Palabra Inglés del Día

Definiciones

inglés > español
pick
1. Elegir, seleccionar, escoger.
2. Provocar, ocasionar.
3. Robar el contenido de.
4. Abrir un cerrojo o similar sin la llave, en especial si se hace para robar.
5. Picar.
6. Hacer un hoyo picando.
7. Recoger o remover o separar algo pedazo por pedazo o pieza por pieza.
8. s. Selección
9. s. Derecho de elegir
10. s. Recolección
11. s. Picotazo.
12. s. Pico (herramienta).
inglés > inglés
pick
1. s. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
2. s. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
3. s. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
4. s. A choice; ability to choose.
5. s. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
6. s. (basketball) A screen.
7. s. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
8. s. (American football) An interception.
9. s. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
10. s. (baseball) A pickoff.
11. s. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
12. s. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
13. s. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
14. s. (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. s. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
16. s. (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.
español > inglés
coger
1. v. (Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain) to take, catch, hold, to get, to seize
2. v. to pick, harvest
3. v. to fish
4. v. to seize, arrest; to overtake
5. v. to get (a joke)
6. v. to collect
7. v. (vulgar, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Central America) to have sex, to fuck, to bang
8. v. (Spain) to imitate, learn
9. v. (Spain) to choose (a direction, route, when driving or walking)
10. v. (Spain) to turn to (when driving or walking)
11. v. (Spain) to board (means of transportation)
Tengo que coger el tren. - I have a train to catch.

Pronunciación

Ejemplos

Please pick me up at the airport at five.      Recógeme en el aeropuerto a las cinco, por favor. I will have my sister pick you up at the station.      Voy a pedir a mi hermana que te recoja en la estación. Don't pick up the cat.      No cojas el gato. Please help me pick out a sweater which matches my new dress.      Ayúdame a elegir un suéter que combine con mi nuevo vestido, por favor. Pick up that paper there on the floor.      Levanta ese papel del suelo.

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