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Definitions for picking
pick·ing

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word picking.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. picking, picknoun

    the quantity of a crop that is harvested

    "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years"

  2. pickingnoun

    the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

Wiktionary

  1. pickingnoun

    A gathering to pick fruit.

    We went to a strawberry picking last June.

  2. pickingnoun

    Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.

  3. pickingnoun

    Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.

ChatGPT

  1. picking

    Picking refers to the act of selecting or choosing items from a group or a variety of options. This can apply to various contexts, such as picking fruit from a tree, picking a person for a team, or picking a specific item from a collection of clothes, among other possibilities. The process usually involves making a decision based on preference, suitability, or requirement.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Picking

    of Pick

  2. Pickingnoun

    the act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick

  3. Pickingnoun

    the act of choosing, plucking, or gathering

  4. Pickingnoun

    that which is, or may be, picked or gleaned

  5. Pickingnoun

    pilfering; also, that which is pilfered

  6. Pickingnoun

    the pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks

  7. Pickingnoun

    rough sorting of ore

  8. Pickingnoun

    overburned bricks

  9. Pickingadjective

    done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound

  10. Pickingadjective

    nice; careful

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PICKING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Picking is ranked #47521 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Picking surname appeared 446 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Picking.

    88.7% or 396 total occurrences were White.
    4.9% or 22 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    4.4% or 20 total occurrences were Black.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'picking' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1936

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of picking in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of picking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of picking in a Sentence

  1. Nicholas Smith:

    It's not a very healthy recovery when pharmaceuticals are leading the charge, investors are picking up defensives and pretty expensive defensives at that.

  2. James Comey:

    A number of things had gone on which I can't talk about yet, that made me worry that the department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people's confidence in the justice system, and then the capper was -- and I'm not picking on the attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who I like very much -- but her meeting with President Clinton on that airplane was the capper for me, and I then said, you know what, the department cannot, by itself, credibly end this.

  3. President Barack Obama:

    I think Kentucky is going to take it, but, you know, I haven’t won since my first year in office. ... So I wouldn’t necessarily take my bracket and copy it, although I suspect I’m not the only person picking Kentucky.

  4. Chris Beauchamp:

    If we are seeing a continued flight to value, then the relative cheapness of European stocks is a big plus, the lack of expensive tech names has been a real boost for the FTSE 100, but other indices in Europe are picking up too.

  5. Richard VanVranken:

    It was about everything in New Jersey being ripe for the picking for New York and Philadelphia. That drives a lot of what we do, being able to serve the huge markets that we're right in the middle of.

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