pick

CEFRA1

/pɪk/

verb · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To choose someone or something from a group.

  2. 02

    verb

    To remove or collect something, often with the fingers.

Examples

  • I have a bone to pick with you.

  • Pick a number from one to twenty.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

  2. An anchor.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A tool with a pointed end for breaking hard ground or rock.

More examples

In context

  • Pick up your things and go away.

  • Don't pick at that scab.

  • so many picks to an inch

Synonyms

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Origin

verb

From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck. Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)). Compare also German Low German puken (“to pick out, rip out, pull away, extract”).