Kick vs Pick - What's the difference?
kick | pick |
To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
* 1877 , , Chapter 1: My Early Home,
* 1895 , , Chapter XII: Friends and Foes,
* 1905 , , Chapter 6,
* 1919 , , The Teacher: concerning Kate Swift,
To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
* 1904 , , Chapter II: Rope Jumping, and What Followed,
To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
* 1905 , , Chapter 7,
To eject summarily.
* 1936 October,
* 1976 February 3, ,
(Internet) To remove a participant from an online activity.
(slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free onself of (a problem).
To move or push suddenly and violently.
* 2011 , Tom Andry,
(of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
* 2003 , Jennifer C. D. Groomes, The Falcon Project ,
* 2006 , Daniel D. Scherschel, Maple Grove ,
A hit or strike with the leg or foot or knee.
* 1890 , , Chapter VII: A Raid on the Stable-Beer Dives,
* 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
The action of swinging a foot or leg.
(colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
(Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it is pressed causes a video game character to kick.
(figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
(uncountable, and, countable) piquancy
* 2002 , Ellen and Michael Albertson, Temptations , , ISBN 0743229800, page 124 [http://books.google.com/books?id=cITFVpz2ri8C&pg=PA124&dq=kick]:
* 2003 , Sheree Bykofsky and Megan Buckley, Sexy City Cocktails , , ISBN 1580629172, page 129 [http://books.google.com/books?id=GBO9qF3uXYUC&pg=PA129&dq=kick]:
* 2007 August 27, , volume 83, Issues 22-28
A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
(soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
(soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
a recoil of a gun.
(informal) pocket
An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
(chess) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
A choice; ability to choose.
* Lord Lytton
That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
(basketball) A screen.
(lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
(American football) An interception.
(baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
(baseball) A pickoff.
(music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
(obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
(art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
(weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
* Shakespeare
* Cowper
To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
(cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
(music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
* Dryden
To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
To steal; to pilfer.
* Book of Common Prayer
(obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
* Shakespeare
(dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
As nouns the difference between kick and pick
is that kick is kick while pick is a tool used for digging; a pickaxe.As a verb pick is
to grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.kick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . See (l).Verb
(en verb)- Did you kick your brother?
- Sometimes we had rather rough play, for they would frequently bite and kick as well as gallop.
- I was cuffed by the women and kicked by the men because I would not swallow it.
- A punt is made by letting the ball drop from the hands and kicking it just before it touches the ground.
- Will Henderson, who had on a light overcoat and no overshoes, kicked the heel of his left foot with the toe of the right.
- He enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching the kickline kick .
- "If you did that, I'd kick'," answered Freddie, and began to ' kick real hard into the air.
- Kick the ball into the goal.
- Sometimes he can kick' the ball forward along the ground until it is ' kicked in goal, where he can fall on it for a touchdown.
- "He's been mad at me ever since I fired him off'n my payroll. After I kicked him off'n my ranch he run for sheriff, and the night of the election everybody was so drunk they voted for him by mistake, or for a joke, or somethin', and since he's been in office he's been lettin' the sheepmen steal me right out of house and home."
- They are the ones who give hobbyists a bad name, and should be kicked out of any club meeting they show up at.
- He was kicked by ChanServ for flooding.
- By taking that medication, he managed to get his triggered phobia of heights kicked .
- I still smoke, but they keep telling me to kick the habit.
- He was kicked sideways by the force of the blast.
Bob Moore: No Hero,
- The back of the car kicked out violently, forcing me to steer into the slide and accelerate in order to maintain control.
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- Lying on the ground, when fired, it kicked me back a foot. There was no way a person my size was going to be able to do an effective job with this gun.
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- I asked my sister Jeanette if she wanted to shoot the 12 ga. shotgun. She replied, "does it kick "?
Descendants
* German: (l)Noun
(en noun)- A kick to the knee.
- A kick of his boot-heel sent the door flying into the room.
- Elsad Zverotic gave Montenegro hope with a goal with the last kick of the first half - and when Rooney was deservedly shown red by referee Wolfgang Stark, England were placed under pressure they could not survive.
- The ballerina did a high kick and a leap.
- I finally saw the show. What a kick !
- I think I sprained something on my latest exercise kick .
- The car had a nasty kick the whole way.
- The pool ball took a wild kick , up off the table.
- Add a little cascabel pepper to ordinary tomato sauce to give it a kick .
- For extra kick , hollow out a lime, float it on top of the drink, and fill it with tequila.
- The first time I saw "Deep Water," the trace of mystery in the Crowhurst affair gave the movie a kick of excitement.
- a long kick up the field.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "kick")Descendants
* German: (l)Derived terms
* drop kick * for kicks * free kick * get a kick out of * on a kick * kick about * kick against the pricks * kick around * kick ass, kick butt * kick at the can * kick back * kickban (Internet) * kickboxing * kick the bucket * kickflip * kick in * kick in the pants * kick in the teeth * kick it * kick like a mule * kick off (pos v) * kick-off (pos n) * kick one's heels * kick out * kick over * kick over the traces * kick someone when they are down * kickstand * kick start * kick the can, kick-the-can * kick the can down the road * kick the habit * kick up * kick up the arse/kick up the ass/kick up the backside/kick up the butt * kick up one's heels * kick upstairs * kick wheelEtymology 2
Shortening of (kick the bucket)pick
English
(wikipedia pick)Noun
(en noun)- France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
- Take down my buckler and grind the pick on 't.
- (MacKellar)
- so many picks to an inch
Derived terms
* pickaxe * take one's pick * toothpickVerb
(en verb)- Don't pick at that scab.
- He picked his nose.
- It's time to pick the tomatoes.
- She picked flowers in the meadow.
- to pick feathers from a fowl
- to pick rags
- to pick''' the teeth; to '''pick''' a bone; to '''pick''' a goose; to '''pick a pocket
- Did you pick Master Slender's purse?
- He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems / With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet.
- I'll pick the one with the nicest name.
- He didn't pick the googly, and was bowled.
- He picked a tune on his banjo.
- Why stand'st thou picking ? Is thy palate sore?
- to keep my hands from picking and stealing
- as high as I could pick my lance
- to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.