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pick
  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.
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  18. Examples:
    1. “A well was made by digging a hole in the ground with a pick and shovel.”
      “MacGyver would successfully fashion a pick from some scraps in the room, which he subsequently used to unlock the door.”
      “These kids are the pick of the junior athletes in our country.”
picker
  1. Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
  2. (computing) Any user interface control that selects something.
  3. (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
  4. (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
  5. (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
  6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “The team captain designated me as the picker, tasked with selecting the starting lineup for the game.”
      “Another hazard that sometimes faced the picker was disturbing a nest of wasps or some other stinging creatures.”
      “She took a job in a book warehouse there and spent her workdays as a picker, sorting books and reading them along the way.”
picking
  1. A gathering to pick fruit.
  2. (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
  3. (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “This principle also applies to the picking of candidates for the position of the Secretary General of the United Nations.”
picklock
  1. A device designed to pick locks.
  2. One who picks locks; a thief.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Oddly enough the picklock to the captives' minds had been produced by the dolphins.”
      “One doesn't want to be seen using a picklock. Now, can you show us the way?”
      “He was a picklock in the widest sense. Keeping him out of a place he wanted to get into or look into was a remarkably difficult thing to do.”
pickery
  1. A place where cotton is picked.
  2. (Scotland) petty theft
  3. Examples:
    1. “We welcomed new chair Henny Nicholls, new vice chair Sarah Pickery and treasurer Jill Meiring.”
      “It was captained by an Englishman named Tim Pickery, a mate called Corbett, five Frenchmen, 12 Englishmen and about 20 wild Irish kerns said to be men without mercy.”
pickman
  1. A man employed to break ground using a pick.
pickfest
  1. A period of intense or frequent picking (in various senses)
pickiness
  1. picky behaviour
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “And sometimes announcing the joy of being in a couple isn't about smugness, it's about celebrating that pickiness can sometimes work out.”
      “Not to be picky, but I think your otherwise legitimate critique of pickiness as a rejection of goodness is missing the larger point.”
      “Unicorns are renowned for their pickiness, only allowing human and elfin maidens of pure heart to ride them.”
pickability
  1. The quality of being pickable.
picky
pickfests
  1. plural of pickfest
picklocks
pickmen
  1. plural of pickman
pickings
  1. plural of picking
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “While these crisis shares could provide rich pickings, those tempted require strong stomachs.”
      “Believing that easy pickings were in store, the American warships formed up and closed range.”
      “Starlings had the pickings from the grass one side of the hairpin road, fieldfares the other.”
pickeries
  1. plural of pickery
pickers
  1. plural of picker
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Have the pickers of the tea leaves have been paid a fair price or are they being robbed by the global trading system?”
      “Mushroom pickers are hailing this autumn's harvests as among the best in recent memory.”
      “Much support is on offer from the Local Authority in the form of bags, gloves, tabards, litter pickers and disposal.”
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