Word Meanings - PICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;

Additional info about word: PICK

Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 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. 3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. 4. To open as by a wire. 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. 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. Did you pick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper. 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. 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. 9. To trim. Chaucer. 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. Robynson . -- To pick off. To pluck; to remove by picking. To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. -- To pick out. To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence , to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. -- To pick up. To take up, as with the fingers. To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news. to acquire ; as, to pick up a cold on the airplane. To meet and

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PICK)

• Cull
• Bunch
• gather
• pick
• collect

Related words: (words related to PICK)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• BUNCHY
  Yielding irregularly; sometimes rich, sometimes poor; as, a bunchy mine. Page. (more info) 1. Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer. 2. Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• BUNCHBERRY
  The dwarf cornel , which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
• BUNCH
  A small isolated mass of ore, as distinguished from a continuous vein. Page. (more info) 1. A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump. They will carry . . . their treasures upon the bunches of camels. Isa. xxx. 6. 2. A collection, cluster,
• COLLECTORATE
  The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship.
• COLLECTEDNESS
  A collected state of the mind; self-possession.
• GATHER
  To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like. (more info) together, fr. gæd fellowship; akin to E. good, D. gaderen to collect, G. gatte husband,
• COLLECTANEA
  Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
• BUNCH-BACKED
  Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.
• BUNCHINESS
  The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.
• COLLECTIVE
  Expressing a collection or aggregate of individuals, by a singular form; as, a collective name or noun, like assembly, army, juri, etc. 4. Tending to collect; forming a collection. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point,
• COLLECTOR
  An officer appointed and commissioned to collect and receive customs, duties, taxes, or toll. A great part of this is now embezzled . . . by collectors, and other officers. Sir W. Temple. 4. One authorized to collect debts. 5. A bachelor of arts
• COLLECT
  together; col- + legere to gather: cf. OF. collecter. See Legend, and 1. To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering. A band of men Collected choicely from each country. Shak. 'Tis memory alone
• BUNCH GRASS
  A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.
• MISRECOLLECTION
  Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
• MEGATHERE; MEGATHERIUM
  An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
• RE-COLLECT
  To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re- collect routed troops. God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust. Barrow.
• RECOLLECTION
  1. The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance. 2. The power of recalling ideas to the mind, or the period within which