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What does pick mean?

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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. (basketball) A screen.
  7. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  8. (American football) An interception.
  9. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  10. (baseball) A pickoff.
  11. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  12. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  13. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  14. (printing, dated) 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. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  16. (weaving) 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.
Verb
  1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  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.
  3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  5. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  7. (cricket) 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.
  8. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  9. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  10. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  11. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  12. To steal; to pilfer.
  13. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  14. (transitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
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