Definitions for picked
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Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pickedadjective

   Sharp; smart.

   Etymology: pique, Fr.

   Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Picked

   of Pick

2. Pickedadjective

   pointed; sharp

3. Pickedadjective

   having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes

4. Pickedadjective

   carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men

5. Pickedadjective

   fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'picked' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1760

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'picked' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1119

How to pronounce picked?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say picked in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of picked in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of picked in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of picked in a Sentence

1. Bryan Riley:

   What makes it so gut-wrenching is that these innocent people died and they were randomly picked out. This wasn’t a fight that went bad, this wasn’t a disturbance that escalated, when you see a 3-month-old, little, beautiful baby boy deceased in the arms of his mother, where she’s trying to protect him, and she’s murdered, he’s murdered, and his daddy’s murdered — that’s pretty rough.

2. Frank Lucas:

   The heavy costs of EPA's regulations warrant some degree of public oversight to ensure SAB's findings are free from bias or conflicts of interest and not simply provided by a set of hand-picked advisers.

3. Philipp Heck:

   With this study, we have directly determined the lifetimes of stardust. We hope this will be picked up and studied so that people can use this as input for models of the whole galactic life cycle, it's so exciting to look at the history of our galaxy. Stardust is the oldest material to reach Earth, and from it, we can learn about our parent stars, the origin of the carbon in our bodies [ and ] the origin of the oxygen we breathe. With stardust, we can trace that material back to the time before the sun.

4. Eric Wilson:

   It could do wonders for the watch market if it means people might wear watches again, but realistically, there are a lot of doubts, fashion customers are more skeptical than anyone, so Apple has picked a tough crowd.

5. Andrea DeLeon:

   I literally found a Juul on the street, i picked it up and took it home, cleaned the tip, and I was like, alright this is gonna be cheaper because I got this for free and I'm not gonna be buying cigarettes for like $18.

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References

1. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=picked
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/picked