pick

To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.

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.

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

To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

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

To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.

(transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.

(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.

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

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.

(transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

(basketball) To screen.