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Noun picking has 2 senses
- picking, pick - 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"
--1 is a kind of output, yield, production
- picking - the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
--2 is a kind of manual labor, manual labour
Verb pick has 12 senses
- pick - select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"
--1 is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
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Somebody ----s somebody
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- pick, pluck, cull - look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
--2 is one way to gather, garner, collect, pull together
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- blame, find fault, pick - harass with constant criticism; "Don't always pick on your little brother"
--3 is one way to knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart
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=> Somebody ----s PP
- pick - provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel"
--4 is one way to provoke, evoke, call forth, kick up
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- pick - remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"
--5 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
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- clean, pick - remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"
--6 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
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- pick - pilfer or rob; "pick pockets"
--7 is one way to rob
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- foot, pick - pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"
--8 is one way to pay
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- pluck, plunk, pick - pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
--9 is one way to pull, draw, force
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Something ----s somebody
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- pick, break up - attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"
--10 is one way to pierce
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- peck, pick, beak - hit lightly with a picking motion
--11 is one way to strike
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- nibble, pick, piece - eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"
--12 is one way to eat
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