pick
part of speech
verb (pick, picks, picked, picking); noun (a pick)
meaning for a pupil
1) To pick is to take something with your fingers; to pick up is to lift it and get it. tree →
2) To pick fruit or flowers is to pull them off the plant. tree →
3) To pick is to choose: «Pick a card». tree →
4) To pick someone up is to collect them in a car. tree →
5) Your pick is your choice. tree →
6) To pick can also mean to peck, as a bird does with its beak. tree →
sense in the lessons
to get more things by taking them up or from a plant; «pick» can also mean choose; phrases: «pick up», «pick out», «pick on» (be unkind to), «take your pick»
examples
- Zoe picks up 3 more marbles. tree →
- Ben picked 14 apples from the tree. tree →
- Mia picks 5 flowers every day. tree →
- Pick a number from 1 to 10. tree →
- Mum picks me up from school at 3. tree →
- Please pick up your toys. tree →
- Take your pick of the cakes. tree →
- It is not kind to pick on younger children. tree →
- Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!’ tree →
note
«picks up N more» adds N to the one who picks them up. Trap: «pick a number» means choose, not add. «picks N a day for D days» is N × D. Safety: never pick and eat wild berries or mushrooms without an adult.
In the corpora
- Being turned down is normal for everyone, and being picked is the reward for trying again and again.
- A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling downhill: it picks up bits on the way.
- Which bits do you reckon they picked?" Alfie grins: "The shouty ones."
- Bots often give the most common human answer, so many of them pick 7 when asked for a number from 1 to 10.
- A simple next-word guesser counts which words came after a word in its text and picks the one it saw most often.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pick» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.