pick
verb
[ pɪk ]
• detach and remove (a flower, fruit, or vegetable) from where it is growing.
• "I went to pick some flowers for Jenny's room"
Similar:
harvest,
gather (in),
collect,
take in,
pluck,
pull,
dig,
crop,
reap,
bring home,
glean,
garner,
cull,
• choose (someone or something) from a number of alternatives.
• "maybe I picked the wrong career after all"
Similar:
choose,
select,
pick out,
single out,
include,
hand-pick,
decide on,
settle on,
fix on,
sift out,
sort out,
take,
prefer,
favour,
opt for,
plump for,
vote for,
elect,
name,
nominate,
adopt,
designate,
assign,
appoint,
allot,
identify,
specify,
mention,
cite,
• make (a hole) in fabric by pulling at it with one's fingers.
• "she picked a hole in her tights"
• pluck the strings of (a guitar or banjo).
• "people were singing and picking guitars"
pick
noun
• an act or the right of selecting something from a number of alternatives.
• "take your pick from our extensive menu"
• an act of blocking or screening a defensive player from the ball handler.
Origin:
Middle English (earlier as pike, which continues in dialect use): of unknown origin. Compare with Dutch pikken ‘pick, peck’, and German picken ‘peck, puncture’, also with French piquer ‘to prick’.
pick
noun
• 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.
• an instrument for picking.
• "an ebony hair pick"
Origin:
Middle English: variant of pike2.
