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n. a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body; "he was called for setting an illegal pick"

n. a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material; "he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks"

n. the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War"

n. a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends; "they used picks and sledges to break the rocks"

pick, plectrum, plectron

n. a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

filling, pick, woof, weft

n. the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

choice, selection, pick

n. the person or thing chosen or selected; "he was my pick for mayor"

pick

v. remove in small bits; "pick meat from a bone"

pick

v. select carefully from a group; "She finally picked her successor"; "He picked his way carefully"

pick

v. provoke; "pick a fight or a quarrel"

pick

v. pilfer or rob; "pick pockets"

pick, clean

v. remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"

pick, break up

v. attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example; "Pick open the ice"

pick, foot

v. pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"

pluck, pick, cull

v. look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"

pick, nibble, piece, pick at, nibble at, eat intermittently

v. eat intermittently; take small bites of; "He pieced at the sandwich all morning"; "She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles"

aside, apart, not taken into account

adv. "These problems apart, the country is doing well"

apart, asunder, into pieces

adv. "torn asunder"

separated, apart, away from one another

adv. "These towns are many miles apart"

apart, sky-high, to pieces

adv. "The committee blasted the thesis sky-high"

aside, by, apart, on one side, set to one side

adv. "She put her sewing by when he entered"

detached, isolated, separated, apart

adj. being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"

isolated, disjunct, apart

adj. marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly

padding, cushioning

n. artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort

preference, druthers

n. the right or chance to choose; "given my druthers, I'd eat cake"

discrimination

n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

delicacy, discretion

n. refined taste; tact

taste, preference, predilection, penchant

n. a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

preference, predilection

n. a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

take, choose, select, make a choice, make a selection, pick out

v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her"

strain, sieve, sift

v. separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements; "sift the flour"

screen, sieve, sort, screen out

v. examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"

pull, draw, force

v. cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

choose, prefer, opt for, choose instead, choose as an alternative

v. select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative; "I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"; "She opted for the job on the East coast"

riddle, screen

v. separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

strain, filter, filtrate, separate out, filter out

v. remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

prefer, give priority to one creditor

v. give preference to one creditor over another

winnow, fan

v. separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field"

chew, jaw, masticate, manducate

v. chew (food); "He jawed his bubble gum"; "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"; "The cows were masticating the grass"

nibble, eat at, bite at

v. bite off very small pieces; "She nibbled on her cracker"

independent

adj. free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"

disjointed

adj. taken apart at the joints; "a disjointed fowl"

separated, spaced

adj. spaced apart

solitary

adj. being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"

independent

adj. free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"; "an independent republic"

singly, severally, one by one, separately, individually, on an individual basis

adv. apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"

separated, apart, away from one another

adv. "These towns are many miles apart"

aloof

adv. in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons readily enough"

only, alone, solely, exclusively

adv. "He works for Mr. Smith exclusively"

on one's own, independently, without outside help

adv. on your own; without outside help; "the children worked on the project independently"

singly, severally, one by one, separately, individually, on an individual basis

adv. apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly"

aside, apart, not taken into account

adv. "These problems apart, the country is doing well"

cull out

v. select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants"

pick up, receive

v. register (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"

feel, sense, pick up, perceive

v. to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"

pick up, give a ride to

v. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"

pluck, tweak, pick off, pull sharply, pull off, pull away from

v. pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"

pick over, sieve out

v. separate or remove; "The customer picked over the selection"

see, pick up, learn, hear, discover, find out, hear about, hear of, get a line on, get wind of, get word, become aware of, get to know

v. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"

abstracted, removed

adj. taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead

asunder

adj. widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as pole from pole"

discrete

adj. constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"

disjoint

adj. having no elements in common

isolated, disjunct, apart

adj. marked by separation of or from usually contiguous elements; "little isolated worlds, as abruptly disjunct and unexpected as a palm-shaded well in the Sahara"- Scientific Monthly

abstracted, removed

adj. taken out of or separated from; "possibility is...achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A.N.Whitehead

detached, isolated, separated, apart

adj. being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling"

asunder

adj. widely separated especially in space; "as wide asunder as pole from pole"

discrete

adj. constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions"

disjoint

adj. having no elements in common

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