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.
Chosen; selected.
(of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
the picked dogfish
Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
Pointed; sharp