The act or process of picking up, Previous journalistic copy to which succeeding copy is added, (Electronics) the conversion of sound or light into electrical signals in a sound or image recording or transmitting device, verb_ eat by pecking at, like a bird, register (perceptual input), lift out or reflect from a background

Something or a group of things that are or may be picked, A gathering to pick fruit, the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.), verb_ Present participle of pick, adjective_ Done or made as with a pointed tool, obsolete Nice; careful

A tool for breaking hard surfaces, consisting of a curved bar sharpened at both ends and fitted to a long handle, Something, such as an ice pick, toothpick, or picklock, used for picking, Something selected as the most desirable; the best or choicest part, intransitive verb_ To play (an instrument) by plucking its strings, To decide with care or forethought, To be harvested or gathered, transitive verb_ To throw (a shuttle) across a loom

Conducive to inactivity or indolence, Depicted as reclining or lying on its side Used of a brand on livestock, a system of jointed bars capable of great extension, originally made for picking up something at a distance, now variously applied in machinery