# picked

Pronunciation: say "PIKT" /pɪkt/

## Verb

1. Simple past and past participle of pick. — simple past and past participle of pick
   - Simple: Simple past and past participle of pick. Use this form for something that already happened.
   - _He picked a fight with the wrong stranger._
   - _The committee picked her proposal over three others._

## Adjective

2. Chosen or selected, especially as the best for a particular purpose.
   - Simple: Chosen carefully as the best of a group.
   - _The general led a picked force of his finest soldiers._
   - _Only picked candidates advanced to the final interview._
3. Having a pick, or a particular number or type of pick.
   - Simple: Having a pick, or a certain number or kind of pick.
   - _The smith forged a picked mattock for the quarry crew._
   - _A two-picked tool gives better grip on hard ground._
4. Played by plucking the strings of an instrument rather than strumming or bowing them.
   - Simple: Made or played by pulling on the strings of an instrument.
   - _The song opens with a delicate picked guitar line._
   - _His picked banjo part drives the whole tune forward._
5. Having a pike or spine on the back, as in certain fishes.
   - Simple: Having a sharp spine or point on the back.
   - _The picked dogfish defends itself with the spines set before its dorsal fins._
   - _Fishermen learned to grip the picked specimen well away from its back._

## Adjective

6. Fine, spruce, and elegant; neat and daintily precise in appearance or manner. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Looking fine, neat, and well dressed.
   - _The young clerk appeared remarkably picked in his finest clothes._
   - _Her picked manners impressed the visiting gentry at once._
7. Coming to a sharp point; pointed or tapering to a fine tip. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Having a sharp point.
   - _The carpenter shaped a picked end on each wooden peg._
   - _A picked iron rod served to pierce the thick leather._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/picked (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).