Word Finder - pick

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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.

You'd better call one of the girls to pick you up.

No. I only wanted to pick up a few pictures and pay some bills.

I'll soon pick it up.

As it was, the kids might pick up on her fear and emulate.

I can pick you up at the hospital after work and we can spend the night up there.

We could stop by and pick her up.

And you didn't pick them?

There's a bunch of run away kids; I could try to pick the most likely but none of them look promising.

Someone will have to pick her up at the airport, but she can stay with Jonathan at the house.

The only thing he had to say to me was that I should get you or Julia to pick me up.

I'll tell Howard to get everything together and you can drop by to pick it up next week.

Oh, he lets me pet him now, but he doesn't want me to pick him up.

We'll pick you up.

Connie is taking me by to pick it up.

Too bad you couldn't pick where your dream would take you.

When Sarah learned of her plan to go to the house and pick up some things, she insisted there was no reason to stay.

She could pick them up on the way back.

I figured he would pick up on things I wouldn't.

She can't pick up anything past this point.

No. You list cases and we pick and choose.

I'll pick you up in the morning.

I told him for years to take notes so our other scientists can pick up wherever he left off.

Which did you pick, Marian?

On the spur of the moment you pick up the suitcases, put them in your trunk, and drive off.

The Elasmobranchs swallow infected molluscs or fish; pike and trout devour smaller fry; birds pick up sticklebacks, insects and worms which contain Cestode larvae; and man lays himself open to infection by eating the uncooked or partially prepared flesh of many animals.

Patrons can choose to dine outside on the back porch, order carry out or pick up a frozen meal to go from the freezer case.

He was getting paid a percentage just to pick up the artwork and deliver it to my broker.

He left us kids to fend for ourselves and now he thinks he can come back and pick up where he left off.

He can pick it up next weekend.

She retrieved the clothing, judging that Sofi had been the one to pick the original clothes out.

Late Friday evening she was returning from the barn when he drove into the yard in a white Dodge Ram Pick up.

Had he seen Josh pick her up?

Brady could've lost it in the river, but she should still pick up some electromagnetic fluctuation, if he was anywhere except the bottom of the river.

She reached the place where the food cubes had landed, bending to pick them up in case she needed them later.

Kris!  Form up with us.  Rhyn's slow on his left.  Pick up his slack.

The sun was beating down on me as I sat on the stoop waiting for Mrs. Armstrong to pick me up.

Pick up a copy of your schedule as you head out.

I'm still scared to death to pick up the phone," she said, and added, "Please, call me Cynthia," when he addressed her more formally.

Dean planned to send a patrol car by later to pick up some clothes but his trip home passed within a block of Parsons Street and on an impulse, he drove by the building.

Fred began to pick cat hairs from his blue suit.

Your buddy is being a little coy but he's hung around the wrong people long enough to pick up some information.

No one can follow the car and beat the pick up to the spot— it happens too quickly.

Dean was halfway out to 156 Maid Marian Lane before it dawned on him he'd neglected to pick up his just-in-case change of clothes.

I just came over to pick up a sweater for her.

I won't pick it up if I'm alone.

The ball game was a lapper and Dean began to pick over a stack of magazines in a rack by the sofa.

And don't bother asking how I'm going to pick out a guy I've never seen from 2,000 bicyclists.

Someone has to feed Mrs. Lincoln, pick up the paper and the mail...

Dean still managed to pick out eleven riders he considered could possibly be Jeffrey Byrne.

It seems he was in Europe someplace and didn't sign up for the tour in advance so he stopped by Cortez just to see if he could pick up a last minute cancellation.