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Pick At


Synonyms: Pick At

Synonyms: belittle (v), disparage (v), peck (v), peck at (v), pluck at (v), pull at (v). (additional references)
Antonym: flatter (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pick At

English words defined with "pick at": mattockTo pick at. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pick at": ARMORED-CAR GUARD, armored-car messenger, ATTENDANT, CAMPGROUND, Axiom of Choicebench hand, Bone to pickcampground hand, car cleaner, car porter, chain coal cutter, CHARGER II, chip sampling, cleaner operator, critical velocity, cutter chainDEEP SUBMERGENCE VEHICLE OPERATOR, Delivery Instructions, Diamond HammerFIBER-MACHINE TENDER, forming operatorgroup quarters enumerationHOST/HOSTESSlog handler, LOG ROLLER, lyremaintenance worker, house trailer, MOBILE-HOME-LOT UTILITY WORKERNEWSPAPER-DELIVERY DRIVER, nondelivery area, Nurse an Omnibusphone-book deliverer, PIANO STRINGER, pick breaker, PICKED-EDGE SEWING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Pickup Order, PORTER, USED-CAR LOT, power-cleaner operatorReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, relay haulageset-up and charger, sliver former, sliver handler, SWEEPER-CLEANER, INDUSTRIALTELEPHONE-DIRECTORY DELIVERER, tester, vibrator equipment, TICKET BROKER, top-lift and automatic-window repairerused-car-lot attendantvacuum-cleaner operator, VIBRATOR-EQUIPMENT TESTERWEATHERSTRIP-MACHINE OPERATOR, windlace-machine operator. (references)

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Modern Usage: Pick At

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You must pick at least two. But, but, but! (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Pick At

Expression using "pick at": To pick at. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pick At

Language Translations for "pick at"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

ям неохотно, критикувам (animadvert, bad-mouth, crab, criticize, fault, nibble, run down), заяждам се с (nag, pick on). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

napsia (pick off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τσιμπολογώ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

piszkál vkit (to peck at sy, to pick at sy), csipeget az ételből (to pick at one's food), beleköt vkibe (to pick a quarrel with sy, to pick at sy, to pick up a quarrel with sy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

mangiare contro voglia, grattarsi (scratch). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

突く (to attack, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to strike, to thrust). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

つつく (to attack, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to strike, to thrust), つく (comes on, to accompany, to adhere, to adjoin, to arrive at, to attach to, to attack, to be added to, to be attached, to be connected with, to be dyed, to be recorded, to be scarred, to be stained, to become allied to, to breathe, to catch fire, to disgorge, to follow, to haunt, to increase, to nudge, to pick at, to poke, to possess, to reach, to settle in, to start, to strike, to study, to study with, to take, to tell, to thrust, to vomit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickpay atay

   

Portuguese

  

ser exigente, importunar (badger, bother, devil, disturb, hinder, importune, incommode, lay the blame on, nag, persecute, pester, plague, pursue, solicit, tease, tire, trouble). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se opri la (call at, pick on), se lega (bind, bind oneself, connect, interlink, knit, link, moor), se culege, se amesteca în, gusta din, face fãrã effort. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zorla yemek, mızmızlanarak yemek, kusur bulmak (arraign, carp, cast reflection on smb., cavil, crab, criticize, fault, find fault, pick holes in, pick on, reflect on, reflect upon, reprehend), karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut in, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl), burnunu sokmak (butt in, horn in, horn in on, interfere in, intermeddle, meddle, pick over, poke one's nose into, pry, pry into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, snoop, snoop into, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pick At

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-k-p-t"

-2 letters: ikat, pack, pact, paik, pica, pick, pika, pita, tack, tick.

-3 letters: act, ait, apt, cap, cat, ick, kat, kip, kit, pac, pat, pia, pic, pit, tap, tic, tip.

-4 letters: ai, at, it, ka, pa, pi, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-k-p-t"
 

+1 letter: tripack.

 

+2 letters: tripacks.

 

+3 letters: packeting, pickthank, plasticky, skeptical, slapstick.

 

+4 letters: karyotypic, panickiest, picketboat, pickthanks, planktonic, slapsticks, taperstick.

 

+5 letters: apparatchik, meatpacking, packability, peacockiest, picketboats, prokaryotic, skeptically, tapersticks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pick At


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 69 63 6B      41 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#65 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0069 0063 006B      0041 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5075697723586

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