Sanakirja.org

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
2. (nautical, slang) An anchor.
3. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
4. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
5. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
6. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
7. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
8. A choice; ability to choose.
9. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
10. (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
11. (basketball) A screen.
12. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
13. (American football) An interception.
14. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
15. (baseball) A pickoff.
16. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
17. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
18. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

Verbi

1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
2. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
7. (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
9. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
10. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
13. To steal; to pilfer.
14. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
15. (dated, transitive) 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.
16. (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
17. (basketball) To screen.
18. (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.