Pink vs Pick - What's the difference?
pink | pick |
(regional) The common minnow,
(regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar , before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
To prick with a sword.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 642:
To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.
To choose; to cull; to pick out.
Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus , sometimes called carnations.
(dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment (of) some quality.
* Shakespeare
The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.
*1928 , (Siegfried Sassoon), Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man , Penguin 2013, p. 23:
*:I had taken it for granted that there would be people ‘in pink ’, but these enormous confident strangers overwhelmed me with the visible authenticity of their brick-red coats.
* 1986 , Michael J O'Shea, James Joyce and Heraldry , SUNY, page 69:
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 6 points.
(slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare babbitt'', ''bourgeoisie .
Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.
Having conjunctivitis.
(obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
* 1976 : Bhalchandra Pundlik Adarkar, The Future of the Constitution: A Critical Analysis
(informal) Relating to women or girls.
(informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
(of a motor car) To emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
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 pink and pick
is that pink is (slang|derogatory|dated) an operative of the (pinkerton national detective agency) while pick is a tool used for digging; a pickaxe.As a proper noun pink
is .As a verb pick is
to grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.pink
English
(wikipedia pink)Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) pincke.Etymology 3
Probably from Low Dutch or Low German; compare Low German pinken ‘hit, peck’.Verb
(en verb)- ‘Pugh!’ says she, ‘you have pinked a man in a duel, that's all.’
- (Herbert)
Etymology 4
Origin unknown; perhaps from the notion of the petals being pinked (Etymology 3, above).Noun
(en noun)- This garden in particular has a beautiful bed of pinks .
- Your hat, madam, is the very pink of fashion.
- the very pink of courtesy
- My new dress is a wonderful shade of pink .
- it is interesting to note the curious legend that the pink of the hunting field is not due to any optical advantage but to an entirely different reason.
- Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink .
See also
*Adjective
(er)- The word "socialist" has so many connotations that it can cover almost anything from pink liberalism to red-red communism.
- pink-collar; pink job
- the pink economy
- pink dollar; pink pound
Derived terms
* clove pink * fire pink * hunting pink * in the pink * moss pink * parlor pink, parlour pink * pink bits * pink-collar * pink dollar * pink elephants * pink gin * pinkification * pink lady * pink pound * pink salmon * pink slip * pink snapper * pinkie * pinking shears * pinko * pink of health * pinky * salmon pink * sea pink * shell pink * shocking pink * strike me pink * swamp pink * tickle pink * wild pinkEtymology 5
OnomatopoeicVerb
(en verb)Etymology 6
(etyl) pinken.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.