, not too close and from where you can see well and comfortably. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Livius got out of the carriage, and picked the man up, to ascertain that he was alive, as he fell without uttering a groan. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- As our visitor concluded, Holmes sprang up without a word, handed me my hat, picked his own from the table, and followed Dr. Trevelyan to the door. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Sherlock Holmes picked them up one by one, and laid them along the edge of the table. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Simpson in his flight had dropped his cravat, and Straker had picked it up--with some idea, perhaps, that he might use it in securing the horse's leg. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- I picked her up and put her in, and there she has been ever since. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Piani picked up Aymo's cap where it had rolled down the embankment and put it over his face. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- When cocoanuts are picked, however, they have still another covering-an outer rind which has a smooth surface. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the woods picking flowers. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Then it began to rise, moving straight ahead again for three or four hundred feet, the propellers picking up their former rate. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The stranger, however, picking up her cap with an air of gallantry, interposed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- She went with Hermione along the bank of the pond, talking of beautiful, soothing things, picking the gentle cowslips. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I was picking blackhearts, and went further than I meant. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- She picks like de debil and all his angels! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- She returned wearily to the thought of Percy Gryce, as a wayfarer picks up a heavy load and toils on after a brief rest. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The rat-faced one now called to the men who had remained at the boat, and they came slowly up the bank carrying picks and shovels. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Mr. Guppy picks up his hat and rises. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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