Concept cluster: Music > Selecting or removing
v
To point out as with the finger.
n
(video games, Internet slang) A win.
v
To move the index finger horizontally back and forth, as to say no or reject something.
v
(intransitive) To make any sort of gesture extending one of the fingers above the others.
adj
Alternative form of handpicked [Picked by hand rather than by machinery.]
v
Alternative form of handpick [To pick or harvest by hand.]
v
To pick or harvest by hand.
n
The distance between the outstretched tips of the little finger and thumb when used as a unit of measurement
v
(colloquial) you have chosen the wrong person
n
(informal, especially in the plural) A hand.
v
(archaic, literally) To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.
v
(Internet) To cherry-pick poor representatives of a viewpoint (i.e., from Internet postings) in order to disparage it.
v
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
v
(intransitive) To choose selectively or fastidiously.
n
Alternative form of pick 'n' mix [A selection of different articles (such as sweets arranged in trays) that can be chosen in any combination and paid for by weight or number.]
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To pick on or repeatedly criticize (someone).
v
(idiomatic, intransitive) To find weaknesses, errors or imperfections (in).
v
(literally) To remove by picking.
v
(transitive) To select (a person) for a task, etc.
v
to remove by picking
v
(transitive) To choose all of the desirable items from (an array of options); to look for the most desirable items among.
n
(slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
n
(colloquial) A tool used to pick things up.
n
A period of intense or frequent picking (in various senses)
adj
Of or relating to pickthanks.
n
(usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To get to the heart or crux of (a matter).
v
(transitive, intransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).
v
(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
v
(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
n
One who is plucked, or from whom something is plucked.
v
Obsolete form of point. [(intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.]
v
(now chiefly Scotland, England and US regional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
v
Obsolete form of pick. [To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.]
n
A gesture of assurance given as encouragement; specifically (psychoanalysis) in transactional analysis: a (generally positive) reaction expressed to a person which fulfils their desires or needs.
v
(transitive) To deflect with one′s fingers, especially one′s fingertips.
v
(transitive) To pluck or grasp using tweezers.

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