Found 4 items, similar to Picking.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: pick
memilih
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: picking
pemetikan, pemungutan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: picking
picking
n 1: the quantity of a crop that is harvested;
“he sent the first
picking of berries to the market”;
“it was the biggest
peach pick in years” [syn:
pick]
2: the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Picking
Pick
\Pick\ (p[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Picked (p[i^]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n.
Picking.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck;
akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G.
picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf.
Peck, v.,
Pike,
Pitch
to throw.]
1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]
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As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak.
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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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Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak.
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He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems
With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper.
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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 out.
“One man picked out of ten thousand.”
--Shak.
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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 up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up
information.
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9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.
To pick a bone with. See under
Bone.
To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's
Utopia).
To pick off.
(a) To pluck; to remove by picking.
(b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters
pick off the enemy.
To pick out.
(a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark
stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
(b) To select from a number or quantity.
To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence
[Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.
To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel
intentionally.
To pick up.
(a) To take up, as with the fingers.
(b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;
as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.
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Picking
\Pick"ing\, n.
1. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
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2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
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3. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
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4. Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
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5. pl. The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
[Eng.] --Simmonds.
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6. (Mining) Rough sorting of ore.
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7. Overburned bricks. --Simmonds.
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Picking
\Pick"ing\, a.
1. Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
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2. Nice; careful. [Obs.]
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was too warm on picking work to dwell. --Dryden.
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Picking peg. (Weaving) See
Picker, n., 3.
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