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(verb) remove in small bits: "pick meat from a bone" |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(noun) a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; "he was called for setting an illegal pick" |
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Related Words: basketball play |
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(verb) select carefully from a group: "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"; "We had to pick through a lot of data" |
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Related Words: choose, pick out, select, take |
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(verb) look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" |
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Synonyms: cull, pluck |
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Related Words: berry, collect, garner, gather, mushroom, pull together |
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(verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice" |
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Synonyms: break up |
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Related Words: pierce |
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(verb) provoke: "pick a fight or a quarrel" |
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Related Words: call forth, evoke, kick up, provoke |
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(verb) pilfer or rob: "pick pockets" |
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Related Words: rob |
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(noun) a heavy wooden-handled iron tool with a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks" |
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Synonyms: pickax, pickaxe |
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Related Words: edge tool, mattock |
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(noun) a thin sharp implement used for picking; "he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks" |
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Related Words: hand tool, ice pick, icepick, toothpick |
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(noun) a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument |
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Synonyms: plectron, plectrum |
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Related Words: device |
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(verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, as of chickens or fruit; "Clean the turkey" |
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Synonyms: clean |
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Related Words: remove, take, take away |
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(verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just picks at the food" |
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Synonyms: nibble, piece |
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Related Words: eat |
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(verb) hit lightly with a picking motion |
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Synonyms: beak, peck |
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Related Words: strike |
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(verb) pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high_interest mortgages" |
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Synonyms: foot |
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Related Words: pay |
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(noun) the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor" |
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Synonyms: choice, selection |
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Related Words: deciding, decision making, favorite, favourite, pleasure, way |
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(noun) the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War" |
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Synonyms: cream |
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Related Words: elite |
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(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" |
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Synonyms: picking |
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Related Words: indefinite quantity |
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(noun) the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" |
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Synonyms: choice, selection |
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Related Words: action, ballot, balloting, casting, conclusion, decision, determination, election, sampling, volition, vote, voting, willing |
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(verb) harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother" |
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Synonyms: blame, find fault |
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Related Words: criticise, criticize, pick apart |
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(verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion, as of guitar strings; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" |
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Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
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Related Words: draw, force, pull, twang |
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(noun) the thread woven across the warp yarn in weaving |
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Synonyms: filling, weft, woof |
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Related Words: thread, yarn |
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