Crossword clues for picking
picking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pick \Pick\ (p[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picked (p[i^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Picking.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., Pike, Pitch to throw.]
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To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]
As high as I could pick my lance.
--Shak. 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.
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
To open (a lock) as by a wire.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
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To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
Did you pick Master Slender's purse?
--Shak.He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.
--Cowper. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out. ``One man picked out of ten thousand.''
--Shak.To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
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To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. To pick a bone with. See under Bone. To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's Utopia). To pick off.
To pluck; to remove by picking.
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To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. To pick out.
To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
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To select from a number or quantity. To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentionally. To pick up.
To take up, as with the fingers.
To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there; as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.
Picking \Pick"ing\, n.
The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
pl. The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. [Eng.]
--Simmonds.(Mining) Rough sorting of ore.
Overburned bricks.
--Simmonds.
Picking \Pick"ing\, a.
Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
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Nice; careful. [Obs.]
was too warm on picking work to dwell.
--Dryden.Picking peg. (Weaving) See Picker, n.,
Wiktionary
n. 1 A gathering to pick fruit. 2 (context usually pluralized English) items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food. 3 (context usually pluralized English) income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner. vb. (present participle of pick English)
WordNet
n. the quantity of a crop that is harvested; "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years" [syn: pick]
the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
Wikipedia
Picking may refer to:
- Various styles of guitar playing (see also guitar picking):
- Fingerpicking
- Flatpicking
- Hybrid picking
- Pattern picking
- Alternate-picking
- Sweep-picking
- Tremolo picking
- A gathering to pick fruit or various products
- Continental knitting, a style of knitting also known as picking
- Lock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without the original key
- Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus and/or foreign bodies from the nose
- Skin picking, or Dermatillomania
- In computer graphics, the task of determining which screen-rendered object a user has clicked on
- In logistics, picking refers to the task of selecting an item for shipment
- Pickings, plunder
- Pickings (film), an upcoming film
Usage examples of "picking".
There was a sofa in the room, but it was horsehair, with high ends both alike, not comfortable, which were covered with curious complications called antimacassars, that slipped off directly they were touched, so that anybody who leaned upon them was engaged continually in warfare with them, picking them up from the floor or spreading them out again.
Vato and Blood were slouched in folding chairs when Takeshi and DL came in to open up shop, both humming back and forth in a strange free-form antiphony, sometimes falling silent, picking up the tune two and a half bars later exactly together, latently menacing, like a bee swarm.
It was pretty much what the microphone had been picking up from the start: the inconsequential prattle of a couple in the privacy of their own apartment, as apposed to intelligence secrets, which SNIPER collected at the university or his government offices.
The sun shone down into the great north ballium of the castle of Nimmr, glinting from the polished mail of noble knights and from pike and battle-axe of men-at-arms, picking out the gay colon of the robes of the women gathered in the grandstand below the inner wall.
The human village had provided easy pickings for the barghest whelps and might continue to do so for some time if Ulgulu and Kempfana were careful about their attacks.
She looked sleek and content, quite another animal from the poor bedraggled thing Christian had hauled into the cottage, and Eliza told her so, picking her up to cuddle her, while the kittens, their eyes open now, stared unblinkingly up at her.
Picking up the yarn bag, which now held a change of clothes, a few coins, and the letter to Belladonna, she held out her other hand.
Their bellies brush the ground, for the pickings are easy for them in this harsh land.
Their eyes now accustomed to the low light indoors, and with the car headlamps still providing limited illumination, they searched through the bloodied remains of the shop, picking through the wreckage as if they were high street window shoppers on a Saturday afternoon.
The lizard is speckled with orange-red and yellow blotches, so perfectly camouflaged it is like picking a face out in a picture puzzle to see him.
Beneath her she felt Bounder picking his way carefully across the plain.
The Scots, he had heard, had passed Macclesfield the night before, and all day the militia, horsed by the local squires, had been scouting the moors picking up breechless stragglers.
The hydrofoil raced away, picking up speed, lifting to the full extent of its skids.
But if young people, before picking out their life partners, are thoroughly imbued with the idea that such qualities as energy, longevity, a sound constitution, public and private worth, are primarily due to heredity, and if they are taught to realize the fact that one marries not an individual but a family, the eugenist believes that better matings will be made, sometimes realized, sometimes insensibly.
He paused behind a root tangle in thigh deep water and rotated his shields through infra, light gatherer, and magnifier, picking a course through the next section of swamp.