choice selection option pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
pick | a basketball maneuver, obstructing an opponent with one's body, he was called for setting an illegal pick |
pick-off | a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out |
bracer pick-me-up | a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) |
guitar pick | a plectrum used to pluck a guitar |
icepick ice pick | pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point, used for breaking up blocks of ice |
pick pickax pickaxe | 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 |
pick | a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material, he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks |
pick plectrum plectron | a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument |
pickup pick-me-up | anything with restorative powers, she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her |
woof weft filling pick | the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving |
choice pick selection | the person or thing chosen or selected, he was my pick for mayor |
cream pick | the best people or things in a group, the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War |
picking pick | 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 |
Niemann-Pick disease | a disorder of lipid metabolism that is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait |
Pick's disease | a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia |
perk up perk percolate pick up gain vigor | gain or regain energy, I picked up after a nap |
clean pick | remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, Clean the turkey |
pick | remove in small bits, pick meat from a bone |
turn around pick up | improve significantly, go from bad to good, Her performance in school picked up |
pick up | lift out or reflect from a background, The scarf picks up the color of the skirt, His eyes picked up his smile |
learn hear get word get wind pick up find out get a line discover see | get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally, I learned that she has two grown-up children, I see that you have been promoted |
choose take select pick out | pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives, Take any one of these cards, Choose a good husband for your daughter, She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her |
pick | select carefully from a group, She finally picked her successor, He picked his way carefully |
hand-pick | pick personally and very carefully, the director hand-picked his new team |
sieve out pick over | separate or remove, The customer picked over the selection |
knock criticize criticise pick apart | find fault with, express criticism of, point out real or perceived flaws, The paper criticized the new movie, Don't knock the food--it's free |
blame find fault a pick | harass with constant criticism, Don't always pick on your little brother |
disparage belittle pick at | express a negative opinion of, She disparaged her student's efforts |
take a dare pick up the gauntlet | be dared to do something and attempt it |
pick at peck at peck | eat like a bird, The anorexic girl just picks at her food |
peck pick up | eat by pecking at, like a bird |
nibble pick piece | eat intermittently, take small bites of, He pieced at the sandwich all morning, She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles |
pick up | take up by hand, He picked up the book and started to read |
collar nail apprehend arrest pick up nab cop | take into custody, the police nabbed the suspected criminals |
peck pick beak | hit lightly with a picking motion |
pick pluck cull | look for and gather, pick mushrooms, pick flowers |
pick break up | attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example, Pick open the ice |
pluck plunk pick | pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, he plucked the strings of his mandolin |
pluck tweak pull off pick off | pull or pull out sharply, pluck the flowers off the bush |
pick at pluck at pull at | pluck or pull at with the fingers, She picked nervously at the buttons of her blouse |
pick | provoke, pick a fight or a quarrel |
elate lift up uplift pick up intoxicate | fill with high spirits, fill with optimism, Music can uplift your spirits |
pick up | give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift, We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway |
pick up lift up gather up | take and lift upward |
pick up receive | register (perceptual input), pick up a signal |
catch pick up | perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily, I caught the aroma of coffee, He caught the allusion in her glance, ears open to catch every sound, The dog picked up the scent, Catch a glimpse |
spot recognize recognise distinguish discern pick out make out tell apart | detect with the senses, The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards, I can't make out the faces in this photograph |
pick up | buy casually or spontaneously, I picked up some food for a snack |
foot pick | pay for something, pick up the tab, pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages, foot the bill |