Pickest vs Lickest - What's the difference?
pickest | lickest |
(archaic) (pick)
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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.
(archaic) (lick)
The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue.
The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick.
A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue, or of something which acts like a tongue.
* Gray
A place where animals lick minerals from the ground.
A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream.
(colloquial) A stroke or blow.
(colloquial) A bit.
(music) A short motif.
speed. In this sense it is always qualified by good', or ' fair or a similar adjective.
To stroke with the tongue.
(colloquial) To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight.
(colloquial) To overcome.
(vulgar, slang) To perform cunnilingus.
(colloquial) To do anything partially.
To lap
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI
To lap; to take in with the tongue.
In archaic terms the difference between pickest and lickest
is that pickest is archaic second-person singular of pick while lickest is archaic second-person singular of lick.pickest
English
Verb
(head)pick
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(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.
Derived terms
* a bone to pick * picky * pickpocket * nitpick * pick and choose * pick 'em * nose-picking * pick somebody's brain * pick up * pick up on * pick up where one left * pickin' and grinnin' * ripe for the pickingSee also
* mattock 1000 English basic words ----lickest
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Verb
(head)lick
English
(licking)Noun
(en noun)- The cat gave its fur a lick .
- Give me a lick of ice cream.
- a lick''' of paint; to put on colours with a '''lick of the brush
- a lick of court white wash
- The birds gathered at the clay lick .
- We used to play in the lick .
- Hit that wedge a good lick with the sledgehammer.
- You don't have a lick of sense.
- I didn't do a lick of work today.
- There are some really good blues licks in this solo.
- The bus was travelling at a good lick when it swerved and left the road.
Synonyms
* (bit) see also .Verb
(en verb)- The cat licked its fur.
- My dad can lick your dad.
- I think I can lick this.
- 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.
- A cat licks milk.
- (Shakespeare)