pick
/pɪk/ sustantivo B1En español: pico, sacho, zapapico, piqueta
- A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
- An anchor.
- A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
- A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
- A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
- A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
- A choice; ability to choose.
- That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
Plural picks
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
- pick apart Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pick, ...
- pick off To remove by picking.
- pick on hostigar, meterse con, hacer rabiar
- pick out To remove by picking.
- 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 coger, asir, pepenar
De la biblioteca
So shaky was he that he could hardly pick up his change, and the clerk had helped him with it.
It never hurt him, however, and Dorothy would pick him up and set him upon his feet again, while he joined her in laughing merrily at his own mishap.
I don’t want an orphan girl and if I did she isn’t the style I’d pick out.
There isn’t a pick on my bones.
Otras coincidencias
- pick hurgar, esculcar, escarbar A1
- pick apart Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: ...
- pick off To remove by picking.
- pick on hostigar, meterse con, hacer rabiar
- pick out To remove by picking.
- 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 coger, asir, pepenar
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