[
US
/ˈpɪk/
]
[ UK /pˈɪk/ ]
[ UK /pˈɪk/ ]
NOUN
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the act of choosing or selecting
you can take your pick
your choice of colors was unfortunate - the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
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a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks -
the person or thing chosen or selected
he was my pick for mayor -
the best people or things in a group
the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War -
the quantity of a crop that is harvested
it was the biggest peach pick in years
he sent the first picking of berries to the market -
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 -
a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
he was called for setting an illegal pick - a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
VERB
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remove in small bits
pick meat from a bone -
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
he plucked the strings of his mandolin -
remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
Clean the turkey -
pay for something
pick up the tab
foot the bill
pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages - hit lightly with a picking motion
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attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
Pick open the ice -
pilfer or rob
pick pockets -
look for and gather
pick flowers
pick mushrooms -
eat intermittently; take small bites of
She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles
He pieced at the sandwich all morning -
provoke
pick a fight or a quarrel -
harass with constant criticism
Don't always pick on your little brother -
select carefully from a group
He picked his way carefully
She finally picked her successor
How To Use pick In A Sentence
- As I did at FIAC, I selected 18 galleries and asked their most anglophonic expert to pick an image and talk about it for under two minutes. Michael Kurcfeld: Doing Shots: The Old and the New at Paris Photo 2011 (VIDEO)
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- It should be a baritone scoring game and the unfortunate should be in early disceptation for a top 3 pick. Xml's Blinklist.com
- It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
- People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
- Ketheral looked around the inside of the armory, picked up a chainwhip, a normal whip, a brace of throwing knives, and a couple of shields.
- Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment. Real Estate
- I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
- I picked up the faint sound of a car in the distance.
- Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb. Diary
