Picking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PICKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• detach and remove (a flower, fruit, or vegetable) from where it is growing
• take hold of and lift or move
• choose (someone or something) from a number of alternatives
• eat food in small amounts or without much appetite
• criticize someone in a petty way
• pluck the strings of (a guitar or banjo)
• take hold of and lift up one's ball, especially when conceding a hole.
• walk slowly and carefully, selecting the best places to put one's feet
• repeatedly pull at something with one's fingers
• make (a hole) in fabric by pulling at it with one's fingers
• remove unwanted matter from (one's nose or teeth) by using one's finger or a pointed instrument
NOUN:
• the act of one who picks
• an act or the right of selecting something from a number of alternatives
• the person or thing perceived as the best in a group
• someone or something that has been selected
• an act of blocking or screening a defensive player from the ball handler.
• a tool consisting of a long handle set at right angles in the middle of a curved iron or steel bar with a point at one end and a chisel edge or point at the other, used for breaking up hard ground or rock.
• an instrument for picking
• a plectrum
• The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
• The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
• That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
• Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
• The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
• Rough sorting of ore.
• Overburned bricks.
• the quantity of a crop that is harvested
• the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)
ADJECTIVE:
• Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
• Nice; careful.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to select
• the act of one that picks

Words related to PICKING

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Words that contain PICKING

pickings17 unpicking18 nitpicking19 flatpicking23 handpicking24 nitpickings20 fingerpicking26 fingerpickings27

How to use PICKING in a sentence

• Then he blew his horn, and in a little while all his subjects came, and began picking up the grain and putting it into the jars.
• While going over our cotton picking for the last time, one of our hands named Little John, ran away.
• Then we turned off into some dim cool woods, picking our way through rough ravines and blind tracks until we reached another little cabin home.
• Out in the still fields the negroes were picking cotton.
• He smiled at her, as she was picking over her basket of strawberries with an eager hand.
• The woman came every day, picking and scratching like an old hen, and went away at sundown.
• I could not think of anything that it would be safe to say under the circumstances, so I went away while the farmer was picking up the fragments.
• In yet another mood, as they constantly, day by day, look down upon the race of men, dying day by day, they are regarded as picking daily candidates for the final journey.
• I set him down for a crank or some one just picking up from serious illness.
• Buyers come round the country and purchase the crops as they are on the trees, taking upon themselves the picking and packing.
• It was a trying time, and it took all the fortitude I had to look hopefully forward toward a day when things would begin picking up and the wheels of industry would whirl again.
• Any productive processes undertaken by this kind of society are subordinate to the main business, being such as picking, packing, drying, preserving, and making boxes for packing.
• He soon got tired of picking up the stones one by one, and so he sat down upon the bank to try to devise some better means of accomplishing his work.
• From this picking the finest kinds of tea are made, although the quantity is small.
• Picking it up, he saw a bullet-hole in the shell near the middle.
• Of course, they went back, and, picking him up, brought him safe home.
• Meanwhile I wandered about the village, accompanied by some women and children, picking up at the same time materials for my vocabulary.
• He was picking these chickens in a shed attached to the barn.
• And so, while grumbling in a low tone, he ended by picking them up one by one and spreading them over the chairs in the sunlight.
• Then, picking up a French paper in the Monico one morning, he experienced a shock.

Similar words containing PICK without suffix ing

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