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Pick Over


Synonym: Pick Over

Synonym: sieve out (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pick Over

English words defined with "pick over": carpet sweeperscattered, strewn, sweepertreadle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "pick over": Advanced Revelation, ANKLE-PATCH MOLDERcar ice-bunker filler, CAR ICER, CHARGER IFIBER-MACHINE TENDER, FOILING-MACHINE OPERATOR, forming operatorhand-spray operatoricer, air conditioningkeel wedgeLABORER, LANDSCAPE, loading-unit plate fillermail user agent, maintenance worker, house trailer, MOBILE-HOME-LOT UTILITY WORKER, MOSQUITO SPRAYERNEWSPAPER-DELIVERY DRIVERPIPE RACKER, plate fillerReal Programmers Don't Use Pascal, refrigerator-car icerSHAKER-PLATE OPERATOR, sliver former, sliver handler, sprayer, insecticideWARE CLEANER. (references)

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Use in Literature: Pick Over

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Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Bands of little boys came out from the towns to break the windows and to pick over the debris, looking for treasures.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translations: Pick Over

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

Bulgarian 

  

подбирам (assail, cull, extract, go for smb., herd, match, pick, pick out, rail at, round up, select, winnow). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(to choose, to pick, to select). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

perata (clean, clear, gut, hoe, top and tail, weed). (various references)

   

French

  

tirer, examiner. (various references)

   

German

  

untersuchen (analyse, analyze, check, enquire into, examine, explore, go over, inquire into, investigate, look into, pick through, probe, research, scan, scrutinize, see into, sound out, study, survey, test, to analyse, to analyzeUS, to determine, to examine, to explore, to inspect, verify), durchsehen (check over, check through, look over, look through, peruse, pick through, search through, see through, to look over, to review), auslesen (choose, cull, elect, get through with, pick out, pick through, select). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξεδιαλέγω (choose, sort). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

átválogat (to pick over). (various references)

   

Italian

  

selezionare (choose, cull, pick out, screen, select, sort), mondare (cleanse, Peel, shell, winnow). (various references)

   

Manx

  

teiy (ballot, balloting, choice, choose, cream, cream best, cull, discrimination, division; tomahawk, gather, highlight; selection, pick, poll; prime, select, vote). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickpay overay

   

Romanian

  

sorta (assort, select, sort), se gândi mereu la, repeta mereu la, cerceta bucatã cu bucatã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

buscar en (rake, search). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sovra (clean, cleanse, make clean, purge, screen), rensa (clean, cleanse, clear, draw, dress, eviscerate, gut, Hull, make clean, pick, purge, sanitize, scour, shell, weed), gå igenom (get through, go through, pass, pervade, review, run through, take, work over), ansa (attend, nurse, see to, tend, tend to). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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 at, 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), ince eleyip sık dokumak (be too fussy, be too particular, fuss, go over, go over smth. with a fine comb, go through, niggle, pick holes in, refine, scrutinize, sift, split, split hairs), burnunu sokmak (butt in, horn in, horn in on, interfere in, intermeddle, meddle, pick at, 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), ayıklamak (clean out, comb out, grub up, pick, pluck, select, sort, sort out, weed out, weed up, winnow). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відбирати (abstract, choose, defraud, denude, deprive, draft, draught). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pick Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-o-p-r-v"

-1 letter: pockier.

-2 letters: copier, picker, pokier, voicer.

-3 letters: coper, cover, cripe, icker, ocker, piker, poker, price, prick, prove, viper, vireo, voice.

-4 letters: cero, cire, coir, coke, cope, core, cork, cove, crop, epic, keir, kepi, kier, kore, over, peck, peri, perk, pice, pick, pier, pike, pock, poke, pore, pork, reck, repo, rice, rick, ripe, rive, rock.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-o-p-r-v"
 

+5 letters: overpackaging.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Pick Over


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

50 69 63 6B      4F 76 65 72

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

    

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

01010000 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#79 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0069 0063 006B      004F 0076 0065 0072

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

50756977249887184

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