PICKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does picking mean? 

• PICKING (noun)
  The noun PICKING has 2 senses:

1. the quantity of a crop that is harvested

2. the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

  Familiarity information: PICKING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quantity of a crop that is harvested

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

pick; picking

Context example:

it was the biggest peach pick in years

Hypernyms ("picking" is a kind of...):

output; production; yield (the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time))

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("picking" is a kind of...):

manual labor; manual labour (labor done with the hands)

Derivation:

pick (look for and gather)

 Context examples 

“Really we must see Baynes at once,” cried Holmes, picking up his hat.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were a great many holidays at Plumfield, and one of the most delightful was the yearly apple-picking.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As you enter November, take things slowly as you might still be picking up the pieces of what occurred.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient engage in repetitive activities such as handling buttons, picking, wrapping string, etc.?

(NPI - Engage in Repetitive Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

He ran round, like a dog who is picking up a scent, and then turned upon my companion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, by carefully picking their way, they got safely along until they reached solid ground.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Current screening programmes for newborn babies are good at picking up moderate-to-profound levels of hearing loss, but not at detecting mild hearing loss.

(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)

I stopped, and, picking a cartridge from my pocket, I opened the breech of my gun.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To prove the dyes were picking up the inflammation and harmful proteins, they went on to analyse under the microscope 12 brains donated after death to the Cambridge Brain Bank.

(Inflammation in the brain linked to several forms of dementia, University of Cambridge)

The third, “Who has been picking my bread?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)