To Pick

1. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
2. 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.
3. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
4. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
5. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
6. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
7. (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. (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.
9. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
10. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
13. To steal; to pilfer.
14. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
15. (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.
16. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
17. (basketball) To screen.