Synonyms for picking
pick·ing

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1. pickingnoun

   A gathering to pick fruit.

   We went to a strawberry picking last June.

   Synonyms:
   leftover

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. picking, picknoun

   the quantity of a crop that is harvested

   "he sent the first picking of berries to the market"; "it was the biggest peach pick in years"

   Synonyms:
   plectron, pickaxe, selection, cream, choice, plectrum, option, woof, pickax, filling, pick, weft

2. pickingnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   pick

Matched Categories

1. • Manual Labor
   • Output

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1. List of paraphrases for "picking":

   pick, collection, gathering

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How to use picking in a sentence?

1. Linwood Jackson Jr.:

   Whatever your bottle of liquor is, nothing is worth picking it up, and losing your self.

2. Larry Hogan:

   Im not sure ... putting an artificial deadline of saying were going to get everything open by Easter is unrealistic from all the experts and the scientists that were talking to, this idea of somehow without any real data picking high risk versus low risk -- I dont think thats really realistic.

3. Kris Brown:

   This proposal reveals one important fact from the White House : they recognize the problem of the private sale loophole that allows 20 percent of guns to be sold with no background check at all. ... We agree the private sale loophole must be fixed, but it should be fixed in a way that allows meaningful enforcement, not easy circumvention that endangers lives, the right balance was struck by the House, which passed a background checks bill where sales by private sellers are completed by a federally licensed firearms dealer to confirm the person purchasing the gun is the same person who is picking up the gun and other assessments of risk before completion of the sale are done. If we want to save lives and meaningfully fix the private sale loophole, S. 42, now 200 days and counting on Mitch McConnell's desk is the way to do it.

4. Chuck Schumer:

   Every day, Republican obstruction of Kavanaugh's record gets worse and worse, not only is a massively conflicted Republican lawyer, who previously worked for Judge Judge Kavanaugh, cherry-picking what documents Senate Judiciary Committee can see, he is now telling the Committee what the rest of the Senate and the American public can see -- and Republicans are playing along.

5. David Segre:

   It was really scary, it was like a gear had let loose and it was slowly picking up speed going the wrong way.