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pick
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[ verb ] 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 . |
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[ verb ] 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 . |
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[ verb ] harass with constant criticism
Synonyms 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 . |
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[ verb ] 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 . Related terms |
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[ verb ] 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 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the quantity of a crop that is harvested
Synonyms Examples "he sent the first picking of berries to the market" "it was the biggest peach pick in years" Related terms |
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[ noun ] a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
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[ noun ] (sport,basketball) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
Examples "he was called for setting an illegal pick" Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 12751
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