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Licked vs Picked - What's the difference?

licked | picked |

As verbs the difference between licked and picked

is that licked is past tense of lick while picked is past tense of pick.

As an adjective picked is

pointed; sharp.

licked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lick)

  • lick

    English

    (licking)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
  • The cat gave its fur a lick .
  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
  • Give me a lick of ice cream.
  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
  • a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
  • * Gray
  • a lick of court white wash
  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
  • The birds gathered at the clay lick .
  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
  • We used to play in the lick .
  • (colloquial) A stroke or blow.
  • Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
  • (colloquial) A bit.
  • You don't have a lick of sense.
    I didn't do a lick of work today.
  • (music) A short motif.
  • There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
  • speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
  • The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.

    Synonyms

    * (bit) see also .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To stroke with the tongue.
  • The cat licked its fur.
  • (colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
  • My dad can lick your dad.
  • (colloquial) To overcome.
  • I think I can lick this.
  • (vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
  • (colloquial) To do anything partially.
  • To lap
  • * 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
  • Now, in this decadent age the art of fire-making had been altogether forgotten on the earth. The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue.
  • A cat licks milk.
    (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * ass-licker * cow lick * good lick * lick one's chops * lick one's wounds * lick out * lickspittle * lick up * licked * lickety split * outlick

    picked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pick)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pointed; sharp
  • * Chapman
  • Picked and polished.
  • * Mortimer
  • Let the stake be made picked at the top.
  • (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
  • the picked dogfish
  • (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 13:
  • He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  • * 1596 , , I. i. 193:
  • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
    (Webster 1913)