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Pick may refer to:
[edit] 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
- [Mazhar's pick], a word used by pakistani army for brave soldiers .
[edit] Medical
[edit] Mathematics and computers
[edit] In music
- Plectrum, a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument; for example, guitar pick
- 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
[edit] Places
[edit] People
[edit] Miscellaneous
- 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
- Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus or foreign bodies from the nose with a finger
- Pick and roll, an offensive play in basketball
- U-Pick Live, a show aired on Nickelodeon between 2002 and 2005
- Pick A Box, a radio program
- Call pick-up, a system used in office telephony
- Pick-Up, a slang term that is commonly used in a gaming context
- 52 Pick-up, a practical joke disguised as a card game
- Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, named after Lewis A. Pick
- Anglers' or fishermen's slang for the Pickhandle barracuda
- Pickelhaube is a type of helmet.
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