What's the difference between leftover and picking?

Leftover


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But this is how we live even before we are forced, through penury to claim: fine dining on stewed leftovers, nursing our one drink on those rare social events, cutting our own hair, patchwork-darned clothes and leaky shoes.
  • (2) If using old leftovers feels a little wartime in its frugality: even better.
  • (3) Photograph: Jonathan Lovekin for the Observer Nigel Slater's cold noodle and tomato salad makes a nice grownup supper with leftovers for the packed lunch.
  • (4) Verdict: Funded by leftovers from the 2010 funding deal, it means no top-slicing from the new licence fee agreement.
  • (5) Those that do exist bear Saudi Arabia's logo, but they are torn and thin – leftovers from a huge aid donation during cyclone Nargis.
  • (6) They weren't aware that MSG was what they'd liked in Japan - but the US Army catering staff noticed that their men enjoyed the leftover ration packs of the demobilised Japanese Army much more than they did their own, and began to ask why.
  • (7) We eat twice a day and snack at tea time, with leftovers and teas always available.
  • (8) Transport of leftover feed from infectious disease (IBD) farms to susceptible flocks on clean premises is believed to have played an important role in the transmission of this disease to new farms and to new areas.
  • (9) Hand washing with soap before meals by all family members protected against cholera (OR = 0.2, 95 percent CI 0.02-0.96), suggesting that persons asymptomatically infected with Vibrio cholerae 01 may have been the initial source for contamination of the leftover foods.
  • (10) Leftover food from the café is given to the “Tumbleweeds”, the bookshop’s resident writers.
  • (11) Consistent with this, was the fact that 37% were unaware of safe methods of disposal of leftover medicines.
  • (12) Then there are the "ethylene absorbing" discs you can place in a bowl to keep your fruit fresh for longer; the polyurethane foam cushions designed to prevent fruit and veg from becoming bruised; and the silicone "food huggers" into which you pop your leftover half a lemon or tomato.
  • (13) If this show wasn’t called Looking, it should have been called Heart to Hearts over Chinese Takeout Leftovers.
  • (14) 8.13pm BST Mary is being extremely naught in stealing Frances' leftovers.
  • (15) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
  • (16) Salmonella infantis and enterotoxin-producing Staphylococcus aureus were both isolated from samples of leftover turkey, and S. infantis was isolated from 18 of 20 stool specimens.
  • (17) The shoot is catered, and afterwards Mom takes the leftovers and passes out the Brie and watercress sandwiches to her friends, shouting, 'Free yuppie food!'
  • (18) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
  • (19) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
  • (20) Photograph: Kareem Shaheen for the Guardian The Guardian, the first western media organisation to visit the site of the attack, examined a warehouse and silos directly next to where the missile had landed, and found nothing but an abandoned space covered in dust and half-destroyed silos reeking of leftover grain and animal manure.

Picking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pick
  • (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
  • (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
  • (n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
  • (n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
  • (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
  • (n.) Rough sorting of ore.
  • (n.) Overburned bricks.
  • (a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
  • (a.) Nice; careful.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
  • (2) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
  • (3) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
  • (4) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
  • (5) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
  • (6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (7) Joe Gregory, parked outside the arena while waiting to pick up his girlfriend and her sister from the concert, captured its impact on his car’s dashcam.
  • (8) Everyone worked hard, but it is fair to pick out Willian because of his work-rate, quality on the ball, participation in the first goal and quality of the second.” It had been Willian’s fizzed cross, 11 minutes before the break, which Dragovic had nodded inadvertently inside Shovkovskiy’s near post to earn the hosts their initial lead.
  • (9) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
  • (10) "While it seems possible that more will join the two MPC dissenters in coming months if wage growth picks up, it looks a long way to go before a majority on the MPC vote to raise interest rates," he said.
  • (11) Those are our picks, but what have you been enjoying on Android this week?
  • (12) Phil Barlow Nottingham • Reading about the problems caused by a lack of toilets reminded me of the harvest camps my father’s Birmingham school organised in the Vale of Evesham during the war, where the sixth-formers spent weeks picking fruit and vegetables on farms.
  • (13) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
  • (14) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
  • (15) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
  • (16) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (17) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
  • (18) We propose that MS at the age of 1 year 6 months would be more effective to pick up these cases, because treatment strategies depend on the different biological characteristics of tumor cells.
  • (19) Business picked up in the fourth quarter of 2013 but the consumer goods giant said those markets had continued to slow and it expected "ongoing volatility in the external environment".
  • (20) But I'm starting with the job that I can do something about right now – scrabbling around on the floor, picking up three-inch nails and cigarette butts so that the new four-year-olds will have somewhere safe to play at break.

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