picker

One who selects

A picker is someone or something that picks.

Fruit pickers harvest crops by hand.

A picker in a warehouse selects items for orders.

Guitar pickers play by plucking strings.

The word often appears in combinations: cherry picker, cotton picker, nit-picker.

A picker tool extracts or separates things: ice picker, lock picker.

harvest

harvester

Crop-collecting machine

  • reaperOne who gathers crops
  • cropCultivated agricultural plants
  • orchardFruit tree plantation

vineyard · gathering · agriculture · seasonal · farmhand · migrant · bushel · basket · berry · fruit

instrument

plectrum

String-plucking implement

guitar · banjo · mandolin · ukulele · strumming · plucking · fretboard · pickguard · luthier · acoustic

selector

chooser

One who selects

choice · discernment · judgment · curated · handpicked · nitpicker · discriminating · deliberate · evaluation · assessment

thief

pickpocket

Thief who steals carried items

  • cutpurseHistorical term for thief
  • dipBrief immersion or condiment
  • liftingRaising something heavy

crowded · wallet · purse · sleight · nimble · stealth · distraction · accomplice · mark · tourist

tool

toothpick

Pointed stick for teeth

probe · pointed · metal · precision · extraction

Categories
Opposites
harvest cycle role

pickerplanter

Container for greenery

sower · seeder · grower · cultivator · farmer

selection action

pickerrejecter

One who declines

leaver · ignorer · passer · avoider · abstainer

guitar technique

pickerstrummer

One who plays strings

Phrases
Family

pick, picking, picked, picket, pickers, unpicked, pickaxe, pickable, prepicked

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G