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Definition of 'pick'Noun
( en-noun)
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
A choice; ability to choose.
* Lord Lytton
- France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
(basketball) A screen.
(lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
(American football) An interception.
(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
(baseball) A pickoff.
(music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
(obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
- Take down my buckler and grind the pick on 't.
(printing|dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
- (MacKellar)
(art|painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
- so many picks to an inch
Derived terms
* pickaxe
* take one's pick
* toothpick
Verb
( en-verb)
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- Don't pick at that scab.
- He picked his nose.
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
- It's time to pick the tomatoes.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- She picked flowers in the meadow.
- to pick feathers from a fowl
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- to pick rags
To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- to pick''' the teeth; to '''pick''' a bone; to '''pick''' a goose; to '''pick a pocket
* Shakespeare
- Did you pick Master Slender's purse?
* Cowper
- He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.
To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
(cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
- He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.
(music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- He picked a tune on his banjo.
To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
* Dryden
- Why stand'st thou picking ? Is thy palate sore?
To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
To steal; to pilfer.
* Book of Common Prayer
- to keep my hands from picking and stealing
(obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
* Shakespeare
- as high as I could pick my lance
(dated) 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.
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
Derived terms
* a bone to pick
* picky
* pickpocket
* nitpick
* pick and choose
( rel-mid3)
* pick 'em
* nose-picking
* pick somebody's brain
* pick up
* pick up on
( rel-mid3)
* pick up where one left
* pickin' and grinnin'
* ripe for the picking
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