(v.) 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.
(v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
(v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) 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.
(v.) To trim.
(v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
(v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
(v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.
(n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
(n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
(n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
(n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
(n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
(n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
(n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
(n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
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.
Plectrum
Definition:
(n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) And ostentatious gestures and lavish presentation, rather than the quality of his new records, are the means by which he has kept public interest bubbling in recent years: not a UK tour, but 21 nights at the O2 Arena, complete with after-hours shows at the IndigO2 nightclub; giving away his new albums free with newspapers; inviting journalists and fans to his Los Angeles home or to the Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis for parties to launch albums instead of submitting to the usual round of encounters with the press; launching his own nightclub in Las Vegas where he played twice weekly for six months; turning up in Lianne La Havas's front room to premiere Plectrum Electrum.
(2) Both Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum are due to arrive on 29 September, and are available to order now Tracklist for Art Official Age: 1.
(3) Further re-releases are expected to follow, as well as a new studio album with Prince’s current band 3RDEYEGIRL, reportedly entitled Plectrum Electrum.
(4) The musician has been teasing us with details of his forthcoming Plectrum Electrum album with the band 3rd Eye Girl since January this year, when he hosted a press conference at nu-soul singer Lianne La Havas’ house .
(5) In person, the matt black Keith Richards barnet and glittery nail varnish on his plectrum-holding right hand suggest a man who has spent his entire adult life as a national institution.
(6) "Wilko signed it and gave me a couple of lessons, told me never to use a plectrum and just bash it till my fingers bled.
(7) Nevertheless, there's still no sign of the new album, Plectrum Electrum, recorded with his current band, 3rdEyeGirl.
(8) The track is taken from his forthcoming album, Plectrum Electrum, which is set for a spring release.
(9) After Sunday night’s VMAs, the artist revealed that Plectrum Electrum will arrive in September alongside an entirely separate LP, Art Official Age.
(10) Here, Prince and his band played new songs from Plectrum Electrum, including the new single PretzelBodyLogic.
(11) Certainly not Madonna, Paglia's long-term crush, who has been playing the guitar onstage for the past 10 years but still looks cross-eyed with concentration every time she picks up a plectrum.
(12) Prince and backing band 3RDEYEGIRL had flown into London in the early hours of Tuesday at the start of a still-evolving string of dates in support of his upcoming album, Plectrum Electrum, which they had played to a small nightclub audience in New York on Sunday night.
(13) He's also been working with Rita Ora, and last year announced an album with his new all-female band 3rdEyeGirl called Plectrum Electrum, which is yet to get a release date – though he posted a new track, Da Bourgeoisie, in November.
(14) The Sailor's Hornpipe interpolation Dreamer More Than This (instrumental) Colonized Mind Guitar Plectrum Electrum Chaos And Disorder Full setlist, show 2 Raspberry Beret (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Funknroll (acoustic) Pretzelbodylogic (acoustic) Play That Funky Music .
(15) The shows in February – accompanied by an extensive interview in Mojo magazine – were expected to be promotion for the release of Prince's new album, Plectrum Electrum.