Picking vs Shopping - What's the difference?
picking | shopping |
A gathering to pick fruit.
(usually, pluralized) Items remaining after others have selected the best; scraps, as of food.
* 1899 , , Via Crucis , ch. 9:
(usually, pluralized) Income or other gains, especially if obtained in a unscrupulous or objectionable manner.
* 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 11:
(uncountable) Searching for or buying goods or services.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 (uncountable) Recently bought goods.
(countable, South America) A shopping center.
* 2013 , Karen Keller, Portuguese For Dummies (page 131)
As verbs the difference between picking and shopping
is that picking is while shopping is .As nouns the difference between picking and shopping
is that picking is a gathering to pick fruit while shopping is (uncountable) searching for or buying goods or services.picking
English
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(en noun)- We went to a strawberry picking last June.
- Gilbert wandered through . . .the haunts of ravenous dogs and homeless cats that kept themselves alive on the choice pickings of the city's garbage.
- He liked the pickings which the job brought him much better than the job itself.
Synonyms
* (items remaining after others have selected the best) leftoversDerived terms
* easy pickings * in the picking * nit-picking * slim pickingsshopping
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citation, passage=Mother
- In Brazil, shoppings are more associated with the middle and upper classes.