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PICK definition: 1. to take some things and leave others: 2. to take some things but not others: 3. to remove…. Learn more.
Merriam-Webster unabridged. The meaning of PICK is to pierce, penetrate, or break up with a pointed instrument. How to use pick in a sentence.
Pick definition: to choose or select from among a group. See examples of PICK used in a sentence.
1. verb. If you pick a particular person or thing, you choose that one. Mr Nowell had picked ten people to interview for six sales jobs in London. [VERB noun] I had deliberately picked a city with a tropical climate. [VERB noun] Synonyms: select, choose, identify, elect More Synonyms of pick. 2. verb.
1. to choose (something) deliberately or carefully, from or as if from a group or number; select. 2. to pluck or gather (fruit, berries, or crops) from (a tree, bush, field, etc): to pick hops; to pick a whole bush. 3. (Cookery) ( tr) to clean or prepare (fruit, poultry, etc) by removing the indigestible parts.
When you pick something, you choose it, the way you pick apples in the fall or when you pick a partner to work with in biology class. But if you pick on someone, you bug them in a mean way. Something you pick can be called a pick, like the " pick of the litter,” the best dog of the bunch.
[transitive] to pull or remove something or small pieces of something from something else, especially with your fingers. pick something + adv./prep. She picked bits of fluff from his sweater. He picked the nuts off the top of the cake. Names were picked at random out of a hat.
PICK definition: 1. to choose something or someone: 2. If you pick flowers, fruit, etc, you take them off a tree or…. Learn more.
To thieve or pilfer. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To gather the harvest from. Picked the field in one day. American Heritage. To gather growing berries, flowers, etc. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. More Verb Definitions (28) Synonyms: dent. strike. indent. pull off. pinfeather.
UK /pɪk/ noun 1. a tool consisting of a long handle set at right angles in the middle of a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel edge or point at the other, used for breaking up hard ground or rock 2. an instrument for picking an ebony hair pick (informal) a plectrum a pink guitar pick. word origin.
