Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Pointed.
- adjective Chosen by careful selection.
- adjective Gathered, harvested, or plucked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a sharp point; pointed; piked; peaked: as, a picked stick.
- Covered with sharp points; prickly; spinous; echinate: as, the picked dogfish.
- Specially selected; hence, choicest or best: as, picked men.
- 2. Choice; affected; refined.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pointed; sharp.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
- adjective Carefully selected; chosen.
- adjective obsolete Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
- adjective (Zoöl.) See under
Dogfish . - adjective ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green,
picked out with red.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pick . - adjective obsolete
pointed ;sharp - adjective zoology Having a
pike orspine on the back. - adjective obsolete
fine ;spruce ;smart ;precise ;dainty
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A few years ago, a White female rapper named Sarai was marketed as the “female Eminem bad idea” and the label picked her first two singles as the horrid “Pack Ya Bags”and “Ladies”.
White Rapper’s Burden AKA Did Vanilla Ice Really Fuck It Up For Everybody? Dart Adams 2007
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Robinson Crusoe popped out at her, the title picked out in gold on the spine.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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She stamped her foot impotently because she could not think of anything else to do—and without a word picked up the lamp and started up the stairs.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She stamped her foot impotently because she could not think of anything else to do—and without a word picked up the lamp and started up the stairs.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She stamped her foot impotently because she could not think of anything else to do—and without a word picked up the lamp and started up the stairs.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She stamped her foot impotently because she could not think of anything else to do—and without a word picked up the lamp and started up the stairs.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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She stamped her foot impotently because she could not think of anything else to do—and without a word picked up the lamp and started up the stairs.
Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell 1996
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Bailey adds many filmmakers come for the TIFF marketplace hoping to get their title picked up by a distributor that will get it into theatres, so the opening gala slot is a better place for a movie that already has a deal.
Thestar.com - Home Page Linda Barnard 2011
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The title picked up the Game of the Year award and took home another nine prizes during the ceremony, including those for Game Direction, Original Story and Adventure Game of the Year.
Softpedia - Windows - All Andrei Dumitrescu 2010
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The title picked up the Game of the Year award and took home another nine prizes during the ceremony, including those for Game Direction, Original Story and Adventure Game of the Year.
Softpedia - Windows - All Andrei Dumitrescu 2010
hernesheir commented on the word picked
Instrumental music where instrument strings are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum or fingerpicks.
June 10, 2010