picker

See also: Picker

English

Etymology

From Middle English pikere, pykare, equivalent to pick +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)

Noun

picker (plural pickers)

1. agent noun of pick; one who picks.

   The apple picker climbed the tree.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

   • 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:

     I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers.

   1. A worker in a warehouse, responsible for retrieving ordered items.
      • 2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 8, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

        Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.

2. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.

   date picker

   file picker

3. (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
4. (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
5. (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
7. (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
8. (archaic) A pilferer.

Hyponyms

• bone-picker
• cherry picker
• cotton picker
• gooseberry-picker
• hop picker
• nit-picker
• nose-picker
• picker-up
• picker-upper
• picker-upperer
• sally-picker
• stock-picker
• stock picker
• waste picker
• wig-picker
• winkle-picker
• winkle picker
• wool picker

 

Translations

one who picks

• Bulgarian: берач m (berač)
• Finnish: poimija (fi)
• French: cueilleur (fr) m, glaneur (fr) m, glaneuse (fr) f
• Macedonian: бе́рач m (bérač)
• Norman: tchilieux m (of fruit)
• Ukrainian: збира́ч m (zbyráč)

computing: any user interface control that selects something

• Finnish: valitsin (fi)
• French: sélecteur (fr) m
• Portuguese: seletor m

Anagrams

• repick, ripeck

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English picker.

Noun

picker n (plural pickere)

1. picker (machine)

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	picker	pickerul		pickere	pickerele
genitive-dative	picker	pickerului		pickere	pickerelor
vocative	pickerule			pickerelor