Word Finder - pick

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A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

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A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

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A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

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A choice; ability to choose.

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That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

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A screen.

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An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

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An interception.

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A good defensive play by an infielder.

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A pickoff.

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A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

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A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

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A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

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A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

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That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

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The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

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so many picks to an inch

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To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

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Don't pick at that scab.

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To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

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It's time to pick the tomatoes.

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To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

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She picked flowers in the meadow.

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To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

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to pick rags

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To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

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to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket

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To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

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I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

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To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.

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To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.

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He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.

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To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

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He picked a tune on his banjo.

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To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

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To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

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To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

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I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.

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To steal; to pilfer.

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To throw; to pitch.

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To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

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To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

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to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

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To screen.