Usually means: Select or choose from options.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pick: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pick: Merriam-Webster
  3. Pick, pick, pick: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pick, pick, pick: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pick: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pick: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pick, pick: Wordnik
  8. pick: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pick, pick: Wiktionary
  10. pick: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pick: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pick: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pick, pick: Dictionary.com
  14. pick (n.), pick (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pick: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pick (TV channel), Pick (film), Pick (hieroglyph), Pick, The Pick: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pick: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pick: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pick: Rhymezone
  20. pick: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. Pick: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. pick: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pick: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pick: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pick: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. pick: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pick: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pick (disambiguation), pick: Legal dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pick (disambiguation), pick: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pick: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Pick (disambiguation), pick: Medical dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PICK: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. pick: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the pick: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Pick: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  5. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
noun:  (nautical, slang) An anchor.
noun:  A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
noun:  A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
noun:  A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
noun:  (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
noun:  (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
noun:  A choice; ability to choose.
noun:  That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
noun:  (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
noun:  (basketball) A screen.
noun:  (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
noun:  (American football) An interception.
noun:  (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
noun:  (baseball) A pickoff.
noun:  (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
noun:  (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
noun:  (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
verb:  To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
verb:  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.
verb:  To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
verb:  To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
verb:  To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
verb:  To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
verb:  (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
verb:  (cricket) 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.
verb:  (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
verb:  To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
verb:  To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
verb:  To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
verb:  To steal; to pilfer.
verb:  (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
verb:  (dated, transitive) 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.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
verb:  (basketball) To screen.
verb:  (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
noun:  A surname.

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