different between picking vs shopping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?k??/
• Rhymes: -?k??

Verb

picking

1. present participle of pick

Noun

picking (plural pickings)

1. A gathering to pick fruit.

   We went to a strawberry picking last June.

2. (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
   • 1899, F. Marion Crawford, Via Crucis, ch. 9:

     Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.

3. (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
   • 1919, Anthony Hope, The Secret of the Tower, ch. 11:

     He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.

4. Something picked or pulled out.

   The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.

5. The act of making a choice; selection.
6. The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
7. The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
8. Dabbing in stoneworking.

Synonyms

• (items remaining after others have selected the best): leftovers
• (unscrupulously acquired gains): See Thesaurus:booty

Derived terms

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???p??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??

Verb

shopping

1. present participle of shop

Noun

shopping (usually uncountable, plural shoppings)

1. The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
2. Recently bought goods.

3. An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.

4. Placement in a workshop for overhaul.

Usage notes

In English, it is common to say do the shopping or go shopping. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Hoppings, hoppings

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pi?/

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping (act of shopping)

Further reading

• “shopping” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Noun

shopping m (invariable)

1. shopping

Polish

Etymology

From English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.p?ink/

Noun

shopping m inan

1. shopping (leisure activity of going shopping)

Declension

Further reading

• shopping in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• shopping in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.p??/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /???.p?/, /???.p?j?/

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping center
2. mall

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??opin/, [??o.p?n]

Noun

shopping m (plural shoppings)

1. shopping center
2. shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English shopping, equivalent to shoppa +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /¹??p??/

Noun

shopping c (uncountable)

1. shopping (the leisure activity of going shopping)

Declension

Related terms

• shoppa
• shop