Pick

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
2. isim 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.”

3. isim A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
4. isim A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
5. isim A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
6. isim A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
7. isim A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

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

8. isim A choice; ability to choose.

   “France and Russia have the pick of our stables.”

9. isim That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
10. isim Pasture; feed, for animals.

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

11. isim A screen.
12. isim An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
13. isim An interception.
14. isim A good defensive play by an infielder.
15. isim A pickoff.
16. isim 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”

17. isim That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
18. isim 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”

19. fiil To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

    “Don't pick at that scab.”

20. fiil To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.

    “It's time to pick the tomatoes.”

21. fiil To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

    “She picked flowers in the meadow.”

22. fiil To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

    “to pick rags”

23. fiil To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

    “to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket”

24. fiil To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

    “I'll pick the one with the nicest name.”

25. fiil To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
26. fiil To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.

    “He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.”

27. fiil To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

    “He picked a tune on his banjo.”

28. fiil To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

    “The lock was of a kind that Watt could not pick. Watt could pick simple locks, but he could not pick obscure locks.”

29. fiil To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

    “Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?”

30. fiil To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

    “I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.”