Found 4 items, similar to Picks.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: pick
memilih
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: pick
beliung, cecak, cuplik, gotes, memetik, memilih, memungut, mencomot, mencungkil, mengalap, menyomot, petik, terbaik
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: pick
pick
n 1: the person or thing chosen or selected;
“he was my pick for
mayor” [syn:
choice,
selection]
2: 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:
picking]
3: the best people or things in a group;
“the cream of
England's young men were killed in the Great War” [syn:
cream]
4: the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn:
woof,
weft,
filling]
5: a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to
pluck a stringed instrument [syn:
plectrum,
plectron]
6: a thin sharp implement used for picking;
“he used a pick to
clean dirt out of the cracks”
7: a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head
that is pointed on both ends;
“they used picks and sledges
to break the rocks” [syn:
pickax,
pickaxe]
8: a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's
body;
“he was called for setting an illegal pick”
9: the act of choosing or selecting;
“your choice of colors was
unfortunate”;
“you can take your pick” [syn:
choice,
selection,
option]
pick
v 1: select carefully from a group;
“She finally picked her
successor”;
“He picked his way carefully”
2: look for and gather;
“pick mushrooms”;
“pick flowers” [syn:
pluck,
cull]
3: harass with constant criticism;
“Don't always pick on your
little brother” [syn:
blame,
find fault]
4: provoke;
“pick a fight or a quarrel”
5: remove in small bits;
“pick meat from a bone”
6: remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits;
“Clean the turkey” [syn:
clean]
7: pilfer or rob;
“pick pockets”
8: pay for something;
“pick up the tab”;
“pick up the burden of
high-interest mortgages”;
“foot the bill” [syn:
foot]
9: pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;
“he plucked
the strings of his mandolin” [syn:
pluck,
plunk]
10: attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground,
for example;
“Pick open the ice” [syn:
break up]
11: hit lightly with a picking motion [syn:
peck,
beak]
12: eat intermittently; take small bites of;
“He pieced at the
sandwich all morning”;
“She never eats a full meal--she
just nibbles” [syn:
nibble,
piece]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Pick
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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Pick
\Pick\, v. i.
1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
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Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?
--Dryden.
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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 picking and
stealing.” --Book of Com. Prayer.
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To pick up, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in
health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]
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Pick
\Pick\, n. [F. pic a pickax, a pick. See
Pick, and cf.
Pike.]
1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in
composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
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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
pick on 't.” --Beau. & Fl.
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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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France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
--Ld. Lytton.
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5. Hence: That which would be picked or chosen first; the
best; as, the pick of the flock.
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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. --MacKellar.
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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; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a
weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
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Pick dressing (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a
pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or
depressions.
Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt,
used by miners.
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