pick
挑选,选择,采摘,挑
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Definitions
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- : to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
- : to seek and find occasion for; provoke: to pick a fight.
- : to attempt to find; seek out: to pick flaws in an argument.
- : to steal the contents of: Her pocket was picked yesterday.
- : to open with a device other than the key, as a sharp instrument or wire, especially for the purpose of burglary.
- : to pierce, indent, dig into, or break up with a pointed instrument: to pick rock; to pick ore.
- : to form by such action: to pick a hole in asphalt.
- : to use a pointed instrument, the fingers, the teeth, the beak, etc., on, in order to remove or loosen something, as a small part or adhering matter: to pick one's teeth.
- : to prepare for use by removing a covering piece by piece, as feathers, hulls, or other parts: to pick a fowl.
- : to detach or remove piece by piece with the fingers: She picked the meat from the bones.
- : to pluck or gather one by one: to pick flowers.
- : to take up with the bill or teeth.
Phrases
- pick a bone with
- pick and choose
- pick apart
- pick a quarrel
- pick at
- picked over
- pick holes in
- pick off
- pick of the litter
- pick on
- pick one's way
- pick out
- pick over
- pick someone's brain
- pick to pieces
- pick up
- pick up on
- pick up the pieces
- bone to pick
- slim pickings
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
We’ll dive deeper into disposable hand warmers when we talk about our favorite budget pick, but these are a good option to keep in the back of your brain when thinking about ski-appropriate heating options.
The Detroit Lions already have agreed to trade Matthew Stafford to the Los Angeles Rams for a king’s ransom of draft picks and fellow quarterback Jared Goff.
Check out the outfitters in the surrounding communities, and have your pick of anything from classic sloops to lobster boats.
Here’s a list of picks from the people who are paid to pay attention to the game, along with a few others from our animal friends.
The team had been linked to Matthew Stafford, but the Detroit Lions agreed last week to trade him to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for Jared Goff and a bounty of draft picks.
In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
What image are you hoping people who pick up this book and read it, come away with?
Couple guided Stella as she crawled and dipped her chest to pick up each magnet.
Wellington, New Zealand Our Oceania pick is the latest city to wholeheartedly embrace the global Brooklyn movement.
He said the brokers promise that the Italian navy will pick them up, which he says has actually driven the prices down.
We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.