pick: signification et définitions

To select from a group: The best swimmer was picked.

To select or cull.

To gather in; harvest: They were picking cotton.

To gather the harvest from: picked the field in one day.

To remove the outer covering of; pluck: pick a chicken clean of feathers.

To tear off bit by bit: pick meat from the bones.

To remove extraneous matter from (the teeth).

To poke and pull at (something) with the fingers.

To break up, separate, or detach by means of a sharp pointed instrument.

To pierce or make (a hole) with a sharp pointed instrument.

To take up (food) with the beak; peck: The parrot picked its seed.

To steal the contents of: My pocket was picked.

To open (a lock) without the use of a key.

To provoke: pick a fight.

Music To pluck (an instrument's strings).

Music To play (an instrument) by plucking its strings.

Music To play (a tune) in this manner: picked a melody out on the guitar.

To decide with care or forethought.

To work with a pick.

To find fault or make petty criticisms; carp: He's always picking about something.

To be harvested or gathered: The ripe apples picked easily.

The act of picking, especially with a sharp pointed instrument.

The act of selecting or choosing; choice: got first pick of the desserts.

Something selected as the most desirable; the best or choicest part: the pick of the crop.

The amount or quantity of a crop that is picked by hand.