Pick

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The word Pick may refer to:

Tools and weapons

• Pickaxe, a tool used for manual labour
• Lock pick, a tool used for lock picking
• Lock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without its intended key
• Warded pick, a device for opening warded locks
• Toothpick, a piece of wood or other substance to remove food from the teeth after a meal
• Horseman's pick, a weapon used by cavalry units during the Middle Ages in Europe

Medical

• Niemann-Pick disease, an inherited condition
• Pick's Disease, a dementing illness

Mathematics and computers

• Pick's theorem in geometry
• Pick operating system, a computer operating system built around a multidimensional, variable data length database, often called "the Pick system" or simply "Pick"
• Pick matrix, a specific type of matrix (mathematics)
• Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick theorem, a mathematics theorem

In music

• Plectrum, a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument
• Guitar pick, a plectrum for a guitar
• Fingerpicking, a technique for playing the guitar using the fingertips and/or fingernails
• Sweep-picking, a guitar technique that involves playing one note per string

Places

• Pick City, North Dakota
• Pick Mere, a lake in Cheshire, England

People

• Albert Pick, German numismatist
• Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician
• Lewis A. Pick, United States Army Chief of Engineers
• Ludwig Pick, see Niemann-Pick disease
• Lupu Pick, German actor
• Thomas Pickering Pick, surgeon and author
• Sherwood Picking, United States Navy submarine commander
• Tzvika Pick, Israeli popular music composer

Miscellaneous

• 52 Pick-up, a thriller/action film starring Ann-Margret and Roy Scheider
• 52 Pickup, a practical joke disguised as a card game
• Call pick-up, a system used in office telephony
• Cherry picking, literally meaning harvesting cherries, used metaphorically to accuse someone of pointing at individual cases which seem to confirm his or her position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases that may contradict it
• Icepick
• Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus or foreign bodies from the nose with a finger
• Pick refers to an interception in American football
• Pick refers to a screen in basketball
• Pick A Box, a radio program
• Pick and roll, an offensive play in basketball
• Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, named after Lewis A. Pick
• Pick-up (gaming), a slang term that is commonly used in a gaming context
• Pickelhaube is a type of helmet
• Anglers' or fishermen's slang for the Pickhandle barracuda
• U-Pick Live, a show aired on Nickelodeon between 2002 and 2005

See also

• pickle
• picket

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