pick

Definitions

• 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.
• (basketball) A screen.
• (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
• (American football) An interception.
• (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
• (baseball) A pickoff.
• (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
• A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
• (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
• (printing) 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.
• (art) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
• (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.