"pick" meaning in All languages combined

See pick on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /pɪk/ [US] Audio: en-us-pick.ogg [US], en-au-pick.ogg [Australia], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-pick.wav Forms: pick [singular], picks [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. A pick is a choice.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-noun-VwlWeG1B
  2. A pick is a tool used to dig.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-noun-Zu4fHsVi
  3. A pick is something used to play a guitar with.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-noun-CH~a841V

Verb [English]

IPA: /pɪk/ [US] Audio: en-us-pick.ogg [US], en-au-pick.ogg [Australia], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Nattes à chat-pick.wav Forms: pick [canonical], picks [third-person, singular], picked [past], picked [past, participle], picking [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb}} [POS TABLE]
  1. When you pick something, you choose it.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-bd4rlTED
  2. If you pick up something, you lift it.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-eHEMhxI2
  3. If you pick up the phone, you answer it.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-S9-NGRv8
  4. If you pick something up from somewhere, you go and get it.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-gLuPQS5Y
  5. If you try to pick up someone you have just met, you talk to them because you want to have sex with them.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-ZrvtnUbi
  6. If you pick fruit, flowers, etc., you take them off the plant.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-akXzSsDD
  7. If you pick something from somewhere, you take it out of or away from that place.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-6X2~dbRj
  8. If you pick a musical instrument such as a guitar, you play it by pulling its strings and letting them go.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-7LTiqmFq
  9. If you pick at something, you touch it many times without doing anything.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-C0PO2g97 Categories (other): Verbs
  10. If you pick on someone, you are not nice to them in particular.
    Sense id: simple-pick-en-verb-L3ng9WqO Categories (other): Verbs
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        {
          "text": "I have picked the best people to work on this job."
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          "text": "This was picked as the best new toy of the year."
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        {
          "text": "She picked up the glass and put it down again."
        },
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          "text": "Pick your clothes up off the floor!"
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          "text": "The baby's crying. Can you pick him up?"
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          "text": "Mom, can you pick me up from Austin's at 8:00?"
        },
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          "text": "I'll go an pick up a pizza."
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        {
          "text": "We spent the morning picking apples in the forest."
        },
        {
          "text": "Please help me pick up the books that I've dropped."
        }
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          "text": "After dinner he picked the rice out of the children's hair."
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        "If you pick a musical instrument such as a guitar, you play it by pulling its strings and letting them go."
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        {
          "text": "He was too sick to eat and just picked at his food."
        },
        {
          "text": "She picked nervously at her dress."
        }
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          "text": "He was picked on by his brothers for his small size."
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          "text": "He forgot his guitar pick."
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          "text": "She picked up the glass and put it down again."
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