pick
/pɪk/ verbe A1En français : prendre, cueillir, choisir, pincer
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. · Don't pick at that scab.· He picked his nose.
- 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 pick feathers from a fowl
- 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.
Pluriel pick · He/she/it picks · Prétérit picked · Participe passé picked · Forme en -ing picking
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Verbes à particule et expressions
- pick apart Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, ...
- pick off To remove by picking.
- pick on embêter
- pick out distinguer, faire la distinction, faire la différence
- pick over To choose all of the desirable items from (an array of op...
- pick through To look through a group or list in order to select what o...
- pick up soulever, prendre, collecter
Dans la bibliothèque
The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: “My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.”
Supposing that the Swan’s splendid white color arose from his washing in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools.
“Well, then, if you did, depend upon it, Fernand picked it up, and either copied it or caused it to be copied; perhaps, even, he did not take the trouble of recopying it.
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
Autres résultats
- pick pioche, passe-partout, choix B1
- pick apart Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- pick off To remove by picking.
- pick on embêter
- pick out distinguer, faire la distinction, faire la diff...
- pick over To choose all of the desirable items from
- pick through To look through a group or list in order to sel...
- pick up soulever, prendre, collecter
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