pick

Meaning of pick

noun
  1. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  2. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  3. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  4. A choice; ability to choose.
  5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  6. A screen.
  7. An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  8. An interception.
  9. A good defensive play by an infielder.
  10. A pickoff.
  11. A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  12. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  13. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  14. 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.
  15. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  16. 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
verb
  1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
    Don't pick at that scab.
  2. 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.
  3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
    She picked flowers in the meadow.
  4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
    to pick rags
  5. To remove something from somewhere 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
  6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
    I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
  7. To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
  8. 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.
  9. To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
    He picked a tune on his banjo.
  10. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  12. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
    I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
  13. To steal; to pilfer.
  14. To throw; to pitch.
  15. 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.
  16. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
    to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
  17. To screen.

Information about pick

  • The plural form of pick is: picks.
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Hyphenation of pick

pick

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • pick is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

pick synonyms

Meaning choice:

choice, selection, option

Meaning picking:

picking

Meaning cream:

cream

Meaning woof:

woof, weft, filling

Meaning plectrum:

plectrum, plectron

Meaning pickax:

pickax, pickaxe

Meaning pluck:

pluck, cull, plunk

Meaning blame:

blame

Meaning clean:

clean

Meaning foot:

foot

Meaning peck:

peck, beak

Meaning nibble:

nibble, piece

Translation of pick

Words that rhyme with pick

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