pick

1. 1.

   the person or thing chosen or selected

   “he was my pick for mayor”

   Synonymschoiceselection

   Broaderdecision making

   Narrowerpleasurefavoriteway
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymspicking

   Broaderoutput
3. 3.

   the best people or things in a group

   “the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War”

   Synonymscream

   Broaderelite
4. 4.

   the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

   Synonymswoofweftfilling

   Broaderthread

   Part ofweave
5. 5.

   a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

   Synonymsplectrumplectron

   Broaderdevice

   Narrowerguitar pick
6. 6.

   a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material

   “he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks”

   Broaderhand tool

   Narrowericepicktoothpick
7. 7.

   a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

   “they used picks and sledges to break the rocks”

   Synonymspickaxpickaxe

   Broaderedge tool

   Narrowermattock
8. 8.

   a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body

   “he was called for setting an illegal pick”

   Broaderbasketball play
9. 9.

   the act of choosing or selecting

   “your choice of colors was unfortunate”

   “you can take your pick”

   Synonymschoiceselectionoption

   Broaderaction

   Narrowercastingcolorationsamplingdecisionvolition

Other forms of pick

plural

picks·

past tense

picked·

present participle

picking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pick

What does pick mean?

pick means "select carefully from a group". That is the primary sense; the word has 21 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pick?

pick has 1 syllable: pick. In IPA it is /ˈpɪk/.

What is another word for pick?

Close synonyms include pluck, cull, blame, find fault, clean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pick a common word?

pick is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pick?

2 words rhyme with pick. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.