Picking

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of one that picks.
  • n. Something or a group of things that are or may be picked.
  • n. Leftovers. Often used in the plural.
  • n. A share of spoils.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of pick.
  • n. A gathering to pick fruit.
  • n. Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
  • n. Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
  • n. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
  • n. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
  • n. Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
  • n. The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
  • n. Rough sorting of ore.
  • n. Overburned bricks.
  • adj. Done or made as with a pointed tool.
  • adj. Nice; careful.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of one who picks, in any sense.
  • n. In stone-working, same as dabbing, 1.
  • n. The final dressing or finishing of woven fabrics by going over the surface and removing burs and blemishes by hand, or retouching the color with dye by means of a camel's-hair pencil.
  • n. plural That which one can pick up or off; anything left to be picked or gleaned.
  • n. Pilfering; stealing; also, that which is obtained by petty pilfering; perquisites gotten by means not strictly honest.
  • n. Removing picks or defects in electrotype plates with the tools of an electrotype-finisher.
  • n. plural The pulverized shells of oysters, used in making walks.
  • n. A hard-burned brick.
  • n. A rough sorting or cleaning, as of coal, from impurities.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the quantity of a crop that is harvested
  • n. the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    yield    output    production    manual labor    manual labour   
    Cross Reference
    coarse picking    fine picking    plucking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pilfering    nice    careful    leftover   
    Verb Stem
    pick   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    clicking    flicking    kicking    licking    sticking    ticking    tricking   
     
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