pick

(Tiếng Anh)

Noun

1. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
2. (slang) An anchor.
3. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
4. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
5. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
6. A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
7. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
8. A choice; ability to choose.
9. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
10. (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
11. A screen.
12. An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
13. An interception.
14. A good defensive play by an infielder.
15. A pickoff.
16. (dated) 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.
17. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
18. 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.

Verb

1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
2. 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.
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
7. (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. 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.
9. To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
10. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
13. To steal; to pilfer.
14. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
15. (dated, transitive) 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.
16. (ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
17. To screen.
18. (informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.

Phát âm là (IPA)

/pɪk/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh Trung cổ: piken

Được thừa hưởng từ Tiếng Anh cổ: *piccian

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Hà Lan: pikken

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Đức: picken

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Na Uy cổ: pikka

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Iceland: pikka

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Thụy Điển: picka

In summary

From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck.
Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)).

Từ đồng nghĩa

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🦶

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Câu

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