picks
/pɪks/ · noun
Meaning
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
- A screen.
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
- 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.
- To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
- To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
- To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
- To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
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