pick

Etymology
From, , , from , (attested in ), and , , both from , from , from ,. .

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, (whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
 * 2)  An anchor.
 * 3) A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
 * 4) A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
 * 5) A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
 * 6)  A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
 * 7)  A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
 * 8) A choice; ability to choose.
 * 9) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
 * 10)  Pasture; feed, for animals.
 * 11)  A screen.
 * 12)  An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
 * 13)  An interception.
 * 14)  A good defensive play by an infielder.
 * 15)  A pickoff.
 * 16)  A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
 * 17)  That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
 * 18)  The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
 * 1)  A good defensive play by an infielder.
 * 2)  A pickoff.
 * 3)  A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
 * 4)  That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
 * 5)  The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
 * 1)  The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

Translations

 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: sapã
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎧᎾᏍᏕᏢᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: μάκελλα
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: piocóid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: копач, трнокоп
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: pika
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Zazaki:


 * Ottoman Turkish: آژینه
 * Turkish: ajine


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 万能钥匙
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: harva kampa
 * Italian:
 * Zazaki: dilgan


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:, prawo wyboru, możliwość wyboru,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ви́бір


 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1) To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
 * Don't pick at that scab.
 * He picked his nose.
 * 1)  To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
 * 2) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
 * 3) To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
 * 4) To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
 * 5) To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
 * 6)  To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
 * 7)  To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
 * 8)  To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
 * 9) To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
 * 10) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
 * 11) To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
 * I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
 * 1) To steal; to pilfer.
 * 2)  To throw; to pitch.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
 * 5)  To screen.
 * 6)  To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
 * 1)  To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
 * 2) To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
 * 3) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
 * 4) To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
 * I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
 * 1) To steal; to pilfer.
 * 2)  To throw; to pitch.
 * 3)  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.
 * 4)  To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
 * 5)  To screen.
 * 6)  To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
 * 3)  To screen.
 * 4)  To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
 * 1)  To screen.
 * 2)  To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
 * 1)  To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: plukke
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: pioc
 * Italian:
 * Latin: carpō
 * Nahuatl: pehpena
 * Norwegian: pilke
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:, , gmerać
 * Portuguese:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil:
 * Tày: boi


 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 摘
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: pluki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: reppiä, noppia, noblia
 * Irish: pioc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: carpō
 * Maori: tāhora, whakiwhaki, whawhaki
 * Norman: tchilyi
 * Norwegian:
 * Old Church Slavonic: чесати
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: p'itiy
 * Russian:, ; , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: manguha, kunin
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tày: bít
 * Welsh: ,
 * Zazaki: arêden


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐκλέγω
 * Irish: pioc
 * Italian:
 * Maori: whiri, whakatete, kōwhiri
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: вибира́ти


 * Finnish:


 * German:


 * Slovene:, ,
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  a dick (penis)

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) pike