Definitions for picks
picks
pick
Spelling: [pik]
IPA: /pɪk/
Picks is a 5 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 58 anagrams from letters in picks (cikps).
Definitions for picks
noun
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the act of choosing or selecting; choice; selection:
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a person or thing that is selected:
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the choicest or most desirable part, example, or examples:
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the right of selection:
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the quantity of a crop picked, as from trees, bushes, etc., at a particular time:
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Printing.
a speck of dirt, hardened ink, or extra metal on set type or a plate.
a small area removed from the surface of a coated paper by ink that adheres to the form.
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a stroke with something pointed:
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Basketball. an offensive maneuver in which a player moves into a position between a defender and a teammate with the ball so as to prevent the defender from interfering with the shot.
Compare pick-and-roll.
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a heavy tool consisting of an iron or steel head, usually curved, tapering to a point at one or both ends, mounted on a wooden handle, and used for loosening and breaking up soil, rock, etc.; pickax.
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a hammerlike tool for the rough dressing of stone, having two sharp, pyramidal faces.
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any pointed or other tool or instrument for picking (often used in combination):
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Music. plectrum.
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Slang. a large pocket comb having long, widely spaced teeth.
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(in a loom) one passage of the shuttle.
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filling (def 5).
Idioms
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pick and choose, to be very careful or particular in choosing:
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pick apart, to criticize severely or in great detail:
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pick it up, Informal. to move, work, etc., at a faster rate.
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pick one's way / steps, to walk with care and deliberation:
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pick someone's brains. brain (def 12).
Verb phrases
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pick at,
to find fault with unnecessarily or persistently; nag.
to eat sparingly or daintily:
to grasp at; touch; handle:
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pick off,
to remove by pulling or plucking off.
to single out and shoot:
Baseball. to put out (a base runner) in a pick-off play.
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pick on,
Informal. to criticize or blame; tease; harass.
to single out; choose:
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pick out,
to choose; designate:
to distinguish from that which surrounds or accompanies; recognize:
to discern (sense or meaning); discriminate.
to play (a melody) by ear; work out note by note.
to extract by picking.
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pick over, to examine (an assortment of items) in order to make a selection:
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pick up,
to lift or take up:
to collect, especially in an orderly manner:
to recover (one's courage, health, etc.); regain.
to gain by occasional opportunity; obtain casually:
to learn, as by experience:
to claim:
to take (a person or thing) into a car or ship, etc., or along with one.
to bring into range of reception, observation, etc.:
to accelerate; gain (speed).
to put in good order; tidy:
to make progress; improve:
to catch or contract, as a disease.
Informal. to become acquainted with informally or casually, often in hope of a sexual relationship:
to resume or continue after being left off:
Informal. to take into custody; arrest:
Informal. to obtain; find; purchase:
Slang. to steal:
to accept, as in order to pay:
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pick up on, Informal.
become aware or cognizant of; be perceptive about; notice:
to pay special attention to; keep an eye on:
verb (used with object)
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to choose or select from among a group:
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to seek and find occasion for; provoke:
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to attempt to find; seek out:
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to steal the contents of:
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to open (a lock) with a device other than the key, as a sharp instrument or wire, especially for the purpose of burglary.
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to pierce, indent, dig into, or break up (something) with a pointed instrument:
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to form (a hole) by such action:
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to use a pointed instrument, the fingers, the teeth, the beak, etc., on (a thing), in order to remove or loosen something, as a small part or adhering matter:
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to prepare for use by removing a covering piece by piece, as feathers, hulls, or other parts:
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to detach or remove piece by piece with the fingers:
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to pluck or gather one by one:
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(of birds or other animals) to take up (small bits of food) with the bill or teeth.
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to eat daintily or in small morsels.
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to separate, pull apart, or pull to pieces:
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Music.
to pluck (the strings of an instrument).
to play (a stringed instrument) by plucking with the fingers.
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to cast (a shuttle).
verb (used without object)
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to strike with or use a pick or other pointed instrument on something.
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(of birds or other animals) to take up small bits of food with the bill or teeth:
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to select carefully or fastidiously.
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to pilfer; steal.
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to pluck or gather fruit, flowers, etc.
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Basketball. to execute a pick.
Origin of picks
1250-1300; v. Middle English pyken, pikken, pekken, cognate with Dutch pikken, German picken, Old Norse pikka to pick; akin to peck2,
Examples for picks
Do you expect me to pick up everything you've thrown in the mud and feel grateful?
What image are you hoping people who pick up this book and read it, come away with?
If your ears are tired of slick auto-tuned vocals, pick up this disk for an aural detox.
If I am discharged I think I can manage to pick up a living somehow.
Every now and then she swerved aside to pick the red campion.
He said the brokers promise that the Italian navy will pick them up, which he says has actually driven the prices down.
She won't think much of a boy that has to pick berries for a living.
Wellington, New Zealand Our Oceania pick is the latest city to wholeheartedly embrace the global Brooklyn movement.
Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.
You pick one that's full-chested, that's got a fairish-sized nose, and that likes cats.