To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. Example: Don't pick at that scab.
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. Example: It's time to pick the tomatoes.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. Example: She picked flowers in the meadow.
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together. Example: to pick rags
To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth. Example: to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
To decide upon, from a set of options; to select. Example: I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
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. Example: He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.
To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument. Example: 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.
To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care. Example: I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
To steal; to pilfer.
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. Example: to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
To screen.
A gathering to pick fruit. Example: We went to a strawberry picking last June.
(usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
(usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
Something picked or pulled out. Example: The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.
The act of making a choice; selection.
The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.
The removal of defects from electrotype plates.
Dabbing in stoneworking.
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