- picking, pick - 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"
--1 is a kind of output, yield, production
- picking - the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
--2 is a kind of manual labor, manual labour
Derived form: verb pick2
- pick - select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"
--1 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun pick9, noun pick3, noun pick1, noun picker1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
- pick, pluck, cull - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
--2 is one way to gather, garner, collect, pull together
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun pick2, noun picker2, noun picking2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- blame, find fault, pick - harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother"
--3 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s PP
- pick - provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel"
--4 is one way to provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pick - remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"
--5 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun pick6
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- clean, pick - remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"
--6 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
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Somebody ----s something
- pick - pilfer or rob; "pick pockets"
--7 is one way to rob
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun pickings1
Somebody ----s something
- foot, pick - pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
--8 is one way to pay
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- pluck, plunk, pick - pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
--9 is one way to pull, draw, force
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun pick5
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
- pick, break up - attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
--10 is one way to pierce
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun pick7
Somebody ----s something
- peck, pick, beak - hit lightly with a picking motion
--11 is one way to strike
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- nibble, pick, piece - eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
--12 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- pick - remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"