Choice vs. Pick

An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

Example: ‘Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?’;

(uncountable) The power to choose.

Example: ‘She didn't leave us much choice.’;

One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

Example: ‘The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.’;

Anything that can be chosen.

Example: ‘You have three choices: vanilla, strawberry or chocolate’;

The best or most preferable part.

(obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.

(obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.

Especially good or preferred.

Example: ‘It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.’;

Cool; excellent.

Example: ‘Choice! I'm going to the movies.’;

(obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.

The power or opportunity of choosing; option.

Example: ‘Choice there is not, unless the thing which we take be so in our power that we might have refused it.’;

Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.

Example: ‘I imagine they [the apothegms of Cæsar] were collected with judgment and choice.’;

A sufficient number to choose among.

The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.

Example: ‘The common wealth is sick of their own choice.’;

The best part; that which is preferable.

Example: ‘The flower and choiceOf many provinces from bound to bound.’;

Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.

Example: ‘My choicest hours of life are lost.’;

Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; - used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.

Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

Example: ‘Choice word measured phrase.’;

the person or thing chosen or selected;

Example: ‘he was my pick for mayor’;

the act of choosing or selecting;

Example: ‘your choice of colors was unfortunate’; ‘you can take your pick’;

one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen;

Example: ‘what option did I have?’; ‘there no other alternative’; ‘my only choice is to refuse’;

of superior grade;

Example: ‘choice wines’; ‘prime beef’; ‘prize carnations’; ‘quality paper’; ‘select peaches’;

appealing to refined taste;

Example: ‘choice wine’;

an act of choosing between two or more possibilities

Example: ‘the choice between good and evil’;

the right or ability to choose

Example: ‘I had to do it, I had no choice’;

a range of possibilities from which one or more may be chosen

Example: ‘you can have a sofa made in a choice of forty fabrics’;

a thing or person which is chosen

Example: ‘this disk drive is the perfect choice for your computer’;

(especially of food) of very good quality

Example: ‘he picked some choice early plums’;

(of words or language) rude and abusive

Example: ‘he had a few choice words at his command’;

A choice is the range of different things from which you can choose. The arrival at a choice may incorporate motivators and models.

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

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 choice; ability to choose.

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

(basketball) A screen.

(lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

(American football) An interception.

(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.

(baseball) A pickoff.

(music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.

A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

(obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.

Example: ‘so many picks to an inch’;

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘It's time to pick the tomatoes.’;

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘to pick rags’;

To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.

Example: ‘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.

Example: ‘I'll pick the one with the nicest name.’; ‘Seek an opportunity to quarrel or argue with someone.’;

(cricket) 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.

Example: ‘He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.’;

(music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.

Example: ‘He picked a tune on his banjo.’;

To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.

To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

To steal; to pilfer.

(obsolete) To throw; to pitch.

(dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

(ambitransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

Example: ‘to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.’;

To throw; to pitch.

Example: ‘As high as I could pick my lance.’;

To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

To open (a lock) as by a wire.

To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

Example: ‘Did you pick Master Slender's purse?’; ‘He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seemsWith an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.’;

To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; - often with out.

To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; - often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.

To trim.

To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

Example: ‘Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?’;

To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

To steal; to pilfer.

A sharp-pointed tool for picking; - often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, - used for digging ino the ground by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick; in cat breeding, the owner of a stud gets the pick of the litter.

Example: ‘France and Russia have the pick of our stables.’;

That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.

That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

The blow which drives the shuttle, - the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute;

the person or thing chosen or selected;

Example: ‘he was my pick for mayor’;

the quantity of a crop that is harvested;

Example: ‘he sent the first picking of berries to the market’; ‘it was the biggest peach pick in years’;

the best people or things in a group;

Example: ‘the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War’;

the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

a thin sharp implement used for picking;

Example: ‘he used a pick to clean dirt out of the cracks’;

a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends;

Example: ‘they used picks and sledges to break the rocks’;

a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body;

Example: ‘he was called for setting an illegal pick’;

the act of choosing or selecting;

Example: ‘your choice of colors was unfortunate’; ‘you can take your pick’;

select carefully from a group;

Example: ‘She finally picked her successor’; ‘He picked his way carefully’;

look for and gather;

Example: ‘pick mushrooms’; ‘pick flowers’;

harass with constant criticism;

Example: ‘Don't always pick on your little brother’;

provoke;

Example: ‘pick a fight or a quarrel’;

remove in small bits;

Example: ‘pick meat from a bone’;

remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits;

Example: ‘Clean the turkey’;

pilfer or rob;

Example: ‘pick pockets’;

pay for something;

Example: ‘pick up the tab’; ‘pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages’; ‘foot the bill’;

pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;

Example: ‘he plucked the strings of his mandolin’;

attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example;

Example: ‘Pick open the ice’;

hit lightly with a picking motion

eat intermittently; take small bites of;

Example: ‘He pieced at the sandwich all morning’; ‘She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles’;

detach and remove (a flower, fruit, or vegetable) from where it is growing

Example: ‘I went to pick some flowers for Jenny's room’;

take hold of and lift or move

Example: ‘picking her up, he carried her from the room’; ‘he picked a match out of the ashtray’;

take hold of and lift up one's ball, especially when conceding a hole.

choose (someone or something) from a number of alternatives

Example: ‘Maggie picked on a nice reliable chap’; ‘maybe I picked the wrong career’; ‘he was picked for the England squad’;

walk slowly and carefully, selecting the best places to put one's feet

Example: ‘he picked his way along the track, avoiding the potholes’;

repeatedly pull at something with one's fingers

Example: ‘the old woman was picking at the sheet’;

make (a hole) in fabric by pulling at it with one's fingers

Example: ‘she picked a hole in her tights’;

eat food in small amounts or without much appetite

Example: ‘she picked at her breakfast’;

remove unwanted matter from (one's nose or teeth) by using one's finger or a pointed instrument

Example: ‘he picked his teeth with a matchstick’;

criticize someone in a petty way

Example: ‘don't start picking at Ruth’;

pluck the strings of (a guitar or banjo)

Example: ‘people were singing and picking guitars’;

an act or the right of selecting something from a number of alternatives

Example: ‘Laura should have first pick’; ‘take your pick from our extensive menu’;

the person or thing perceived as the best in a group

Example: ‘he was the pick of the bunch’;

someone or something that has been selected

Example: ‘the club made him their first pick’;

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

Example: ‘an ebony hair pick’;

a plectrum

Example: ‘a pink guitar pick’;