PICK - Definiția din dicționar
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Pick (pĭk), v. t.
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2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
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3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.
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5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
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6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
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7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with
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8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with
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9. To trim. [Obs.]
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Pick (?), v. i. 1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
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2. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
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3. To steal; to pilfer. “To keep my hands from
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Pick, n. [F.
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2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used for digging ino the ground by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
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3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. [Obs.] “Take down my buckler . . . and grind the
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4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick; in cat breeding, the owner of a stud gets the pick of the litter.
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6. (Print.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
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7. (Painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
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8. (Weaving) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute;
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