Lexic.us

Definition of Pick

1. Noun. The person or thing chosen or selected. "He was my pick for mayor"

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

3. Noun. The quantity of a crop that is harvested. "It was the biggest peach pick in years"

4. Verb. Look for and gather. "Pick flowers"

5. Noun. The best people or things in a group. "The cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"

6. Verb. Harass with constant criticism. "Don't always pick on your little brother"

7. Noun. The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving.

8. Verb. Provoke. "Pick a fight or a quarrel"

9. Noun. A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument.

10. Verb. Remove in small bits. "Pick meat from a bone"

11. Noun. A thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material. "He used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks"

12. Verb. Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits. "Clean the turkey"

13. 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"

14. Verb. Pilfer or rob. "Pick pockets"

15. Noun. A basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body. "He was called for setting an illegal pick"

16. Verb. Pay for something. "Foot the bill"

17. Noun. The act of choosing or selecting. "You can take your pick"

18. Verb. Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion. "He plucked the strings of his mandolin"

19. Verb. Attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example. "Pick open the ice"

20. Verb. Hit lightly with a picking motion.

21. Verb. Eat intermittently; take small bites of. "They pick more bread"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

Definition of Pick

1. v. t. To throw; to pitch.

2. v. i. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

3. n. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

Definition of Pick

1. Noun. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. ¹

2. Noun. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock. ¹

3. Noun. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair. ¹

4. Noun. (American English) A choice. ¹

5. Noun. (basketball) A screen ¹

6. Noun. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. ¹

7. Noun. (American football) An interception. ¹

8. Noun. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder ¹

9. Noun. (baseball) Short for pick-off ¹

10. Noun. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum. ¹

11. Verb. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. ¹

12. Verb. 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. ¹

13. Verb. To decide between options. ¹

14. Verb. (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. ¹

15. Verb. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pick

1. to select [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: select

Medical Definition of Pick

1. 1. To throw; to pitch. "As high as I could pick my lance." (Shak) 2. 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. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. To open (a lock) as by a wire. 5. 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. 6. 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. "Did you pick Master Slender's purse?" (Shak) "He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet." (Cowper) 7. 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. "One man picked out of ten thousand." 8. To take up; especially, 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. 9. To trim. To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. To pick a bone with. See Bone. To pick a thank, to curry favor. To pick off. To pluck; to remove by picking. To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. To pick out. To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colours. To select from a number or quantity. To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence, to analyze; especially, to criticize in detail. To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. To pick up. To take up, as with the fingers. To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news. Origin: OE. Picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. Pikka, Sw. Picka, Dan. Pikke, D. Pikken, G. Picken, F. Piquer, W. Pigo. Cf. Peck, Pike, Pitch to throw. 1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. 2. 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. 3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. "Take down my buckler . . . And grind the pick on 't." 4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. "France and Russia have the pick of our stables." (Ld. Lytton) 5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock. 6. 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. 7. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. 8. 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. Pick dressing, in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt, used by miners. Origin: F. Pic a pickax, a pick. See Pick, and cf. Pike. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pick

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picibanil piciform piciform bird piciformes picine pick (current term) pick's disease pick-axe pick-axes pick-me-up

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