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.
 * 5)  A screen
 * 6)  An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
 * 7)  An interception.
 * 8)  A good defensive play by an infielder
 * 9)  Short for pick-off
 * 10)  A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

Derived terms

 * pickaxe
 * take one's pick
 * toothpick

Verb

 * 1) To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
 * Don't pick at that scab.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) To decide between options.
 * I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
 * He picked a tune on his banjo.
 * He picked his nose.

Derived terms

 * a bone to pick
 * picky
 * pickpocket
 * nitpick
 * pick and choose


 * pick 'em
 * nose-picking
 * pick somebody's brain
 * pick up
 * pick up on


 * pick up where one left
 * pickin' and grinnin'
 * ripe for the picking

Verbs for Pick
brandish—; drive—; dull—; implant—; inject—; plunge—; ram in—; twist—; wield —; —chips; —chops; —cleaves; —cracks; —disperses; —eliminates;  —gashes;  — hacks; —loosens; —minces; —pierces rips; —severs; —shatters; —splinters slits; —strikes; —sunders; —uproots wrenches.

Adverbs for Pick
hastily; painfully; captiously; contentiously; aimlessly; obediently; precariously; laboriously; cautiously; mercifully; argumentatively; democratically; shrewdly.

Thesaurus
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Etymology
(v.) pician and Old Norse pikka "to prick, to peck", from Proto-Indo-European *pik-/*pek-

(n.) variant of pike

Noun

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 * Russian: кирка, кайло
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 * : pobrati, dvigniti, kopati
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