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Definition of Pick

Pick To throw; to pitch. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. To open (a lock) as by a wire. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information. To trim. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care. To steal; to pilfer. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock. A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock. A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Related Definitions: Act, Also, An, And, Anything, Apart, As, At, Attending, Away, Ball, Be, Beak, Being, Best, Bird, Blow, Bone, Both, Bring, Buckler, By, Care, Carefully, Center, Choice, Choose, Chosen, Collect, Company, Composition, Correct, Cotton, Cull, Curved, Describing, Desirable, Do, Dressing, Eat, Especially, Fabric, Face, Filling, Fineness, First, Fixed, Flock, For, Fowl, From, Fruit, Gather, Goose, Hammer, Handle, Have, Heavy, Hence, Here, Hollow, Imbedded, In, Inch, Information, Ink, Inserted, Instrument, Iron, Is, Letter, Lock, Loom, Many, Matted, Middle, Minute, Nibble, Nicely, Oakum, Occasioning, Of, Often, On, One, Open, Or, Out, Paper, Particle, Peck, Pencil, Per, Pick, Picked, Picking, Picklock, Picture, Pierce, Pike, Pilfer, Pin, Pitch, Pluck, Pocket, Point, Pointed, Prick, Printed, Pull, Quarrymen, Rate, Reckoned, Remove, Right, Select, Selection, Separate, Sharp, Sheet, Shuttle, Slowly, Small, So, Something, Sometimes, Speed, Spike, Spot, Stalk, Steal, Strike, Take, Teeth, That, The, There, Thread, Throw, To, Together, Tool, Toothpick, Tree, Trim, Up, Upon, Used, Way, Weft, Which, Wielded, Wire, With, Wooden, Wool, Would

Pick Quotations I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good. Nusrat F. A. Khan There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Oscar Wilde Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round. Muhammad Ali It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain

Pick Translations pick in Danish is stikke, plukke pick in Dutch is knabbelen, afkluiven pick in French is cueillir, piquer, ramasser pick in Norwegian is hakke, pirke, velge, plukke i pick in Portuguese is picareta pick in Swedish is dyrka upp, plocka, peta, hacka

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