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Definition: UNPICKED |
UNPICKEDAdjective1. Not picked. 2. Picked out; picked open. |
Date "UNPICKED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
Note: Unpicked \Un*picked"\, adjective. [Properly present participle of unpick.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Unpicked cotton lying in field in front of billboard offering to cash powder plant paychecks. Many, who in other years would be picking cotton, are now employed at the powder plant. Millington, Tennessee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "UNPICKED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 95.24% of the time. "UNPICKED" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 95.24% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "UNPICKED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pazgjedhur (indecisive, irresolvable, undetermined, unresolved, unselected, unsettled, unsolved), i pagrisur (unbroken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпран, неподбран, неизбран. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevybraný. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unsortiert (unsorted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ki nem válogatott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ickedunpay por colher, não selecionado (mixed), não colhido. (various references) несорванный, неподобранный. (various references) neodabran, neizabran. (various references) descosido (disjointed). (various references) seçilmemiş, dikişleri sökülmüş (unstitched). (various references) розпоротий, незірваний, недібраний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"UNPICKED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uniced. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-k-n-p-u" | |
-1 letter: duckpin. | |
-2 letters: duckie, induce, nicked, picked, pinked, punkie, unpick. | |
-3 letters: cupid, dunce, indue, inked, nudie, nuked, pekin, piked, pined, pudic, puked, upend. | |
-4 letters: cedi, cine, cued, cuke, deck, deni, dice, dick, dike, dine, dink, duce, duci, duck, duke, dune, dunk, dupe, epic, iced, kepi, kind, kine, kune, neck, neuk, nice, nick, nide, nude, nuke. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 50 49 43 4B 45 44 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .--. .. -.-. -.- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01010000 01001001 01000011 01001011 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N P I C K E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0050 0049 0043 004B 0045 0044 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5548504337453938 |
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