--- title: P — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 27 description: The 1498 words of the English dictionary under P, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / P # P — The English dictionary · page 27 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* (formal, especially US) A medical doctor, especially one who treats illness with medicine rather than surgery.[↗](../../physician/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The physician listened to my heart.[↗](../../physician/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ask your physician before taking new medicine.[↗](../../physician/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My aunt is a physician at the hospital.[↗](../../physician/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The king's physician gave him a bitter potion.[↗](../../physician/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A physician looks after people who are ill.[↗](../../physician/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Our family physician knows all of us.[↗](../../physician/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A wound from Kay's sword no physician could heal.[↗](../../physician/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father.[↗](../../physician/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah GEN.50.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../physician/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.[↗](../../physician/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.13.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../physician/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great; yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.[↗](../../physician/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings 2CH.16.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../physician/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **physicist** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A scientist who studies physics: the science of matter, energy, forces, light, sound, electricity and how the universe works.[↗](../../physicist/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Isaac Newton was a famous physicist.[↗](../../physicist/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Marie Curie was both a physicist and a chemist.[↗](../../physicist/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The physicist explained how rainbows form.[↗](../../physicist/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She wants to be a physicist and study black holes.[↗](../../physicist/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Physicists built the huge machine to smash atoms.[↗](../../physicist/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A physicist helped design the hospital's scanner.[↗](../../physicist/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **physics** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Physics is the science of matter and energy and how they act: forces, motion, light, sound, heat, electricity, magnetism and the universe.[↗](../../physics/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* We learned about forces in physics.[↗](../../physics/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Physics explains why things fall.[↗](../../physics/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My sister studies physics at university.[↗](../../physics/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The laws of physics say you can't make energy from nothing.[↗](../../physics/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Light, sound and magnets are physics topics.[↗](../../physics/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She wants to be a physics teacher.[↗](../../physics/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **physiological** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (science) Having to do with how the bodies of living things work: breathing, heart rate, digestion, growing.[↗](../../physiological/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Of the body rather than the mind: a physiological reaction is a body reaction.[↗](../../physiological/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* A racing heart is a physiological response to fear.[↗](../../physiological/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Food, water and sleep are basic physiological needs.[↗](../../physiological/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Exercise causes physiological changes like faster breathing.[↗](../../physiological/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Doctors study the physiological effects of being in space.[↗](../../physiological/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Blushing is a physiological reaction you can't easily control.[↗](../../physiological/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Some illnesses are physiological; others are psychological.[↗](../../physiological/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **physiology** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* The science of how the bodies of living things work and what their parts do.[↗](../../physiology/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It is unclear if the author or editor of this section is employing Hebrew terms in a novel way, is unfamiliar with human physiology, or is using animal organs to some symbolic effect, or some combination thereof.[↗](../../physiology/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../physiology/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") **physiotherapist** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A physiotherapist is a health worker who helps people move better and get stronger after an injury, illness or operation, using exercises, massage and stretches.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The physiotherapist gave me exercises for my knee.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · After the accident, Dad saw a physiotherapist every week.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The football team's physio ran onto the pitch.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Our physiotherapist showed Nan how to use a walking frame.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A physiotherapist helps you get stronger.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · I do my stretches every night, like the physiotherapist said.[↗](../../physiotherapist/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **physiotherapy** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Physiotherapy is treatment that helps people heal and move better using exercises, stretching, massage and sometimes heat or cold, not medicine.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* After breaking her leg, Mia had physiotherapy.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Physiotherapy helped Grandad walk again.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I go to physiotherapy on Thursdays.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Physiotherapy exercises can be hard work.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The swimmer needed physiotherapy for her shoulder.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her physiotherapy took six weeks.[↗](../../physiotherapy/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **physique** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The size and shape of a person's body, especially how strong and muscly it is.[↗](../../physique/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The swimmer has a powerful physique.[↗](../../physique/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The rugby player's physique was huge and strong.[↗](../../physique/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Each athlete's physique suits their sport.[↗](../../physique/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The giant in the story had a frightening physique.[↗](../../physique/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Exercise can change your physique over time.[↗](../../physique/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't compare your physique with photos online, which are often edited.[↗](../../physique/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **phytoplankton** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Phytoplankton are tiny living things, mostly too small to see, that float near the surface of seas and lakes and make their own food from sunlight, like plants do.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Phytoplankton float near the surface of the sea.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Phytoplankton use sunlight to make food, just like plants.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Tiny animals called zooplankton eat phytoplankton.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Ocean phytoplankton make about half of the Earth's oxygen.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A phytoplankton bloom turned the sea green.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Krill feed on phytoplankton, and whales eat krill.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Without phytoplankton, ocean food chains would collapse.[↗](../../phytoplankton/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pi** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pi is a special number, about 3.14, that links the distance around a circle to the distance across it.[↗](../../pi/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Pi (π) is also a letter of the Greek alphabet.[↗](../../pi/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Pi can also be a shrill, high sound, like the noise of a pipe.[↗](../../pi/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Use 3.14 for pi.[↗](../../pi/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The circumference is pi times the diameter.[↗](../../pi/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Area of a circle is pi times the radius times the radius.[↗](../../pi/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The symbol for pi is π.[↗](../../pi/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The digits of pi go on forever: 3.14159…[↗](../../pi/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · A wheel 1 meter across moves about 3.14 meters in one turn.[↗](../../pi/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Some people can remember a hundred digits of pi.[↗](../../pi/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Our class ate pie on Pi Day.[↗](../../pi/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · On he ran, and louder grew the sounds of pipe and drum: pi-pi-pi, pi-pi-pi, pi-pi-pi . . .zum, zum, zum, zum.[↗](../../pi/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · 'Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon, over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.[↗](../../pi/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.14.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pi/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.[↗](../../pi/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.14.9, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pi/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.[↗](../../pi/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets EZK.30.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pi/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") **piano** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A piano is a big musical instrument with black and white keys.[↗](../../piano/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") You press the keys and small hammers hit strings inside.[↗](../../piano/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In music, piano means play softly.[↗](../../piano/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She practises the piano 30 minutes a day.[↗](../../piano/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Each piano lesson costs 20 dollars.[↗](../../piano/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A piano has 88 keys.[↗](../../piano/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · How long did he play the piano this week?[↗](../../piano/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · She plays the piano in the school concert.[↗](../../piano/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys.[↗](../../piano/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Inside the piano, hammers hit the strings.[↗](../../piano/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Moving a piano needs four strong people.[↗](../../piano/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher wrote «p» for piano, which means softly.[↗](../../piano/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · But when the old man played, the piano sounded quite out of tune.[↗](../../piano/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **pic** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) Short for picture or photo.[↗](../../pic/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal, especially UK, Australia) A film, short for "picture" (old.[↗](../../pic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "the pics").[↗](../../pic/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Send me a pic of your new puppy\![↗](../../pic/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · That's a great pic of the beach.[↗](../../pic/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Can I take a pic of you?[↗](../../pic/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She changed her profile pic.[↗](../../pic/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · I've got loads of pics from the trip.[↗](../../pic/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Never send pics to strangers online.[↗](../../pic/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **pick** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To pick is to take something with your fingers; to pick up is to lift it and get it.[↗](../../pick/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To pick fruit or flowers is to pull them off the plant.[↗](../../pick/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To pick is to choose: «Pick a card».[↗](../../pick/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To pick someone up is to collect them in a car.[↗](../../pick/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* Your pick is your choice.[↗](../../pick/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* To pick can also mean to peck, as a bird does with its beak.[↗](../../pick/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Zoe picks up 3 more marbles.[↗](../../pick/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Ben picked 14 apples from the tree.[↗](../../pick/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Mia picks 5 flowers every day.[↗](../../pick/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Pick a number from 1 to 10.[↗](../../pick/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum picks me up from school at 3.[↗](../../pick/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Please pick up your toys.[↗](../../pick/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Take your pick of the cakes.[↗](../../pick/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · It is not kind to pick on younger children.[↗](../../pick/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!’[↗](../../pick/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.[↗](../../pick/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.30.17, JPS 1917)[↗](../../pick/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **pickaxe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pickaxe is a heavy tool with a long wooden handle and a curved metal head with a point on one or both ends, used for breaking hard ground, rock or ice.[↗](../../pickaxe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The miner swung his pickaxe at the rock.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Gold rush diggers carried pickaxes and shovels.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Workers broke up the road with a pickaxe.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · In the game you need a pickaxe to dig for diamonds.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · A pickaxe is too heavy for small children to use.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The climbers used an ice axe, a kind of small pickaxe.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Jack took a horn, a shovel, a pickaxe, his armor, and a dark lantern, and one winter’s evening he went to the mount.[↗](../../pickaxe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **picker** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A person who picks fruit, vegetables, flowers or cotton, often as a job.[↗](../../picker/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A person or tool that picks or chooses something: a litter picker, a nose picker (rude, joking).[↗](../../picker/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (work) A person in a warehouse who collects items for orders.[↗](../../picker/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Strawberry pickers start work very early in summer.[↗](../../picker/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We used litter pickers to clean the playground.[↗](../../picker/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My cousin worked as a fruit picker in Queensland.[↗](../../picker/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The machine is a cotton picker that harvests whole fields.[↗](../../picker/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grape pickers fill baskets in the vineyard.[↗](../../picker/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · «Stop it, you nose picker!» laughed my little brother.[↗](../../picker/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Warehouse pickers collect the things people order online.[↗](../../picker/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Every bush was weighted to the ground with the largest, dark red, ripe raspberries, such a wealth of berries as two little berry pickers had never found before\![↗](../../picker/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **picket** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pointed wooden stake, used in a fence: a «picket fence».[↗](../../picket/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (work) A group of workers on strike who stand outside their workplace to protest and ask others not to go in: a «picket line».[↗](../../picket/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (verb) To stand outside a place to protest.[↗](../../picket/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (old, army) A small group of soldiers on guard.[↗](../../picket/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* To picket an animal means to tie it to a stake for the night.[↗](../../picket/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The house has a white picket fence.[↗](../../picket/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurses stood on the picket line in the cold.[↗](../../picket/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Workers picketed the factory gates.[↗](../../picket/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Mum said she would not cross the picket line.[↗](../../picket/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The picket held signs asking for fair pay.[↗](../../picket/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · One picket in the fence was broken.[↗](../../picket/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · “Yes,” said Two Tails, with a laugh all up his trunk.[↗](../../picket/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") “I’m picketed for the night.[↗](../../picket/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pickle** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pickle is a vegetable, especially a small cucumber (gherkin), kept in vinegar or salty water so it lasts a long time and tastes sour.[↗](../../pickle/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (UK) Pickle is a thick, chunky, sour-sweet sauce eaten with cheese or cold meat, as in a cheese and pickle sandwich.[↗](../../pickle/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (informal) To be «in a pickle» means to be in a difficult or awkward situation.[↗](../../pickle/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (verb) To pickle food means to preserve it in vinegar or salt water.[↗](../../pickle/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (UK, informal) «Little pickle» is a fond name for a cheeky child.[↗](../../pickle/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 6:* A pickle can also be a small pool of water, a puddle.[↗](../../pickle/#m6 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dad likes a pickle on the side of his burger.[↗](../../pickle/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Can I have a cheese and pickle sandwich?[↗](../../pickle/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We pickled onions in vinegar in science club.[↗](../../pickle/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I was in a real pickle when I forgot my PE kit.[↗](../../pickle/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandma calls my baby sister a little pickle.[↗](../../pickle/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Pickling helped people keep food through the winter.[↗](../../pickle/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The jar of pickles was too tight to open.[↗](../../pickle/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · So he walked on till he came to the drain near by, with just a pickle of water and a foot of mud in it.[↗](../../pickle/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **pickled** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Pickled food has been kept in vinegar or salty water so it lasts a long time and tastes sour.[↗](../../pickled/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb) To pickle food is to keep it in vinegar or salt water.[↗](../../pickled/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (slang, old-fashioned) Pickled can mean drunk.[↗](../../pickled/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I love pickled onions with cheese.[↗](../../pickled/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Gran pickled the beetroot from her garden.[↗](../../pickled/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Pickled cucumbers are called gherkins.[↗](../../pickled/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Vinegar stops pickled food going bad.[↗](../../pickled/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The museum kept animals pickled in jars.[↗](../../pickled/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · (slang) Uncle Pete was a bit pickled after the party.[↗](../../pickled/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We pickled red cabbage in class.[↗](../../pickled/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pickpocket** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A thief who steals money, phones or wallets from people's pockets or bags without them noticing, often in crowds.[↗](../../pickpocket/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (verb, rare) To steal from someone's pocket in this way.[↗](../../pickpocket/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Beware of pickpockets on the crowded train.[↗](../../pickpocket/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A pickpocket stole Dad's wallet at the market.[↗](../../pickpocket/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The police caught the pickpocket red-handed.[↗](../../pickpocket/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep your phone in a zipped pocket to stop pickpockets.[↗](../../pickpocket/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The pickpocket bumped into her and took her purse.[↗](../../pickpocket/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · In the story, a boy is taught to be a pickpocket.[↗](../../pickpocket/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A pickpocket took 3 of the 10 coins; how many are left?[↗](../../pickpocket/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **pickup** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A pickup (pickup truck) is a vehicle with a cabin in front and an open back for carrying things.[↗](../../pickup/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A pickup is the act of collecting someone or something: «school pickup».[↗](../../pickup/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A pickup is a rise or improvement, for example in sales.[↗](../../pickup/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* (music) A pickup is the part on an electric guitar that turns string sounds into electric signals.[↗](../../pickup/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* (verb phrase, two words) To pick up is to lift something, to collect someone, or to learn something easily.[↗](../../pickup/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Grandpa drives a red pickup truck.[↗](../../pickup/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Pickup time is half past three.[↗](../../pickup/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Can you pick me up after football?[↗](../../pickup/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Please pick up your coat from the floor.[↗](../../pickup/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The pickup on the guitar was broken.[↗](../../pickup/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · She picked up French quickly on holiday.[↗](../../pickup/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · We loaded the hay into the back of the pickup.[↗](../../pickup/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Safety: wait inside the school until pickup.[↗](../../pickup/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **picky** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (informal) A picky person is hard to please and only likes certain things, especially food.[↗](../../picky/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Picky can mean fussing about small details.[↗](../../picky/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My little brother is a picky eater.[↗](../../picky/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't be so picky — just eat your peas.[↗](../../picky/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The cat is picky about its food.[↗](../../picky/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She's picky about which socks she wears.[↗](../../picky/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Picky eaters often try new foods slowly.[↗](../../picky/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · My teacher is picky about neat handwriting.[↗](../../picky/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He was too picky to choose a book.[↗](../../picky/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Are you a picky eater?[↗](../../picky/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/) … [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/P/page/26/) **27** 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