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pick
English
Etymology
From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *p?cian (attested in p?cung (“a pricking”)), and p?can (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-Germanic *pikk?n?, *p?kijan? (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?k/, [p??k]
- Homophone: pic
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
pick (plural picks)
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?
- France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
- 1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- (basketball) A screen.
- (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- (American football) An interception.
- (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
- (baseball) A pickoff.
- (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
- Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.
- (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.
- c. 1866, Thomas MacKellar, The American Printer
- If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks
- c. 1866, Thomas MacKellar, The American Printer
- (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- (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.
Derived terms
- pickaxe
- take one's pick
- toothpick
Translations
Verb
pick (third-person singular simple present picks, present participle picking, simple past and past participle picked)
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- Don't pick at that scab.
- He picked his nose.
- 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.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- She picked flowers in the meadow.
- to pick feathers from a fowl
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- to pick rags
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.
- 1867, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Chapter 43
- He was charged with attempting to pick a pocket, and they found a silver snuff-box on him,--his own, my dear, his own, for he took snuff himself, and was very fond of it.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
- I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
- (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- (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.
- He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.
- (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
- He picked a tune on his banjo.
- To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
- To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- 1693, John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius
- Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?
- 1693, John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius
- To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
- To steal; to pilfer.
- Book of Common Prayer
- to keep my hands from picking and stealing
- Book of Common Prayer
- (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
- (dated) 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.
- (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
- to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
- 1912, Victor Whitechurch, Thrilling Stories of the Railway
- Naphtha lamps shed a weird light over a busy scene, for the work was being continued night and day. A score or so of sturdy navvies were shovelling and picking along the track.
- (basketball) To screen.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- mattock
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Verb
pick
- singular imperative of picken
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of picken
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Etymology
From Middle English pyke, from Old English p?c.
Noun
pick (plural pickkès)
- a pike
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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assortment
English
Etymology
assort +? -ment
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??s??tm?nt/
Noun
assortment (plural assortments)
- A collection of varying but related items.
- This box has an assortment of chocolates. There's a picture on the cover so you know which is which.
Synonyms
- diversity, Whitman's sampler
- See also Thesaurus:hodgepodge
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