| inglese > italiano | |
| pick | |
| 1. sost. scelta | |
| 2. sost. piccone | |
| 3. sost. (musica) plettro | |
| 4. verb. scegliere, selezionare | |
| 5. verb. cogliere un fiore, della frutta | |
| inglese > inglese | |
| pick | |
| 1. subst. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. |  |
| 2. subst. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock. |  |
| 3. subst. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair. |  |
| 4. subst. A choice; ability to choose. |  |
| 5. subst. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best. |  |
| 6. subst. (basketball) A screen. |  |
| 7. subst. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate. |  |
| 8. subst. (American football) An interception. |  |
| 9. subst. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder. |  |
| 10. subst. (baseball) A pickoff. |  |
| 11. subst. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum. |  |
| 12. subst. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. |  |
| 13. subst. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler. |  |
| 14. subst. (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. |  |
| 15. subst. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. |  |
| 16. subst. (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. |  |
| so many picks to an inch |  |
| 17. v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. |  |
| Don't pick at that scab. |  |
| He picked his nose. |  |
| 18. v. 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. |  |
| It's time to pick the tomatoes. |  |
| 19. v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. |  |
| She picked flowers in the meadow. |  |
| to pick feathers from a fowl |  |
| 20. v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together. |  |
| to pick rags |  |
| 21. v. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth. |  |
| to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket |  |
| 22. v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select. |  |
| I'll pick the one with the nicest name. |  |
| Seek an opportunity to quarrel or argue with someone. |  |
| 23. v. (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. |  |
| He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled. |  |
| 24. v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument. |  |
| He picked a tune on his banjo. |  |
| 25. v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc. |  |
| 26. v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble. |  |
| 27. v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care. |  |
| 28. v. To steal; to pilfer. |  |
| 29. v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch. |  |
| 30. v. (dated) 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. |  |
| 31. v. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points. |  |
| to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc. |  |
| italiano > inglese | |
| cogliere | |
| 1. v. to pick, gather |  |
| 2. v. to grasp, seize, take |  |