pick (original) (raw)

pick verb (PLAY INSTRUMENT)

Grammar

Idioms

Phrasal verbs

pick noun (CHOICE)

You can have first pick of the desserts.

pick noun (TOOL)

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pick noun (IN MUSIC)

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pick noun (SPORT)

You've got to be moving without the ball, making back cuts, and setting picks.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Idiom

(Definition of pick from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

pick | American Dictionary

pick verb [T] (CHOOSE)

pick verb [T] (REMOVE)

Idioms

Phrasal verbs

pick noun (MUSIC TOOL)

pick noun (DIGGING TOOL)

pick noun (THING TO CHOOSE)

(Definition of pick from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of pick

pick

Barely able to talk, she phones the preschool to tell them she will soon pick up her child.

For instance, how could she possibly decide which of two visual objects to pick up when she cannot identify the objects?

The target is picked up by the mechanical micromanipulator with the pipette quite easily.

That swarms of mosquitos (like other insects) are thus picked up, presumably by ascending air-currents, and deposited a long way off is extremely probable.

More recent incongruity theorists have begun to pick up on the sociological importance of this kind of deviation from expectation.

If a solution exists it can be found immediately by picking the ' 'right' ' assignment at each stage.

The mistaken assumption was that the concepts of religion and politics can only be intelligible if they pick out some real essence.

We have extended this heuristic so that the nodes that are already without a route are picked first (when they exist).

In reality, they might of course also pick up cues from opinion leaders or the media in order to form their regime preference.

It is harder to pick out experts in moral and political matters than it is in medical or musical matters.

Consider, for example, the fact that we are all obliged to refrain from picking our respective noses in public places.

Morality picks up what the epistemology leaves off.

We wanted the microphone to pick up the parent's speech but not to pick up much of the background noise.

This cycle is repeated until the user picks a satisfactory color scheme; the size of the random vectors decreases at each stage.

One can pick it up and start reading at virtually any point and find a wealth of information.

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