pick

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.

An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

An interception.

A good defensive play by an infielder.

A pickoff.

A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

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.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

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”

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

“Don't pick at that scab.”

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.”

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

“She picked flowers in the meadow.”

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

“to pick rags”

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”

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

“I'll pick the one with the nicest name.”

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

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.”

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

“He picked a tune on his banjo.”

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

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

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

“I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs.”

To steal; to pilfer.

To throw; to pitch.

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.

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

“to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.”

To screen.