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Picked vs Picker - What's the difference?

picked | picker |

As a verb picked

is (pick).

As an adjective picked

is (obsolete) pointed; sharp.

As a noun picker is

agent noun of pick; one who picks.

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)

    picker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Agent noun of pick; one who picks.
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  • (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.
  • (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
  • (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
  • (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
  • (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
  • Derived terms

    * cherry picker