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Pick
English
- 🔊 a basketball maneuver“he was called for setting an illegal pick”
- 🔊 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 thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material“he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks”
- 🔊 a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- 🔊 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“he sent the first picking of berries to the market”
- 🔊 the act of choosing or selecting“your choice of colors was unfortunate”
- 🔊 the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- 🔊 remove in small bits“pick meat from a bone”
- 🔊 select carefully from a group“She finally picked her successor”
- 🔊 look for and gather“pick mushrooms”
- 🔊 attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example“Pick open the ice”
- 🔊 provoke“pick a fight or a quarrel”
- 🔊 pilfer or rob“pick pockets”
- 🔊 remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits“Clean the turkey”
- 🔊 eat intermittently“He pieced at the sandwich all morning”
- 🔊 hit lightly with a picking motion
- 🔊 pay for something“pick up the tab”
- 🔊 harass with constant criticism“Don't always pick on your little brother”
- 🔊 pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion“he plucked the strings of his mandolin”
Spanish
- 🔊 pico pick, pickaxe
- 🔊 coger to pick, harvest