English Dictionary

pick

/pɪk/

noun

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. / A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock. / A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

I need to find a pick for my gardening project.

意味（1）

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

意味（2）

A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

意味（3）

A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

意味（4）

A choice; ability to choose.

France and Russia have the pick of our stables.

意味（5）

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

意味（6）

(music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

意味（7）

(nautical, slang) An anchor.

It's better to amble around, drop the pick for a lunchtime swim or beachcomb, then find a nice anchorage for the night.

意味（8）

(basketball) A screen.

意味（9）

(lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

意味（10）

(American football) An interception.

意味（11）

(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.

意味（12）

(baseball) A pickoff.

意味（13）

A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

意味（14）

(obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.

意味（15）

(printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks

意味（16）

(art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

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(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

so many picks to an inch

意味（18）

(Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.

‘She's all African grass and Brahmans. There's not a blade of native pick left, except on the ridges.’