Word Finder - picking

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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.

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A gathering to pick fruit.

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We went to a strawberry picking last June.

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(usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.

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(usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.

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Something picked or pulled out.

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The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.

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The act of making a choice; selection.

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The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.

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The removal of defects from electrotype plates.

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Dabbing in stoneworking.

She stood, picking up a plate.

Picking up a fork, he paused, smiling as he eyed her mischievously.

They shouldered the full canteens and, picking up their rifles, started back to the camp.

Mildred is out in the yard playing, and mother is picking the delicious strawberries.

We're picking up information in Maryland and we tagged where the family did in the Wassermann boys.

Lisa washed her hands and put the biscuits in the oven before picking her up.

He picked up a piece of straw and leaned his back against the tree, picking his teeth.

Instead he was withdrawn and somber, even picking at his food.

Howie spotted Cummings picking up Jennie Lohr as she hitchhiked to town from her rural Kansas farm.

Tell me that, Dean continued, picking up a large bone and looking at it closely.

Deidre studied her, picking up other signs of how different they were.

Carmen was alone in the living room picking up wrapping paper when the men returned.

Finally she got up from the table and went through the motion of picking seaweed and shells, and splashing in the water, holding up her skirts higher than was proper under the circumstances.

Picking his glass up, he took a sip before answering.

Picking up clothes for him.

Picking up the glass of orange juice, he took a swallow.

Howie had taken to picking at his fingers when the tension built.

Two men got out and one reached in the back, picking up a case.

The translator was not always good at picking up every word, but she didn't need the translation of the unknown word.

You were picking up on my surprise.

The two bikers had started down a slight but long downhill, less than a bike length apart, picking up speed as they rolled along.

Picking the best requires some education.

He's very meticulous about picking the right song.

Planting, pruning, tidying litter picking, helping to put up notice board!

You can find carpet showrooms and stores near you by picking up your local yellow pages and looking up the word "carpet."

Picking a coffee table to match the rest of the furniture in a room can take a lot of effort.

Just like any other piece of clothing or sporting equipment, picking the right football jersey can be a difficult decision and several factors can come into play.

There is in the cotton states a rural population of over 7,000,000, more or less occupied in cottongrowing, and capable, at the low average of ioo lb a day, of picking daily nearly 50o,000 bales.

After the seedlings appear, thinning is completed in usually three successive hoeings, the plants being watered after thinning, and subsequently at intervals of from twelve to fifteen days, until about the end of August when picking commences.

These pickers go carefully over the field, usually just before the second picking, and gather ripe cotton from the best plants only; this selected seed cotton is ginned separately, and the seed used for sowing the next year's crop.

Kutusov had now overtaken the French, but fortunately for them he made no effort to close with them, but hung on their flank, molesting them with Cossacks and picking up stragglers.

Ultimately on the 18th of May the march was renewed, but the allies had continued their retreat in leisurely fashion, picking up reinforcements by the way.

The plant is indigenous and grows well, but, unlike cacau, it requires much manual labour in its cultivation and picking and does not seem to be favoured by the planters.

Picking up on his way such reinforcements as were available, he marched southward with all speed behind the Vosges, and in the last stages of the movement he even split up his forces into many small bodies, that the enemy's spies might be misled.

In this form, which is found in British field artillery, the goniometric or dial sight is used for picking up the line of fire.

The manufacture of great quantities of coke has resulted from the demand for this product in the iron and steel industry and from the abundance of coking coal; the manufacture of glass has been promoted by the supply of glass sand and natural gas in the west of the state; the manufacture of leather by the abundance of hemlock bark; the manufacture of pottery, terra-cotta and fire-clay products by the abundance of raw material; the manufacture of silk and silk goods by the large number of women and girls who came into the state in families of which the men and boys were employed in mining and picking anthracite coal; and in each of these industries as well as in a few others the state has for many years produced a large portion of the country's product.

Until recently the final separation of the diamond from the concentrates was made by hand picking, but even this has now been replaced by machinery, owing to the remarkable discovery that a greased surface will hold a diamond while allowing the other heavy minerals to pass over it.

After remaining two days at the Pole to secure sufficient observations to fix the position, Amundsen and his party returned to Framheim in 38 days, picking up the depots in succession and making an average of 23 m.

The air passes down through its regenerator, picking up the heat deposited there, and thereby having its temperature restored and its pressure raised.

A Cornish, army marched straight on London, picking up some supporters in Devon and Somerset on their way, including a discontented baron, Lord Audley, whom they made their captain.

They move slowly, picking their course by means of their antennae.

In this way a mixture of the two asparagines was obtained, which were separated by picking out the hemihedral crystals.

While Fred was outside picking a boutonniere for the occasion, his now marginally wealthy flame of fame—locally at least— called a second time.

And you, un-mated by the half-breed, are ripe for the picking.

I just got my first commission ever, and I think my displays at Kevin's gallery are picking up interest.

The logical answer is a child—Donnie or Martha, picking it up out of curiosity.

Picking up a hitch-hiker, giving a homeless person a dollar— things like that.

Vinnie began to rummage through the ashtray, finally picking out a butt left over from Ethel Rosewater.

Guitar wunderkind Bryan Sutton also whipped up a froth with his hot picking ably abetted by a roster of great talents.

This is somewhat analogous to picking the " best " vacation spot, or the " best " outfit to wear.