Pick

Definition: Pick

Pick

Noun

1. The person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor".

2. The quantity of a crop that is harvested; "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years".

3. The best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War".

4. The yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving.

5. A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument.

6. A thin sharp implement used for picking; "he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks".

7. A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks".

8. A basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; "he was called for setting an illegal pick".

9. The act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick".

Verb

1. Select carefully from a group: "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"; "We had to pick through a lot of data".

2. Look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers".

3. Harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother".

4. Provoke: "pick a fight or a quarrel".

5. Remove in small bits: "pick meat from a bone".

6. Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, as of chickens or fruit; "Clean the turkey".

7. Pilfer or rob: "pick pockets".

8. Pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages".

9. Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin".

10. : attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice".

11. : hit lightly with a picking motion.

12. : eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just picks at the food".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Industry

Literature

Mining

Occupations

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

Synonyms: Pick

Acquisition

Verb: acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect; (assemble); pick, pickup; glean.

Choice

Selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism; excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste; pick; (best).

Cleanness

Sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.

Food

Verb: eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to; despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck in; lick, pick, peck; gormandize; bite, champ, munch, cranch, craunch, crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.

Inexpedience

Super-excellence, supereminence; superiority; perfection; coup de maitre; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy.

Sharpness

Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.

Crosswords: Pick

Manx (asphalt, pitch).

They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

Did you just pick up another case (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

I didn't pick you because of your legal skills you know (JFK; writing credit: Jim Marrs; Jim Garrison)

Or maybe you shouldn't go bringing me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

The ants pick the food, the ants eat the food, and the grasshoppers leave (A Bug's Life; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton)

And if you're feeling down, he'll pick you up (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

COULD YOU PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL ME AT HOME (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Won't you pick the pieces up (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

I'm going to pick that rose and watch her as she grows in my garden (Spanish Harlem; performing artist: Aretha Franklin)

To pick you up on our very first date (First Date; performing artist: Blink-182)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Once over the hill, you pick up speed. (references; author: unknown)

It's Not How You Pick Your Nose, But Where You Put The Booger. (references; author: unknown)

You are an engineer if people groan at the party when you pick out the music. (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: I wasn’t sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands. (references; author: unknown)

Pick a partner and practice passing, for if you pass proficiently, perhaps you'll play professionally. (references; author: unknown)

Pick and Choose (1971)

How to Pick Up a Girl (1967)

Pick a Ham (1959)

Take Your Pick (1956)

Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944)

Pick Up Sticks (performing artist: The Dave Brubeck Quartet)

Pick A Bale Of Cotton (performing artist: Lonnie Donegan)

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

References

• PICK Communications Corp: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Pick Szeged RT: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Pick Ups Plus Inc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• How to Pick Up Foreclosures: A Step-By-Step Guide for Getting Super Discounted Property Before the Auction (reference)

• The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss and Perpetuate Sick Organizations (reference)

• How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffet: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Invesotr (reference)

• How To Pick Up Beautiful Women In Nightclubs or Any Other Place: Secrets Every Man Should Know (reference)

• Pick, Pull, Snap: Where Once a Flower Bloomed (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• You Pick the Winner/Horse Racing (reference)

• Crunch - Pick Your Spot Pilates (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Pick Hits Live [LIVE] (reference)

• Pick Yourself Up (reference)

• Pick Yourself Up with Anita O'Day (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• 4060 Pick Roller Kit 1/kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• V&B Mfg Co 861-01MP 16" Mini Pick (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Pictured is a mother with children standing in a farm setting on a summer day. One of the girls is holding a bucket, ready to pick berries. These people are members of a Mormon family who are presently being studied for their low cancer death rate. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Municipal workers pick up old tires to remove potential mosquito breeding sites, Laredo, Texas. Credit: CDC.

Planting a hydrophone anchor with the cable attached On the GUIDE Hydrophone would pick up sound from RAR TNT explosion. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Rincon Grande Ranch in the Falkland Islands - the SHACKLETON came here to pick up sheep carcasses for supplying Antarctic bases. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Stretching out the gillnet to pick fish on Coaches Island. Coaches Island is one of the islands within the Poplar Island archipelago. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Contaminated materials that were deposited and then released during a severe thunderstorm caused trees to pick up the copper and release it through their sap. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Bank sea bass pick through the rubble near temperate reefs. Centropristis sp. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Mexican migrant worker pick tobacco in the Danville, VA area. Credit: USDA.

Mr. Andrew Miller and Mr. Jimmy Clark pick okra for the Beat 4 Co-op of which they are members. Credit: USDA.

Boy Scouts volunteering to pick apples from Rio Bonito area of Ft. Stanton, Roswell, NM. Apples are taken into Roswell and distributed to homeless and food kitchens. Credit: H. Parman.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Oh! Harriet may pick and chuse

But it scarcely seemed worth while to step forward and pick it up, as the man would be back again in a moment

Fauchelevent took the spade and Jean Valjean the pick, and together they buried the empty coffin

A decollated precursor trying to pick the lock

Once over the line maybe you can pick cotton in the fall

It is perennially young, and I may stand and see a swallow dip apparently to pick an insect from its surface as of yore

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Like ascarids, people pick up hookworms as a result of unsanitary conditions. (references)

If your hearing aid is in the "T" position, this coil is activated when you pick up the phone. (references)

Antennas within the MRI machine pick up the radio waves within and feed them into a computer which assembles a picture. (references)

Business

Demand for construction should pick up gradually as the economic conditions improve. (references)

As the region improves and local currencies pick up, U.S. imports should see their figures further improve. (references)

However, demand was expected to pick up by late 2000 and should grow approximately five percent for the next two years. (references)

Children

Jordan

Selling newspapers, tissues, small food items, or gum, the vendors, along with the other children who pick through trash dumpsters to find recyclable cans to sell, sometimes are the sole source of income for their families. (references)

Saudi Arabia

However, there were reports that police pick up mentally ill persons for minor violations, detain them for a few weeks, and then release them, only to detain them again later for similar violations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

Although citizens of all political persuasions generally exercise unhindered freedom of speech, on occasion police took action to restrict it. For example, in July police flew a helicopter to Barahona to pick up an outspoken critic of a government aqueduct project. (references)

Economic History

Germany

The German commercial customer expects to be able to pick up the telephone, talk to his or her dealer, and have replacement parts or service work immediately available. (references)

Saudi Arabia

After a relatively flat year, the market is expected to pick up in 2001 reaching close to $1 billion in 2001. (references)

Peru

The government's estimate for the 2001 current account deficit in the multi-annual macroeconomic framework (MMF) is 2.6% of GDP. Direct investment has plummeted by 17% between 1999 and the first half of 2001 as a result of political turmoil, but was expected to pick up in the second half of 2001 following installation of the new five-year government. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

Near the scene, they encountered 16-year-old tennis player Thomas Feltes Engel and two friends, who were returning to their car to pick up a cellular telephone. (references)

Kenya

During one such sweep in May, police arrested approximately 1,400 suspects; Nairobi Police Chief Geoffrey Mwathe announced that he had directed a "massive operation to pick up all known criminals for known offenses and unknown offenses" and admitted that some innocent people were "likely to suffer." Security forces monitored closely the activities of dissidents, following or otherwise harassing them. (references)

Ecuador

Many of these are conflicting, and judges have been known to pick and choose from archaic legislation in an arbitrary or capricious manner. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Sweden's export sector is strong, resulting in large trade balance surpluses and solid current account surpluses since 1994. Domestic demand started to pick up in 1997 and has contributed to the growth since that year. (references)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Thus despite signs that economic activity had begun to pick up in the third quarter, growth for the year is likely to be minimal. (references)

Travel

Belgium

However, street thefts, purse snatching and pick pocketing are occurring more frequently. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

In October 2000, taxi drivers were warned by the PVSV not to pick up unaccompanied female passengers at risk of having their driving privileges revoked. (references)

Worker Rights

Kyrgyz Republic

During the fall, classes are cancelled, and children are sent to fields to pick cotton. (references)

Thailand

Illegal immigrants generally are repatriated as soon as possible; however, in order to implement the new policy of special treatment for victims of trafficking, Department of Public Welfare (DOPW) officials try to pick up underage and illegally entered women arrested for prostitution and house them in one of the government shelter houses. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pick": A bone to pick ♦ bone to pick ♦ bruised pick ♦ chafed pick ♦ crammed pick ♦ dead pick ♦ guitar pick ♦ have a bone to pick ♦ have a bone to pick with ♦ have a bone to pick with smb. ♦ have one's pick ♦ have the pick of ♦ have the pick of the basket ♦ ice pick ♦ loose pick ♦ mill pick ♦ missing pick ♦ pick a fight ♦ pick a fight with ♦ pick a fight with smb. ♦ pick a hole in one's coat ♦ pick a lock ♦ pick a quarrel ♦ pick a quarrel with ♦ pick a quarrel with smb. ♦ pick a winner ♦ pick acquaintance with ♦ pick and choose ♦ pick and steal ♦ pick and steel ♦ pick apart ♦ pick at ♦ pick BASIC ♦ pick berries ♦ Pick City ♦ pick clean ♦ pick courage ♦ Pick Disease of the Brain ♦ pick dressing ♦ pick flaws ♦ pick grapes ♦ pick hammer ♦ pick holes in ♦ pick holes in smb. ♦ pick holes in smth. ♦ pick in ♦ pick me up ♦ pick mushrooms ♦ pick oakum ♦ pick of ♦ pick of the basket ♦ pick off ♦ pick off a bird ♦ pick on ♦ pick one's food ♦ pick one's steps ♦ pick one's teeth ♦ pick one's way ♦ pick one's words ♦ pick oneself up ♦ pick out ♦ pick out as a central theme ♦ pick out the fallacy ♦ pick over ♦ pick pockets ♦ pick rags ♦ pick smb.'s brain ♦ pick smb.'s brains ♦ pick smb.'s nose ♦ pick smb.'s pocket ♦ pick smth. to pieces ♦ pick speed ♦ pick the culprit ♦ pick through ♦ pick to pieces ♦ pick up ♦ pick up a bargain ♦ pick up a language ♦ pick up a livehood ♦ pick up a living ♦ pick up a living by ♦ pick up again ♦ pick up arm ♦ pick up courage ♦ pick up from smb. ♦ pick up health ♦ pick up holes ♦ pick up knowledge ♦ pick up one's strenght ♦ pick up one's strength ♦ pick up only ♦ pick up reaction ♦ pick up scent ♦ pick up sides ♦ pick up smb. ♦ pick up speed ♦ pick up steam ♦ pick up strength ♦ pick up the bill ♦ pick up the gauntlet ♦ pick up the glove. Additional references.

Beginning with "pick": pick-a-back, pick-a-landlord, pick-and-mix, pick-and-shovel, pick-a-stick, pick-a-sticks, pick-axe, pick-axes, pick-based, pick-basic, pick-compatible, pick-derived, Pick-fault, pick-found, pick-handle, pick-helve, pick-lists, pick-lock, pick-locks, pick-men, Pick-me-up, pick-off, pick-pick-picking, pick-pocket, pick-pocketing, pick-pockets, pick-popper, pick-stitching, pick-stroke, Pick-under-unix, Pick-up, pick-up car, pick-up traffic, pick-up-able, pick-up-ey, pick-up-point, pick-ups, pick-your-own.

Ending with "pick": ice-pick.

Containing "pick": ice-pick-wielding, Niemann-Pick disease, Niemann-Pick Diseases.

Afrikaans

aftrek (absent onself, demand, depart, discount, go away, leave, pluck, rebate, retreat, sale, subtract, tear, tear off), afskeur (pluck, tear, tear off), afruk (pluck, tear, tear off). (various references)

Albanian

përlaj (bag, carry away, collar, devour, filch, mulct, plunder, poach, pocket, purloin, put away, strip, wangle), pjesë më e mirë (fat), pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear up, defecate, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try), çukit (dab), ajkë (choice, cream, elite, prime, whip), gërmoj (break ground, cave, dig, dig out, dig up, excavate, grub, hollow out, Mold, mole, mould, poke about, rout), ha maja-maja (Peck), hap me tel, këpus (break, depauperate, exhaust, pick off, pluck, pull, Tucker), kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, postulate, quest, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), kazmë (Mattock, pickax), çukis (dab), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), zgjedhje (choice, discretion, election, exposition, matching, option, poll, selection), qëroj (blanch, clean, clear, cut out, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, pare, Peel, pick off, pinch, poach, rind, scale, shell, waste, whip, zap), rrjep (bark, bleed, deplume, flay, Peel, soak), sasi e mbledhur, shpuploj (deplume, pluck), të vjela (vintage), zgjedh (choose, constitute, cull, disentangle, draft, draught, elect, embrace, opt, pick out, select, single out, solve, take), kruaj (abrade, chafe, dress, dub, fret, grate, scratch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عزف (execute, fiddle, lute, perform, play, play away, render, set a piano, strike), ‏ريشة العازف (plectron, plectrum, quill), ‏ثقت, ‏أخذ (catch, gather, occupy, reception, take), ‏أكل بتأنق, ‏إختيار (chosen, draft, election, option, picking, sampler, selection, volition), ‏إحتج (allege, complain, demur, deprecate, expostulate, grouse, nag, object, protest, remonstrate, represent, take exception to, yell), ‏إلتقط (contract, glean, lock onto, pick up, pick up smb.), ‏الخلالة للأسنان, ‏القطفة أو الجنية, ‏جني الثمار, ‏خلل أسنانه, ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), ‏ضايق (aggrieve, annoy, bully, distress, disturb, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, harry, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, rag, rattle, saddle, torment), ‏فتح قفلا بآلة مستدقة, ‏سرق (convey, crib, crook, filch, hook, lift, misappropriate, mooch, nick, nobble, pinch, plunder, purloin, rip off, rob, sack, sneak, steal, swipe, thieve, walk off with), ‏سرق مقادير صغيرة (pilfer), ‏سعى للمشاكل, ‏حفر بالمعول (pickaxe), ‏قطف (cull, picking season, pluck), ‏نشال (light fingered, pickpocket, predator), ‏نشل (buy up, palm, pinch, snaffle, sneak, twitch), ‏نقر وتر العود, ‏مارس النشل, ‏مص (absorption, lick, licking, siphon, suck, suck out, sucking up, suckle, suction), ‏معول (depending on, hoe, mattock, pickaxe, reliant, relying on), ‏ضربة بأداة مستدقة الرأس. (various references)

Blackfoot

o'kaasat (to pick up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

беритба, избирам (choose, cull, elect, make, mark down, name, opt, pick out, put in, return, select, settle on, single out, sort out), открадвам (kidnap, make away with, nip, nobble, pinch, pull, purloin, run away with, snatch, steal, walk away with, walk off with), отварям ключалка с шперц, мотика (digger, hack, hoe), махам (clean off, flap, get away, lash, motion, pull off, remove, rip away, switch, take away, wag, waggle), елит (elite, flower, top drawer), влача вълна, бера (gather, pluck, suppurate), кирка (mandrel, mandrill, pecker, pickax), прехвърляне на совалка, предизвиквам (arouse, bring, bring on, dare, defy, elicit, engender, fly in the face of, give birth, give rise to, give to rise, induce, instigate, invite, outbrave, provoke, raise, rouse, set up, shape up, sow, stump, throw out a challenge, touch off, urge, work up), подбирам (assail, cull, extract, go for smb., herd, match, pick out, pick over, rail at, round up, select, winnow), плектър (plectrum, quill), изчиствам от възли, изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick up, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), избор (alternative, assortment, choice, election, option, selection), бране, цвят (bloom, blossom, blow, color, coloring, colour, colouring, flower, hue, inflorescence, suit, tint, tone), удар на совалка, разчоплям, разчепквам (card, pick out, tease), разкъсвам (bait, dismember, lacerate, pull, rend, rift, rip up, rupture, tear, tear asunder, tear off, tear open, tear up), разкъртвам (pry loose, rip up), разнищвам (decompose, disentangle, tease, unravel), оскубвам (deplume, displume, fleece, gaff, pluck, pluck out, plume, pull, rush, shear, tear out), чистя (clean, discard, dress, mop, Slough, stone, unload), удар с кирка, търся повод, търнокоп (pickax), късам (pull, tear), къртя (flop, peg at, peg away), кълва (cram, dab, mug, nibble), копая с кирка, каймак (butterfat, cream), чопля. (various references)

Catalan

triar (choose, elect, pick out), buscar (fetch, get, pick up). (various references)

Chinese 

采撷, 採摘 (pluck), 掐 (to analyze, to divide, to pinch, to separate), 抉 (bright, dig, radiant), 撮 (bring together, gather up, little bit, shovel), 剔 , 叉 (be stuck, cross, fork, intersect, pitchfork, prong, to cross, to diverge, to open). (various references)

Czech

párat se (rip), párátko, vybírat (choose, collect, handpick, pick out, take out), výbìr (access, assortment, choice, digest, miscellany, range, selection, variety), trhat (blast, gather, mammock, pick(up), pluck, scarify, tug, worry), sbírat (colect, collect, gather, glean, save), rozebrat (analyse, dismantle, dismember, overhaul, pick to pieces, strip, take apart, take to pieces), okrást (Rob, trim), krumpáè (hack, Mattock, pickax, pickaxe), kopat (dig, kick, kick out), dobírat si (kid, sneer, tease), špice (gad, picker, prong, tine). (various references)

Danish

stikke (stab, sting), plukke (pluck, tear off). (various references)

Dutch

plukken (collect, gather, pick up, pluck, tear off), knabbelen (gnaw off, nibble), afkluiven (gnaw off). (various references)

Esperanto

pluki (pluck), piki (stab, sting), dentskrapi (gnaw off), deŝiri (pluck, tear off). (various references)

Faeroese

prika (stab, sting), skræða leysan (pluck, tear off), royta (pluck, rip, tear), henta (harvest, pluck). (various references)

Farsi 

کلنگ (Hack), باخلال پاک کردن , دزدیدن (Embezzle, Peak, Picaroonp, Prig, Purloin, Rifle, Rob, Spoliate, Steal, Thieve), خلال دندان (Toothpick), خلال دندان بکاربردن , خلال گوش , برگزیدن (Designate, Elect, Elite, Prefer, Single), مضراب , کندن (Cutout, Dig, Gouge, Gully, Mine, Peel, Pluck, Pug, Pull, Rend, Scoop, Trench), ناخنک زدن , نوک زدن به , چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Cut, Lop, Mow, Pare, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip, Trim), هرنوع الت نوک تیز, عیبجوءی کردن (Henpeck, Nag). (various references)

Finnish

poiminta, pistää (bite, prick, put, stab, stick, sting), valita (choose, elect, pick out, select), nyppiä (pluck), nukkautuminen (picking, plucking), noukkia (gather), kuderyhmä, kudelanka (filling, shoot, shot, shute, weft, woof), kude (weft), koukku (hanger, hook), kaivella, kaivaa (burrow, cut, delve, dig, dig out, disinter, drive, excavate, exhume, grub, spade), isku (blow, impact, knock, stab, stroke), hakku (pickaxe), haka (bolt, clasp, hook, pasture paddock). (various references)

French

piquer (Pike, pinch, pique), cueillir (pick off), rivelaine, pioche (pickaxe, pick-axe). (various references)

Frisian

ôfskuorre (pluck, tear off), ôfroppe (pluck, tear off), ôfbrekke (break, break down, break off, demolish, interrupt, pluck, pull down, stop, take down, tear off). (various references)

German

wählen (adopt, be decided, choose, chosen, dial, elect, hold a ballot, make one's choice, opt, pick out, polling, return, select, take, take a ballot, to ballot (for), to choose, to select, vote, vote in, voting), rupfen (fleece, gunny, hessian, pluck, pull up), Pickel (doohickey, pickax, pickaxes, pimple, spot, spottiness, zit), pflücken (cull, gather, pick off, pluck, tear off, to gather, to pluck), abpflücken. (various references)

Greek 

συλλέγω (cluster, collect, compile, gather, raise, rake, roundup), αξίνα (hoe, ice pick, pickax), διαλέγω (choose, elect, garble, go for, pick out, select, single somebody out, sort). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעדר (hack, hoe, pickaxe), מכוש (hoe, pickaxe), ללקט (collect, compile, cull, gather, glean), לקטוף (cull, pluck), לעדור (cultivate, dig, hoe), לארות (gather, pluck), לבחור (choose, opt, select), לבצור (harvest), לנקר, דקר (drill, hoe, stab), בחירה (choice, choosing, election, option, selection), בררה (alternative, choice, option, possibility, selection, way). (various references)

Hungarian

csákány (hack, hacker, pecker, pickax, pickaxe, picker, pike). (various references)

Indonesian

terbaik (best, gem, optimum), mengalap (abduct), mencomot (grab and hold, nab, snatch off), memetik (cull, pluck), beliung (adze, carpenter adze, hatchet, pickax). (various references)

Italian

staccare (divide, knock off, pluck, remove, separate, stand out, take, tear, tear off, tear out), scegliere (choose, cull, elect, pick out, select, single, single out, to choose), rompere (breach, break, crash, pluck, smash, snap, tear, tear off, violate), raccogliere (collect, collect one's thoughts, crop, gather, harvest, harvests, make a collection of, pick up, pull, raise, rally, reap, recollect, save, scoop, scoop up, sweep up, take in), pungere (bite, burn, prick, stab, sting, tingle), piccone (hack, Mattock, pickax, pickaxe). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ピストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt), 撥 (plectrum). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ピック , ばち (curse, plectrum, punishment, retribution). (various references)

Korean 

후비는 물건. (various references)

Malay

pilih (choose, elect, pick out), mengumpulkan (collect, gather, pick up), memilih (choose, elect, pick out), kumpulkan (collect, gather, pick up), ambil ... mengambil (bring, fetch, get, pick up). (various references)

Manx

teiy (ballot, balloting, choice, choose, cream, cream best, cull, discrimination, division; tomahawk, gather, highlight; selection, pick over, poll; prime, select, vote), speiy (bill, bill-hook, hack, hew, hoe, mattock), shuilgey (nibble). (various references)

Mohawk

-hyakwas (to pick fruit). (various references)

Norwegian

plukke i, pirke, velge (elect), stikke (jab, stab, sting), hakke (hack, hoe). (various references)

Papiamen

skohe (choose, elect, pick out), kolektá (collect, gather, pick up), kis (choose, elect, pick out), eskohé (choose, elect, pick out), eligí (choose, elect, pick out). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickpay.(various references)

Polish

wziąć (get, lay hold of, pick up, take), wybrać (choose, elect, pick out), wybierać (choose, elect, pick out), brać (get, lay hold of, pick up, take). (various references)

Portuguese

picareta (hack, mattock, moil, pecker, pickax, pickaxe), picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pique, point, prick, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), colher (berry, collect, crop, drag out, garner, gather, gather a crop, gather a harvest, harvest, pick off, pick up, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, spoon, tear off). (various references)

Romanian

plectru, panã (arrow, break down, chock, cleat, cotter, failure, feather, Gib, injury, jaw, peg, pen, pinion, plug, plume, puncture, quill, quill pen, Spike, wedge), pic (a wee bit, atom, bead, bit, crumb, dash, drop, jot, pennyworth, spark, spot, sprinkle, touch, whit), piguli, goli de bani, fura din, fi pus pe (be out for), instrument cu vârful ascuţit, curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash, wipe), lua (acquire, assume, assume a name, book, bring, catch, clasp, clear away, confiscate, conquer, contact, contract, draw, extract, finger, form, get, have, hire, interpret, jerk off, keep off, lay hands on, lay hold of, load, Mount, nim, pick up, pocket, pouch, receive, snatch, start, take), culege flori, culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, gather, glean, mow, pick up, pluck, reap, set up, take up), critica (animadvert, arraign, attack, carp, censure, condemn, criticize, defame, judge, lash, pick holes in, preach down, pull to pieces, slate), ciupi (filch, goose, nip, pinch, pit, pluck, twang, tweak), ciuguli (nibble, nip, Peck, pick up, piddle, preen), bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), alegere (alternative, balloting, choice, choosing, election, option, preference, return, selection, separation, voting), deschide ci şperaclul, alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, glean, Peel, pick on, pick out, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow), literã murdarã, vârî (Bob, creep, crib, dab, dig, dip, drive, duck, engraft in, immerse, impress, introduce, involve, jab, Lodge, poke, pull up, put in, stab, stick, Stow, stuff, thrust, tuck), mânca puţin (Peck), sãpa (burrow, cave, cut, delve, dig, drive, engraft, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hole, hollow, inscribe, lift, mine, sink, spud, trench, undermine), scobi (cave, dig, groove, gutter, hew out, hole, hollow, Peck, recess), se scobi (hollow), selecţie (choice, choosing, selection), selecta (choose, cull, garble, select), sfeterisi (knock off, lift, make away with, nobble, prig, sneak), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crack, crush, cut, dash, destroy, flaw, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), târnãcop (hacker, pecker, pickax, picker), jumuli (disrobe, fleece, pick off, pluck, Rob, shave, shear). (various references)

Russian 

собирать (amass, assemble, build up, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, erect, gather, get together, levy, make up, pick up, raise, scoop in, scoop up), выбирать (bouse, bows, choose, chose, chosen, elect, fetch, opt, pick out, round in, select, selects, single out, take). (various references)

Scottish

pioc. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prinos (income, proceeds, yield), prčkati (peddle, potter), ubrati (collect, reap), sakupiti (assemble, collect, gather), odabrati (cull, pick out, select, tell off), mrljica (speck, speckle), izbor (adoption, assortment, availability, choice, election, option, pick of, selection), izabrati (choose, chose, elect, number among, opt, pick out, select), brati (gather), alat sa šiljkom, čačkati (monkey, tamper). (various references)

Spanish

pico (beak, bill, capstan, dive, extremity, lip, lips, mountain peak, mountain top, pap, peak, pinnacle, spout, woodpecker), picar (bite, chop, cut up, dive, goad, grind, harass, hash, itch, jab, key in, lip, mince, needle, nibble, nip, ping, pink, pique, pit, pound, prick, prickle, prod, punch, smart, stab, stick, sting). (various references)

Sranan

teki (get, lay hold of, pick up, take), dyunta (collect, gather, pick up). (various references)

Swedish

plocka (cull, deplume, gather, Peck, pluck), peta (drop, poke), hacka (cavil, chop, chopper, find fault, hack, haggle, hash, hesitate, hoe, little cash, Mattock, mince, nag, Peck, pickax, plain card, small card, stammer), dyrka upp. (various references)

Tagalog

kúnin (get, lay hold of, pick up, take). (various references)

Thai

มีเรื่องโต้แย้งกับบางคน (have a bone to pick with someone). (various references)

Turkish

kazmak (cave, cave in, dig, disinter, excavate, grub, hole, hollow, hollow out, mine, pick up, sink, spud, trench), çekiştirmek (back bite, backbite, criticize maliciously, denigrate, hitch), ayıklamak (clean out, comb out, grub up, pick over, pluck, select, sort, sort out, weed out, weed up, winnow), burun karıştırma, delmek (bore, broach, dig into, dig through, drill, hole, make a hole in, perforate, Pierce, pink, prick, puncture, ream, ream out, Spike, stab, stave in, stick), didiklemek (forage, grub, grub up, pick to pieces, tease out), gagası ile toplamak, hasat (crop, harvest, Ingathering, reaping, take), küçük küçük yemek, kürdan (toothpick), çapalamak (grub, grub up, hoe, spud, spud out, spud up), kazma (dig, digger, digging, excavation, Mattock, pickax, pickaxe, Pike), yolmak (flake, pluck, pull, Rive, tear), kemirmek (corrode, eat, erode, fret, gnaw, nibble), koparmak (break, break off, cozen, cut off, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), seçenek (alternative, choice, option, selection), seçip almak, seçme (choice, choosing, co-optation, digest, eclectic, picked, recherche, sampling, select, selection, spotting), seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick out, plump for, postulate, select, single out, spot), sivri birşeyle açmak, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), toplanan ürün miktarı, yankesicilik yapmak (pick pockets), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave). (various references)

Turkmen 

synзgamak (poke), яygmak (gather), зokmak (bite, peck). (various references)

Ukrainian

удар (bat, beat, biff, bobbing, buffet, bunt, cant, chop, clap, cracker, hit, impact, impingement, impulsion, jolt, kick, knock, onslaught, percussion, push, put, shock, shot, smite, spat, stab, strike, stroke, tick, tilt, wap), сортувати (assort, class, grade, sort), шукати (hunt for, look for, quest, search, seek), краща частина (pride), колупати, відщіпувати, відбір (choice, election, selection), вибирати (adopt, choose, elect, opt, pick on, select, single out), збирати (agglomerate, amass, assemble, bag, canvass, carry, collect, compile, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, gather, gather in, levy, make up, muster, pick in, summon, win). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phần tinh hoa, phần tốt nhất (cream), xoi, xỉa, sự chọn lọc (selection), sự chọn lựa người được chọn, cái được chọn phần chọn lọc, đục (feculent, troubled). (various references)

Welsh

pigo (peck, prick, sting), dichlyn (careful, choose, circumspect, exact), dethol (choose, select). (various references)

Yucatec

bisik (get, lay hold of, pick up, take). (various references)

Zulu

-vota (choose, elect, pick out, vote), -thatha (get, lay hold of, pick up, take), -landa (fetch, get, pick up), -khetha (choose, elect, pick out). (various references)

dilecta, dilectae, dilectam, dilecte, dilecti, dilectis, dilecto, dilectos, dilectum, dilectus, dilexerat, dilexerimus, dilexeris, dilexerit, dilexerunt, dilexi, dilexisset, dilexisti, dilexit, diligam, diligamus, diligant, diligas, diligat, diligatis, diligatur, dilige, diligebam, diligebant, diligebat, diligens, diligentes, diligenti, diligentia, diligentibus, diligentis, diligentium, diligere, diligerent, diligeret, diligeretis, diliges, diliget, diligetis, diligetur, diligimus, diligis, diligit, diligite, diligitis, diligo, diligunt. (various references)

picosa. (various references)

coillir. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "pick": pickaback, pickabacked, pickabacking, pickabacks, pickadil, pickadils, pickaninnies, pickaninny, pickaroon, pickaroons, pickax, pickaxe, pickaxed, pickaxes, pickaxing, picked, pickeer, pickeered, pickeering, pickeers, picker, pickerel, pickerels, pickerelweed, pickerelweeds, pickers, picket, picketboat, picketboats, picketed, picketer, picketers, picketing, pickets, pickier, pickiest, picking, pickings, pickle, pickled, pickles, pickling, picklock, picklocks, pickoff, pickoffs, pickpocket, pickpockets, pickproof, picks, pickthank. (additional references)

Words ending with "pick": fingerpick, handpick, nitpick, nutpick, spick, toothpick, unpick. (additional references)

Words containing "pick": counterpicket, counterpicketed, counterpicketing, counterpickets, fingerpicked, fingerpicking, fingerpickings, fingerpicks, handpicked, handpicking, handpicks, nitpicked, nitpicker, nitpickers, nitpickier, nitpickiest, nitpicking, nitpicks, nitpicky, nutpicks, ragpicker, ragpickers, spicks, toothpicks, unpicked, unpicking, unpicks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apack, Bpic, epick, ick, ipk, Pakok, pci, Peack, phic, picc, pich, picka, pico, Pieck, piek, pik, pikka, piko, pilk, pinck, pirk, pisk, piuck, pixk, ptik, Pucik, puick, pyc, Pyck, zick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ick, kip, pic.

-2 letters: pi.

+1 letter: picks, picky, prick, spick.

+2 letters: bipack, kickup, pickax, picked, picker, picket, pickle, pickup, pricks, pricky, pyknic, spicks, unpick, uptick.

+3 letters: bipacks, cockpit, cuplike, duckpin, kickups, kingcup, nitpick, nutpick, packing, panicky, peckier, pecking, peckish, pickaxe, pickeer, pickers, pickets, pickier, picking, pickled, pickles, pickoff, pickups, piddock, pockier, pockily, pocking, pricked, pricker, pricket, prickle, prickly, puckish, pyknics, skeptic, stickup, topkick, tripack, unpicks, upticks, wickape, wickiup, wickyup.