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

1. verb. To throw; to pitch.
2. verb. 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.
3. verb. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
4. verb. To open (a lock) as by a wire.
5. verb. 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.
6. verb. 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.
7. verb. 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.
8. verb. 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.
9. verb. To trim.
10. intransitive verb. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
11. intransitive verb. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
12. intransitive verb. To steal; to pilfer.
13. noun. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
14. noun. 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.
15. noun. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
16. noun. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
17. noun. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
18. noun. 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.
19. noun. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
20. noun. 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.
21. noun. the act of choosing or selecting

    "your choice of colors was unfortunate"

    "you can take your pick"

    Synonyms: choice, option, selection

22. noun. a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body

    "he was called for setting an illegal pick"

23. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe

24. noun. a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material

    "he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks"

25. noun. a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

    Synonyms: plectron, plectrum

26. noun. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

    Synonyms: filling, weft, woof

27. noun. the person or thing chosen or selected

    "he was my pick for mayor"

    Synonyms: choice, selection

28. noun. the best people or things in a group

    "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"

    Synonyms: cream

29. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: picking

30. verb. remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits

    "Clean the turkey"

    Synonyms: clean

31. verb. remove in small bits

    "pick meat from a bone"

32. verb. select carefully from a group

    "She finally picked her successor"

    "He picked his way carefully"

33. verb. harass with constant criticism

    "Don't always pick on your little brother"

    Synonyms: blame

34. verb. eat intermittently; take small bites of

    "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"

    "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

    Synonyms: nibble, piece

35. verb. hit lightly with a picking motion

    Synonyms: beak, peck

36. verb. look for and gather

    "pick mushrooms"

    "pick flowers"

    Synonyms: cull, pluck

37. verb. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

    "Pick open the ice"

38. verb. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

    "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"

    Synonyms: pluck, plunk

39. verb. provoke

    "pick a fight or a quarrel"

40. verb. pay for something

    "pick up the tab"

    "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"

    Synonyms: foot

41. verb. pilfer or rob

    "pick pockets"

Synonyms

choice, option, selection, pickax, pickaxe, plectron, plectrum, filling, weft, woof, cream, picking, clean, blame, nibble, piece, beak, peck, cull, pluck, plunk, foot

Common word forms

picks, picked, picker, picking, pickable

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