Pick

[pɪk]

Definition

(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'.

Checked by Anita--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Edited by Hardy

Synonyms and Synonymous

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.

Editor: Timmy

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Choose, cull, select, gather, pluck, eliminate, enucleate, extract, glean

ANT:Reject, discard, repudiate, relegate, bunch, grasp, clutch

Edited by Jessica

Definition

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.

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