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Pick

verb

(past & past part. picked; pres. part. picking)

1.

Select carefully from a group. "He picked his way carefully"

2.

Look for and gather. Synonyms: cull, pluck. "Pick flowers"

3.

Harass with constant criticism. Synonyms: blame, find fault.

4.

Provoke.

5.

Remove in small bits.

6.

Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits. Synonym: clean.

7.

Pilfer or rob.

8.

Pay for something. Synonym: foot. "Pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" , "Foot the bill"

9.

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion. Synonyms: pluck, plunk.

10.

Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example. Synonym: break up.

11.

Hit lightly with a picking motion. Synonyms: beak, peck.

12.

Eat intermittently; take small bites of. Synonyms: nibble, piece. "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

noun

1.

The person or thing chosen or selected. Synonyms: choice, selection.

2.

The quantity of a crop that is harvested. Synonym: picking. "It was the biggest peach pick in years"

3.

The best people or things in a group. Synonym: cream.

4.

The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving. Synonyms: filling, weft, woof.

5.

A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument. Synonyms: plectron, plectrum.

6.

A thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material.

7.

A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends. Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe.

8.

A basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body.

9.

The act of choosing or selecting. Synonyms: choice, option, selection. "You can take your pick"

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"Pick" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bonin Islands to pick up the seal-herd, and north we hunted it for a hundred days into frosty, mitten weather and into and through vast fogs which hid the sun from us for a week at a time. It was wild and heavy work, without a drink or thought of drink. Then we sailed south to Yokohama, ...

— John Barleycorn • Jack London

... read. I used to hope that he would leave his book behind him one day; but he never forgot it, and always took it to his room with him. One of my great troubles was that I could not find anything to read in the farm, and I used to pick up any bits of printed paper that I saw lying about. The farmer's wife had noticed this, and said that I should become a miser some day. One Sunday, when I had screwed up my courage and asked Eugene for a book, he gave me a book of songs. All through the summer ...

— Marie Claire • Marguerite Audoux

... at the Feuillans. The Princesses mended their clothes every day, and after the King had gone to bed Madame Elisabeth mended his. "With much trouble," says Clrry, "I procured some fresh linen for them. But the workwomen having marked it with crowned letters, the Princesses were ordered to pick them out." The room in the great tower to which the King had been removed contained only one bed, and no other article of furniture. A chair was brought on which Clery spent the first night; painters were ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... we?" she exploded. "I couldn't even order food today. Max had to go to the AutoMart and pick it up!" ...

— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner

... neighbourhood more respectable and less demonstrative, skirt a common, are stopped at a porter's lodge and turn into a parkland. The glow of sunset is ended; the blue-grey of twilight is settling down. Between flowered borders we pick our way, pause here and there for directions and at last halt. Again the stretcher-bearers! As I am carried in I catch a glimpse of a low bungalow-building, with others like it dotted about beneath trees. There are red shaded lamps. ...

— The Glory of the Trenches • Coningsby Dawson

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