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pick

pick

27 2.1
The amount of crop gathered at harvest
  • noun
  • /pɪk/
translation icon : recolección
  • After a long day of work, the crew celebrated their successful grape pick under the setting sun.

We here in Dallas, Dallas going to have a high pick this year.

Examples

  • The strawberry pick this season was unusually abundant, much to the joy of the local market.

  • Place was so ripe, I had my pick.

  • Okay, everyone, strawberries get first pick this time.

  • But the centre cut squash is my first pick for a crop I will always grow.

  • Some crop needed picking and the man was shorthanded.

  • We love berry picking.

  • While the men fished, women engaged in a number of activities, including seaweed and berry picking and fish processing.

    Academic text (2007)
  • During the autumn harvest, the farmers were busy with the apple pick from their orchards.

Synonyms

crop
vspick
460 1.1

Plants grown to be harvested for food or other use

refers specifically to the quantity gathered from those plants
harvest
vspick
166 1.0

The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields

focuses only on the amount gathered rather than the process
good harvest
vspick
2 1.6

A time when crops grow well and give a lot of food

names the plain amount gathered without judging its size
picking
vspick
2.5

The amount of fruit or crops taken in one harvest

is the same quantity idea but used as a short general label
pickings
vspick
6.2

Easy things to take, often small or worth little

means the crop quantity gathered during a harvest, not casual finds

Idioms

Choose any one you want from the options

5 3.7

The best or most wanted one in a group, like the strongest puppy

5 5.8

To choose which problems to deal with instead of trying to solve every problem

Challenge someone of similar size or strength instead of someone weaker

1 8.6

To accept a challenge and try to meet it

To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way

Leave a meeting or project because you are upset

To get better after a failure and start again

Compounds

26 4.2

A drink or small activity that makes you feel more energetic when tired

20 3.5

A metal tool with a sharp point that you use to break blocks of ice

pick-off
  • Specialized
5 7.5

A play where the pitcher or catcher throws quickly to tag a runner off base

4 2.9

A small flat piece for plucking or strumming guitar strings

A player chosen by a team's captain to play in a game

1 7.9

A small hooked tool to clean mud and stones from a horse's hoof

nose-pick
  • Offensive
1 8.6

Putting a finger inside your nose or a person who does this

Niemann-Pick disease
  • Specialized
9.8

A rare disease passed from parents that makes fat build up in the body's cells

pick mattock
  • Specialized
8.6

A tool with a pointed end and a flat blade for digging and breaking hard soil or rock

pick-mattock
  • Specialized
8.4

A hand tool with a pointed end and a flat blade for digging and breaking hard rocky soil

9.9

A girl who wants men's approval by putting herself or other women down

How Much

yield
257 4.1
pick
27 2.1
batch
197 3.2
basket
97 1.0
handful
81 1.0

Surface Forms

pick singular
picks plural

Etymology

Pick meaning the amount gathered in a harvest comes from that same action of taking crops by hand, so the season's pick is what people have picked.