pick
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2.1
- noun
- /pɪk/
- After a long day of work, the crew celebrated their successful grape pick under the setting sun.
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Examples
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The strawberry pick this season was unusually abundant, much to the joy of the local market.
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Place was so ripe, I had my pick.
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Okay, everyone, strawberries get first pick this time.
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But the centre cut squash is my first pick for a crop I will always grow.
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Some crop needed picking and the man was shorthanded.
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We love berry picking.
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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
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1.1
Plants grown to be harvested for food or other use
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1.0
The time when farmers gather ripe crops from the fields
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6.2
Easy things to take, often small or worth little
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1.6
A time when crops grow well and give a lot of food
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2.5
The amount of fruit or crops taken in one harvest
Idioms
- Informal
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6.1
Challenge someone of similar size or strength instead of someone weaker
- Informal
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5.8
To choose which problems to deal with instead of trying to solve every problem
- Informal
To leave a group or activity because you do not get your way
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.5
A play where the pitcher or catcher throws quickly to tag a runner off base
- Specialized
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9.8
A rare disease passed from parents that makes fat build up in the body's cells
- Specialized
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8.6
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 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.