Pick

Pick

The word Pick may refer to:

Tools and weapons

* Pickaxe, a tool used for manual labour
* Lock pick, a tool used for lock picking
* Lock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without its intended key
* Warded pick, a device for opening warded locks
* Toothpick, a piece of wood or other substance to remove food from the teeth after a meal
* Horseman's pick, a weapon used by cavalry units during the middle ages in Europe

Medical

* Niemann-Pick disease, an inherited condition
* Pick's Disease, a dementing illness

Mathematics and computers

* Pick's theorem in geometry
* Pick operating system, a computer operating system built around a multidimensional, variable data length database, often called "the Pick system" or simply "Pick"
* Pick matrix, a specific type of matrix (mathematics)
* Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick theorem, a mathematics theorem

In music

* Plectrum, a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument
* Guitar pick, a plectrum for a guitar
* Fingerpicking, a technique for playing the guitar using the fingertips and/or fingernails
* Sweep-picking, a guitar technique that involves playing one note per string

Places

* Pick City, North Dakota

People

* Albert Pick, German numismatist
* Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician
* Lewis A. Pick, United States Army Chief of Engineers
* Ludwig Pick, see Niemann-Pick disease
* Lupu Pick, German actor
* Thomas Pickering Pick, surgeon and author
* Sherwood Picking, United States Navy submarine commander

Miscellaneous

* Cherry picking, literally meaning harvesting cherries, used metaphorically to accuse someone of pointing at individual cases which seem to confirm his or her position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases that may contradict it
* Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus or foreign bodies from the nose with a finger
* Pick and roll, an offensive play in basketball
* U-Pick Live, a show aired on Nickelodeon between 2002 and 2005
* Pick A Box, a radio program
* Call pick-up, a system used in office telephony
* Pick-Up, a slang term that is commonly used in a gaming context
* 52 Pickup, a practical joke disguised as a card game
* 52 Pick-up, a thriller/action film starring Ann-Margret and Roy Scheider
* Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, named after Lewis A. Pick
* Anglers' or fishermen's slang for the Pickhandle barracuda
* Pickelhaube is a type of helmet
* "Pick" refers to an interception in American football

ee also

* pickle
* picket


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