to pick
- verb
- /pɪk/
- Broadbent crouches by the trail and picks up a hunk of pale gray lichen.
- pick fruit
- pick apples
- hand-picked
We need them to pick the crops down here.
- We need them to pick the crops down here.
- I think more plants that are that are picked freshly.
- You stand, you stand back up, pick your shit, reset, start again.
Examples
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We need them to pick the crops down here.
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You just wake up, pick your flowers, make bread.
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Things get worse, and eventually we find ourselves picking fruit before it is really edible.
Academic text (1990) -
Ahead of us, women in shawls and small children are picking up coal along the road.
Academic text (2011) -
A handful of blueberries he has picked from the shrubs that hug the forest floor.
Academic text (2008) -
Striding to the mantel, he picked up the matching vase and smashed it to the floor.
Academic text (2011) -
In autumn, we will pick apples from the orchard.
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The children love to pick wildflowers during our nature walks.
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Farmers must pick the ripe tomatoes before the frost arrives.
Synonyms
Collect food like fruits, nuts, or plants from the wild
To gather ripe crops from the fields
To pull something out quickly with the fingers
Pull things away one at a time
Choose the best items by hand one by one
Idioms
- Informal
To choose which problems to deal with instead of trying to solve every problem
- Informal
Challenge someone of similar size or strength instead of someone weaker
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Choose only data that supports an idea and ignore data that disagrees
To start an earlier activity or conversation again after an interruption
- Specialized
To copy one change from a code branch into another without copying other changes
Touching scabs again and again so they do not heal, sometimes meaning you reopen old hurts
- Informal
To ask someone for ideas or advice about something they know well
Compounds
- Specialized
A play where the pitcher or catcher throws quickly to tag a runner off base
- Specialized
A rare disease passed from parents that makes fat build up in the body's cells
- Specialized
A tool with a pointed end and a flat blade for digging and breaking hard soil or rock
- Specialized
A hand tool with a pointed end and a flat blade for digging and breaking hard rocky soil
How Much
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pick used for gathering fruit comes from the idea of plucking with a small point or a finger, so to pick apples is to pull them off the tree by hand.