Dictionary Entry
pick
pick is a 4-letter English word with 41 senses as verb, intransitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To throw; to pitch. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 41 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
To throw; to pitch.
- 2verb
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.
- 3verb
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
- 4verb
To open (a lock) as by a wire.
- 5verb
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
- 6verb
To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
- 7verb
To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.
- 8verb
To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
- 9verb
To trim.
- 10intransitive verb
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
- 11intransitive verb
To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
- 12intransitive verb
To steal; to pilfer.
- 13noun
A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
- 14noun
A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- 15noun
A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
- 16noun
Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
- 17noun
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
- 18noun
A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
- 19noun
That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
- 20noun
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
- 21noun
the act of choosing or selecting
"your choice of colors was unfortunate"
"you can take your pick"
- 22noun
a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body
"he was called for setting an illegal pick"
- 23noun
a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends
"they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"
- 24noun
a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material
"he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks"
- 25noun
a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
- 26noun
the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving
- 27noun
the person or thing chosen or selected
"he was my pick for mayor"
- 28noun
the best people or things in a group
"the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"
Synonyms
- 29noun
the quantity of a crop that is harvested
"he sent the first picking of berries to the market"
"it was the biggest peach pick in years"
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- 30verb
remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
"Clean the turkey"
Synonyms
- 31verb
remove in small bits
"pick meat from a bone"
- 32verb
select carefully from a group
"She finally picked her successor"
"He picked his way carefully"
- 33verb
harass with constant criticism
"Don't always pick on your little brother"
Synonyms
- 34verb
eat intermittently; take small bites of
"He pieced at the sandwich all morning"
"She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
- 35verb
hit lightly with a picking motion
- 36verb
look for and gather
"pick mushrooms"
"pick flowers"
- 37verb
attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example
"Pick open the ice"
- 38verb
pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
"he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
- 39verb
provoke
"pick a fight or a quarrel"
- 40verb
pay for something
"pick up the tab"
"pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"
Synonyms
- 41verb
pilfer or rob
"pick pockets"
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