picked

PIKT/pɪkt/

7 meanings of picked

1
verb
Simple past and past participle of pick. Use this form for something that already happened.
She picked an apple from the lowest branch.
They picked the blue team to go first.
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2
adjective
Chosen carefully as the best of a group.
Like choosing only the ripest fruit from the whole basket.
Only the picked players made the final team.
She joined a picked group of top students.
Similarselect, chosen, selected, elite
3
adjective
Having a pick, or a certain number or kind of pick.
The miner used a picked tool to break the rock.
He bought a double-picked hammer for the hardest jobs.
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4
adjective
Made or played by pulling on the strings of an instrument.
The picked melody sounded clear and bright.
She prefers a picked style over heavy strumming.
Similarplucked
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5
adjective
Having a sharp spine or point on the back.
The picked dogfish has a sharp spine in front of each fin.
Sailors handled the picked shark carefully to avoid its spines.
Similarspiny
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Less common meanings

6
adjectiveobsolete
Looking fine, neat, and well dressed.
He looked very picked in his new Sunday coat.
Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
c. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”Here, picked means neat, fine, and elegant.
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7
adjectiveobsolete
Having a sharp point.
He trimmed the stake to a picked end.
A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of HusbandryHere, picked means pointed at the tip.
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picked is a form of pick

pick, verb: To choose one thing from a group of options. Full entry

Forms: pickpicks he/she/itpicking -ing formpicked past tense, past participle
Spelling: pick → picked: add -ed
Sound: The ending sounds like /t/.

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