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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.

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Source Word

pick

IPA(Pronunciation)

/pɪk/

Noun

slang obsolete dated Australia

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.

Japanese Meaning

（掘削用の）ピック、ツルハシ / （鍵を持たずに施錠を解除するための）ピックロック、解錠具 / （縮れた髪用の）広く間隔の空いた櫛

What is this buttons?

He grabbed a pick and started breaking up the frozen ground.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼はつるはしをつかんで凍った地面を砕き始めた。

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Sense（1）

A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.

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A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.

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A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.

Sense（4）

A choice; ability to choose.

France and Russia have the pick of our stables.

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Sense（5）

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

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

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(nautical, slang) An anchor.

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(basketball) A screen.

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

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(American football) An interception.

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(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.

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(baseball) A pickoff.

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A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

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

Take down my buckler […] and grind the pick on 't.

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If it be in the smallest degree gritty, it clogs the form, and consequently produces a thick and imperfect impression; no pains should, therefore, be spared to render it perfectly smooth; it may then be made to work as clear and free from picks

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

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(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.