All Definitions for Picks
Below are all the dictionary definitions of picks:
1A tool used for digging
2A pickaxe.
3An anchor.
4A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
5A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key
6A lock pick, picklock.
7A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
8A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar
9A plectrum.
10A choice
11Ability to choose.
12That which would be picked or chosen first
13The best.
14Pasture
15Feed, for animals.
16A screen.
17An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
18An interception.
19A good defensive play by an infielder.
20A pickoff.
21A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
22That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
23The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute)
24Hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
25To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
26To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached
27To harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
28To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers
29To pluck.
30To take up
31Especially, to gather from here and there
32To collect
33To bring together.
34To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
35To decide upon, from a set of options
36To select.
37To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
38To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
39To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
40To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
41To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels
42To nibble.
43To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things
44To select something with care.
45To steal
46To pilfer.
47To peck at, as a bird with its beak
48To strike at with anything pointed
49To act upon with a pointed instrument
50To pierce
51To prick, as with a pin.
52To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
53To screen.
54To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
55A pike or spike
56The sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
57To throw
58To pitch.
59A surname.
About synonyms for picks
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