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To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
example
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.
example
to pick rags
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To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
example
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.
example
to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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To screen.