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The word 'Pick' may refer to:

Contents

Tools and weapons

Medical

Mathematics and computers

In music

Places

People

Miscellaneous

See also

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 picks are 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

People

★ Albert Pick, German numismatist

★ Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician

★ Gustav Pick, Austrian composer

★ 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

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 Pickup, a practical joke disguised as a card game

★ 52 Pick-up, a thriller/action film starring Ann-Margret and Roy Scheider

★ 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.

See also

★ pickle

★ picket