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# pick

«pick» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take something with your fingers; to pick up is to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#m1)

2) To pick fruit or flowers is to pull them off the plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#m2)

3) To pick is to choose: «Pick a card». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#m3)

4) To pick someone up is to collect them in a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#m4)

5) Your pick is your choice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#m5)

6) To pick can also mean to peck, as a bird does with its beak. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#m6)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x1)
- Ben picked 14 apples from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x2)
- Mia picks 5 flowers every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x3)
- Pick a number from 1 to 10. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x4)
- Mum picks me up from school at 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x5)
- Please pick up your toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x6)
- Take your pick of the cakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x7)
- It is not kind to pick on younger children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x8)
- Haste ye, haste ye!--pick, pick, pick!’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/3/)
- [A story passed from person to person is like a snowball rolling downhill: it picks up bits on the way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/0/)
- [Which bits do you reckon they picked?" Alfie grins: "The shouty ones."](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/7/)
- [Bots often give the most common human answer, so many of them pick 7 when asked for a number from 1 to 10.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/12/)
- [A simple next-word guesser counts which words came after a word in its text and picks the one it saw most often.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pick» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pick/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.