Word Finder - picks

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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.

This coloring matter, as shown by its absorption spectrum, picks out of the ordinary beam of light a large proportion of its red and blue rays, together with some of the green and yellow.

I buy my pecans from someone who picks and shells them himself.

In the breeding season the male deposits drops of sperm on a sheet of webbing, picks it up in these flasks by means of capillary attraction and carries it about until he falls in with a female.

From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.

One is to hold the transducer that picks up the FHR and the other is to hold a tocodynanometer, which picks up uterine activity or contractions.

The cloth is woven "one end up and two ends down," and as there are more picks of weft per inch than ends of warp the diagonal lines pass from selvage to selvage at an angle of less than 45 degrees.

There is a kind of anticipation of the scientific spirit in the careful zeal with which he picks up odd aspects of mankind and comments upon them as he places them in his museum.

Copper was known to them, and it is possible that they knew how to make cutting instruments from it, but they generally used stone axes, hammers and picks, and their most dangerous weapon was a war-club into which chips of volcanic glass were set.

Long iron picks (16), like those of moderp navvies, were made by Greeks in the XXVIth Dynasty.

The most important of these are the Kuban and the Terek; but it is the latter that picks up most of the streams which have their sources among the central glaciers, e.g.

But the absence of the long-shaped implements, so characteristic of the Neolithic and Palaeolithic series, and serviceable as picks, hatchets, and chisels, shows remarkable limitation in the mind of these savages, who made a broad, hand-grasped knife their tool of all work to cut, saw, and chop with.

The bottom of the cell is formed by those threads and picks which weave "plain," while the ascending sides of the figure are formed by the gradually increasing length of float of the warp and weft yarns.

Maybe not in your blueberry muffin world but anyone who spent as much time as this guy in prison picks up a classroom of connections.

From a distance, the marble of the Taj Mahal picks up the subtle nuancesof the changing light.

A ditch about 2m deep was dug, with picks made of deer antlers.

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As speed picks up and when cruising the gasoline engine cuts in so that the gasoline and electric motor drive the car together.

Hold guitar plectrums or guitar picks in an easy to use guitar pick plectrum holder.

There's lots of obdurate blocking before he picks up a couple with a well-timed forward prod.

But perhaps I am still too young, and haven't the strength yet to defend myself against whoever picks quarrels for no reason.

Nobody sees through lazy, derivative programs sharper, and nobody picks up on diminishing returns quicker, than the ordinary TV viewer.

They have carried out some major litter picks which have involved the removal of fly-tipped waste, including a motorcycle sidecar!

The combine picks up the rows and harvests the seed, chopping the stalks and spreading them as it goes along.

Our peninsula picks up Atlantic swells through a " surf window " between the SW of the UK and Ireland.

It connects to the TV using the Scart and picks up digital telly!

The whole body picks up on the messages from the fingers, becoming tense, rigid, fixated.

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He picks up three off Warne's over with a little tickle down to fine leg.

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I try to be more optimistic, think... " The cassette barely picks up his voice, it is so tremulous and uncaring.

The main lithic finds include microliths, particularly scalene triangles, and irregularly shaped picks made mostly of cherty limestone.

At length the sun's rays have attained the right angle, and warm winds blow up mist and rain and melt the snowbanks, and the sun, dispersing the mist, smiles on a checkered landscape of russet and white smoking with incense, through which the traveller picks his way from islet to islet, cheered by the music of a thousand tinkling rills and rivulets whose veins are filled with the blood of winter which they are bearing off.

But perhaps I am still too young, and have n't the strength yet to defend myself against whoever picks quarrels for no reason.

Across a searing, unending plain of sand, an isolated camel train picks its way toward the shelter of a scrawny tree.

They have carried out some major litter picks which have involved the removal of fly-tipped waste, including a motorcycle sidecar !

It picks up the texture of the fairly smooth cartridge paper I 'm using, creating a stippled areas in the shadows.

It connects to the TV using the Scart and picks up digital telly !

Thieving scouser (cultural stereotype, no accusations intended) Steve Gerrard picks up the all things footie award for stating the obvious....

He picks up three off Warne 's over with a little tickle down to fine leg.

I try to be more optimistic, think... The cassette barely picks up his voice, it is so tremulous and uncaring.

He picks himself up after much wobbling and balancing and manages to get up the bridge and down the other side.

The rest of the walls can be a Benjamin Moore Dove Gray, which is a nice off-white color that picks up on hues from an accent wall.

These could include a bottle, pacifier, bottle brush, bulb syringe, thermometer, nail clippers, pacifier holder, booties, etc. Blindfold the mom-to-be, and watch her try to guess each of the items as she picks one up out of the bag.

Select a fabric for the chair that picks up either a darker shade of the wall color of the accent color in the room.

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People who use this type of banjo don't use picks.

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