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1. pick [ v ] select carefully from a group
Examples: : "She finally picked her successor" "He picked his way carefully" "We had to pick through a lot of data"

Used in print:

(James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)

All through July the Discovery picked her way along the 450 - mile long strait , avoiding ice and rocky islands .

(Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)

Two of the new hands , a Mexican named Jose_Amado and a kid known only as Laredo , were picked for the first trick of riding night herd .

(Richard S. Prather, "The Bawdy Beautiful," Cavalier...)

`` I 'll pick murder .

Synonyms pick Related Terms choose hand-pick choice chooser

2. pick [ v ] look for and gather
Examples: "pick mushrooms" "pick flowers"

Used in print:

(Organic Gardening and Farming,...)

Pick the flowers , keep the soil dampened , and each of the pegged-down branches will take root and become a little plant and go_on blooming for the rest of the season .

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

One soft evening - that marvelous sea blessed time when the sun 's departing warmth lingers and a smell of spume and wrack haunts everything - Amy had picked herself off the floor and begun to walk .

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

Whenever she found time , she went blackberry picking with him , and they would come home together , mouths purple , arms and faces scratched , tired enough to forget grief for another day .

Synonyms pick cull pluck Related Terms gather berry mushroom learn pick_up catch pick_up pluck cull_out sieve_out picking

3. pick [ v ] harass with constant criticism
Examples: "Don't always pick on your little brother"

Used in print:

(Randall Stewart, "A Little History, a Little Honesty: A...)

For over a_hundred years Southerners have felt that the North was picking on them .

It 's infuriating , this feeling that one is being picked on , continually , constantly .

Synonyms blame pick find_fault Related Terms criticize cynic

4. pick [ n ] the person or thing chosen or selected
Examples: "he was my pick for mayor"

Used in print:

(Richard S. Prather, "The Bawdy Beautiful," Cavalier...)

Accident , murder , suicide - take your pick '' .

Synonyms choice selection pick Related Terms decision_making way favorite pleasure

5. pick [ v ] provoke
Examples: : "pick a fight or a quarrel"

Used in print:

(James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)

With Hudson looking_on , his protege Greene picked a fight with the ship 's surgeon , Edward_Wilson .

Synonyms pick Related Terms provoke

6. pick [ v ] remove in small bits
Examples: : "pick meat from a bone"

Used in print:

(Jay Williams, The Forger....)

We hold safe little jobs illustrating tooth-paste ads or the salacious incidents in trivial novels , and most_of our easel painting is nothing but picking the fluff out of the navel so it can be contemplated in greater purity .

Synonyms pick Related Terms remove

7. pick [ v ] remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, as of chickens or fruit
Examples: "Clean the turkey"

Used in print:

(Mignon G. Eberhart, The Cup, the Blade...)

In the kitchen Glendora was despairingly picking chickens .

Synonyms clean pick Related Terms remove

8. pick [ n ] the best people or things in a group
Examples: "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"

Synonyms cream pick Related Terms elite

9. pick [ n ] the quantity of a crop that is harvested
Examples: "he sent the first picking of berries to the market" "it was the biggest peach pick in years"

Synonyms pick picking Related Terms output indefinite_quantity

10. pick [ n ] a thin sharp implement used for picking
Examples: "he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks"

Synonyms pick Related Terms hand_tool toothpick icepick

11. pick [ v ] pay for something
Examples: "pick up the tab" "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages" "foot the bill"

Synonyms foot pick Related Terms pay

12. pick [ v ] eat intermittently; take small bites of
Examples: "He pieced at the sandwich all morning" "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

Synonyms munch piece pick nibble Related Terms gorge eat piece

13. pick [ n ] a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

Synonyms plectrum plectron pick Related Terms device guitar_pick pluck

14. pick [ n ] a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
Examples: "he was called for setting an illegal pick"

Synonyms pick Related Terms basketball_play

15. pick [ n ] the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

Synonyms weft filling pick woof Related Terms yarn weave fabric

16. pick [ v ] attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
Examples: "Pick open the ice"

Synonyms break_up pick Related Terms pierce chop

17. pick [ v ] pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings
Examples: "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

Synonyms plunk pick pluck Related Terms pull twang

18. pick [ v ] hit lightly with a picking motion

Synonyms peck beak pick Related Terms strike beak

19. pick [ v ] eat intermittently; take small bites of
Examples: "He pieced at the sandwich all morning" "She never eats a full meal--she just picks at the food"

Synonyms pick piece nibble Related Terms eat

20. pick [ v ] pilfer or rob
Examples: : "pick pockets"

Synonyms pick Related Terms rob pickings

21. pick [ n ] a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
Examples: "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"

Synonyms pickax pickaxe pick Related Terms edge_tool mattock

22. Pick [ n ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 12751

Synonyms Pick

23. pick [ n ] the act of choosing or selecting
Examples: "your choice of colors was unfortunate" "you can take your pick"

Synonyms selection choice option pick Related Terms action decision vote sampling volition election colouration casting

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