picked
Because it is a word with a single syllable, picked is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofpicked
- To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
Example: "Don't pick at that scab."
- 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 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."
- To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
- 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."
- 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.
Example: "I gingerly picked my way between the thorny shrubs."
- To steal; to pilfer.
- To throw; to pitch.
- 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.
Example: "to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc."
- To screen.
- Chosen; selected.
- (of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
Example: "the picked dogfish"
- Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
- Pointed; sharp
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