Picks Synonyms and Antonyms

To use a pointed instrument
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. strikes
  2. indents
  3. dents
Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. plunks
  2. strips
  3. pecks
  4. plucks
Eat intermittently; take small bites of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. nibbles
  2. reaps
  3. cleans
  4. separates
  5. harvests
  6. gathers
  7. garners
  8. selects
  9. crops
Antonyms:
  1. refuses
  2. rejects
The superlative or most preferable part of something
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. flowers
  2. elites
  3. creams
  4. bests
  5. top
  6. prize
  7. choices
The act of choosing or selecting
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. selections
  2. elects
  3. creams
  4. plectra
  5. options
  6. choices
  7. top
Antonyms:
  1. rejections
A small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. plectra
  2. dents
  3. nips
  4. pecks
Pay for something
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. foots
The best people or things in a group
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. woofs
  2. creams
  3. fillings

Words Related to Picks

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Picks Sentence Examples

  • This coloring matter, as shown by its absorption spectrum, picks out of the ordinary beam of light a large proportion of its red and blue rays, together with some of the green and yellow.

  • I buy my pecans from someone who picks and shells them himself.

  • In the breeding season the male deposits drops of sperm on a sheet of webbing, picks it up in these flasks by means of capillary attraction and carries it about until he falls in with a female.

  • From a hilltop you can see a fish leap in almost any part; for not a pickerel or shiner picks an insect from this smooth surface but it manifestly disturbs the equilibrium of the whole lake.

  • One is to hold the transducer that picks up the FHR and the other is to hold a tocodynanometer, which picks up uterine activity or contractions.

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