| beak |
A beak is the hard, outer part of a bird's mouth. A beak sticks out from the bird's face. Birds pick up food with their beaks. |
| bulldozer |
A bulldozer is a heavy vehicle with something like a big scoop attached to it that can pick up and move heavy things like dirt and rocks. |
| choice |
When you make a choice, you pick something. [4 definitions] |
| choose |
to pick one or more from a group. [1/2 definitions] |
| dairy case |
A dairy case is a large container in a grocery store. It is kept cold, and it is used to hold and display things like milk, cheese, butter, cream, and yogurt. Customers can pick out things they want from the dairy case. |
| draw |
to pick or be dealt. [1/8 definitions] |
| elephant |
an enormous mammal with a very long nose called a trunk. Elephants have curved tusks, huge, floppy ears, and four long, thick legs. Elephants use their trunks to pick up food, drink water, or lift things. They use their tusks to dig roots. Elephants travel in herds, eating tons of plants every day. African elephants are the largest mammals that live on land. Indian elephants are smaller and can be trained to work with people. |
| finger |
A finger is one of the five parts of your hand that stick out at the end. You use your fingers to pick up things. [1/2 definitions] |
| fork |
A fork is a tool we use to pick up or hold things. Most often we use it when we eat to pick up food. A fork has sharp points at one end and a handle on the other. [1/3 definitions] |
| harvest |
A harvest is the gathering of crops that are ready to pick. [3/5 definitions] |
| litter |
When people litter a place, they drop things on the ground there and don't pick them up. They go away and leave them there. [1/5 definitions] |
| mailbox |
A mailbox is a container used for holding mail. It is where people can pick up the mail that has been delivered to them. Sometimes a mailbox is outside someone's house or apartment building sitting on top of a post. In some apartment buildings, people's mailboxes are sections of a larger container built into a wall. In many places, people can use their mailboxes to send things to other people, but in some places, like large cities, the boxes are only used for deliveries. [1/2 definitions] |
| peck2 |
to strike, or pick up quickly with the beak. [1/5 definitions] |
| pick1 |
When you pick something, you decide to take one particular thing out of a group of things. Picking something is the same as choosing something. [7/9 definitions] |
| pickax |
a pick that has one pointed end and a blade that is shaped liked a chisel on the other end. |
| pick out |
When you pick out something, you decide that it is the one you want and you take it. If you pick out a present for someone, you look at some different things and choose the one you think is best. |
| pick up |
When you pick up something, or pick something up, you take it into your hand or hands. If you dropped some money on the ground, you would probably pick it up! [3/5 definitions] |
| pluck |
to grab with the fingers and pull off; pick. [1/6 definitions] |
| principal's office |
the office of the head of a school, where decisions concerning the school are made and where discipline is sometimes carried out or decided on. The principal's office is also a place where students can wait during school hours for someone to pick them up if they need to go home for some reason. |
| recycling bin |
A recycling bin is a container used for holding things that you don't need anymore but can be used again in some way. People often put things like glass bottles, aluminum cans, and newspapers in recycling bins. These things can be "recycled," which means they can be used again or made into new products. In many cities, a truck comes to pick up the things in the recycling bins and then brings them to a place where the process of recycling them can begin. |
| row2 |
When you row, you make a boat move forward in water using something called oars. Oars are long poles that are wide and flat at the ends. With the oars in the water, you push the water back toward the end of the boat. Then you pick the oars up out of the water and do it again. [1/2 definitions] |