amerikai:
brit:
1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
Don't pick at that scab.
2. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
It's time to pick the tomatoes.
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
She picked flowers in the meadow.
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
to pick rags
5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket
6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
7. To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.
9. To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
He picked a tune on his banjo.
10. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.
13. To steal; to pilfer.
14. To throw; to pitch.
15. 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.
16. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
17. To screen.
1. Chosen; selected.
2. (of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
the picked dogfish
3. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
4. Pointed; sharp