handpicking - Glite Dictionary

Examples

So are you handpicking potential product placement?
The gardener's handpicking of pests helped improve the health of the plants.
She preferred handpicking each item for her collection rather than choosing them online.
Handpicking is essential for selecting the ripest fruits in the orchard.

Synonyms

choice

vshandpicking

∞ 1.0

One thing you pick or the act of picking from several things

focuses on careful personal choosing rather than on the decision result

pick

vshandpicking

283 1.0

A person or thing chosen from a group

is about careful, personal choosing rather than a simple one

selection

vshandpicking

155 1.8

The person or thing chosen for a specific purpose

is a careful, personal choosing rather than a general one

picking

vshandpicking

1 1.3

Gathering fruit or crops by hand

is careful personal choosing of people or things, not harvesting produce

preselection

vshandpicking

5.8

Choosing a smaller group of people or things before the final choice

is the careful personal choosing, usually at the final decision stage

Antonyms

random sampling

Specialized

1 4.0

Selecting people or items so each has an equal chance of being chosen

How Selective

curation

6 5.3

handpicking

3.9

selection

171 1.9

choice

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

handpicking singular

handpickings plural

Morphology

handpicking = handpick (transparent) = hand + pick + ing

The noun denotes the action formed by adding '-ing' to the verb 'handpick'; meaning is directly predictable from the verb.

Etymology

Handpicking comes from hand and pick, which mean to 'choose by hand' or with personal care. Think of handmade goods or picking fruit one by one: handpicking means choosing people or things very carefully and often personally, rather than by a machine or an open process.