pick的意思|pick的解释-里氏词典

Pick \Pick\ (p[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked} (p[i^]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck;
akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G.
picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch}
to throw.]
1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]

As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak.

2. 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.

3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points;
as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.

5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to
pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the
stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with
the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to
pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak.

He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems
With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper.

7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable;
to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; --
often with out. ``One man picked out of ten thousand.''
--Shak.

8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to
collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often
with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up
information.

9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

{To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.

{To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}.

{To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's
Utopia).

{To pick off}.
(a) To pluck; to remove by picking.
(b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters
pick off the enemy.

{To pick out}.
(a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark
stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
(b) To select from a number or quantity.

{To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence
[Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.

{To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel
intentionally.

{To pick up}.
(a) To take up, as with the fingers.
(b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;
as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.

Pick \Pick\, v. i.
1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?
--Dryden.

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

3. To steal; to pilfer. ``To keep my hands from picking and
stealing.'' --Book of Com. Prayer.

{To pick up}, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in
health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]

Pick \Pick\, n. [F. pic a pickax, a pick. See {Pick}, and cf.
{Pike}.]
1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in
composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes
pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle
inserted in the middle, -- used for digging ino the ground
by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer
used for dressing millstones.

3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a
buckler. [Obs.] ``Take down my buckler . . . and grind the
pick on 't.'' --Beau. & Fl.

4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick; in cat
breeding, the owner of a stud gets the pick of the litter.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
--Ld. Lytton.

5. Hence: That which would be picked or chosen first; the
best; as, the pick of the flock.

6. (Print.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow
of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot
on a printed sheet. --MacKellar.

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

8. (Weaving) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate
of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per
minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a
weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.

{Pick dressing} (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a
pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or
depressions.

{Pick hammer}, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt,
used by miners.

What makes Cray Computer a more unusual pick for Mr. Duncan is that its earnings have been nonexistent. Nevertheless, he looks for the firm to break even next year and hit $3 a share in earnings by 1994.
On average, the London motorist can expect to pick up only one parking ticket for every 50 infringements.
"You can always pick some number and say, `Is this enough, or is this too little?"' he said.
'I'll pick it up and put it straight in the box.' The general indifference towards next month's elections is partly because the political parties have yet to launch their campaigns.
He spoke eloquently about his framework for taxation, but dodged being pinned down on detail. Second, Labour is trying to pick up what suits it from Germany, leaving the rest alone.
"He can pick and choose, and has complete freedom to take over whatever" inquiries or pending criminal cases he wants, this official said.
Small investors should pick specialized stocks with strong earnings potential and hope that the dollar won't fall much lower than its recent level around 1.82 marks, analysts say.
One of these sources, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, said at least 11 ships were heading home without new orders to pick up Mideast-bound cargo.
"We're going to pick up _ one way or the other _ all the oil that's out there," Exxon spokesman Don Cornett told reporters one week after the Exxon Valdez ran aground.
Germany has achieved this partly because the securities business has always been the domain of the banks. The London Stock Exchange, meanwhile, has been left to pick up the pieces from the unfortunate episode.
"She said, `I'll pick these children up Thursday,' and then she just walked off," he said.
But traders also appeared edgy over the interest-rate outlook, especially if business activity should pick up.
At least Mr. Abedi tried to help out the less for tunate, so why pick on him? Mr. Abedi himself doesn't quite see it this way, saying "The West has done no wrong by me."
It would prefer to cherry pick individual properties, while keeping a stern eye on its own gearing, now at 43 per cent. 'We are not going to buy because brokers say we should,' says Mr Hunt.
I am looking for the All-Ordinaries to pick up 50 to 100 points," says Mr.Thomas.
These senior judges still pick up all the pay raises given to active judges, and like active judges they can't have private law practices.
"Clayton's heart is in the right place, even if he doesn't pick the right words," Williams' spokesman, Bill Kenyon, said.
"I've had a father show up with a seven-week old baby to pick up a share," he says.
Five ships chartered by West Germany, Italy and France cruised to Albania on Thursday to pick up thousands of refugees who have packed Western embassies in the capital, Tirana, in the last two weeks.
The Vincennes did pick up from elsewhere a frequency normally emitted by warplanes, which contributed to the mistaken conclusion that the aircraft was an attacking F-14.
At the previous refunding in August, the slope of the yield curve was 18%, in other words an investor could pick up 18% in additional yield by moving from three-year notes to 30-year bonds.
Republicans may have been the party of low taxes and lower spending, but you can't pick and choose and blame the monstrous deficit spending on the Democrats and take credit for the lower taxes.
Mr. Udvar-Hazy said it is "99% sure" the company will make either an all-Boeing selection, or pick a McDonnell-Airbus combination that would shut out the Seattle-based giant completely.
The winners beat odds of 12.9 million to 1 to pick the six winning numbers from 1 to 54: 3, 14, 32, 40, 46 and 54.
Medicaid has been a particularly attractive vehicle for federal policy makers in an era of deficits and spending restraints because for every dollar in added Medicaid benefits, states pick up 45 cents on average.
He expressed surprise that there has been little debate about retaining the death penalty, but believes interest will pick up. "I suspect this is just one of many issues that will be discussed in the next few months," he said.
That's helped pick it up a little, but it's not like it was.
But wage rises may now be starting to pick up, in part because unemployment has fallen faster than expected. Most economists agree that Britain still has an output gap, although not on its size.
You've got to pick up the investment tools of the market."
Perhap's there'll be more opportunity to smile as things pick up.' The analogy with Downing Street should not be pursued too far: Thatcher went because she was pushed; Sir Bob served out his contract.

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