cueillette

Phonetic: "/ˈpɪkɪŋ/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

Example: Don't pick at that scab.

Definition: 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.

Example: It's time to pick the tomatoes.

Definition: To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

Example: She picked flowers in the meadow.

Definition: To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

Example: to pick rags

Definition: To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

Example: to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket

Definition: To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

Example: I'll pick the one with the nicest name.

Definition: To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.

Definition: 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.

Example: He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.

Definition: To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

Example: He picked a tune on his banjo.

Definition: To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

Definition: To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

Definition: To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

Example: I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.

Definition: To steal; to pilfer.

Definition: To throw; to pitch.

Definition: 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.

Definition: To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

Example: to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

Definition: To screen.

Phonetic: "/ˈpɪkɪŋ/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A gathering to pick fruit.

Example: We went to a strawberry picking last June.

Definition: (usually pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.

Definition: (usually pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in an unscrupulous or objectionable manner.

Definition: Something picked or pulled out.

Example: The schoolboy flicked his nose pickings across the classroom.

Definition: The act of making a choice; selection.

Definition: The final finishing of woven fabrics by removing burs, etc.

Definition: The removal of defects from electrotype plates.

Definition: Dabbing in stoneworking.