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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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purchase
English
Etymology
From Middle English purchasen, from Anglo-Norman purchacer (“seek to obtain”) from pur- (from Latin pro-) + chac(i)er (“to chase, pursue”). Compare Old French porchacier (“to follow, to chase”), which has given French pourchasser (“to chase without relent”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?t??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??t??s/
- Hyphenation: pur?chase
Noun
purchase (countable and uncountable, plural purchases)
- The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
- That which is obtained, got or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.
- That which is obtained for a price in money or its equivalent.
- (obsolete) The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- I'll […] get meat to save thee, / Or lose my life i’ th’ purchase.
- A price paid for a house or estate, etc. equal to the amount of the rent or income during the stated number of years.
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- Suppose a freehold house to be worth 20 years’ purchase […]
- 1848, The Sessional Papers printed by order of the House of Lords
- (uncountable, also figuratively) Any mechanical hold or advantage, applied to the raising or removing of heavy bodies, as by a lever, a tackle or capstan.
- Synonyms: contact, grip, hold
- The apparatus, tackle or device by which such mechanical advantage is gained and in nautical terminology the ratio of such a device, like a pulley, or block and tackle.
- (rock climbing, uncountable) The amount of hold one has from an individual foothold or ledge.
- Synonyms: foothold, support
- (law, dated) Acquisition of lands or tenements by means other than descent or inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement.
Derived terms
- purchase order
- repurchase
Translations
Verb
purchase (third-person singular simple present purchases, present participle purchasing, simple past and past participle purchased)
- To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
- To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire.
- that loves the thing he cannot purchase
- To obtain by any outlay, as of labor, danger, or sacrifice, etc.
- to purchase favor with flattery
- To expiate by a fine or forfeit.
- To apply to (anything) a device for obtaining a mechanical advantage; to get a purchase upon, or apply a purchase to; to raise or move by mechanical means.
- To put forth effort to obtain anything; to strive; to exert oneself.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- Duke John of Brabant purchased greatly that the Earl of Flanders should have his daughter in marriage.
- 1523–1525, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, Froissart's Chronicles
- To constitute the buying power for a purchase, have a trading value.
Synonyms
- (buy): procure
Derived terms
- purchasable
- purchasing agent
- purchasing power
Translations
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