Pick-your-own

Definition

pick 1 /pÇk/ v ၁။ ေရြးသည္။ She picked the largest cake on the plate. ❍ He's been picked to play for the first team. ❍ He picked his words carefully (eg tried to express himself so as not to annoy sb). ❍ CHOOSE ၂။ ခူးသည္။ flowers freshly picked from the garden ❍ pick plums/strawberries/broad beans ❍ go black berry picking ❍ Please can you pick me a lettuce? ၃။ (က) ~ sth ( from/off sth ) လက္ျဖင့္ေကာက္၍ ဖယ္ရွားသည္ (သို႔) ေကာက္သည္၊ ခူးသည္။ pick a hair from one's collar ❍ pick the nuts off the top of the cake. (ခ) ကိုက္၍၊ ထိုး၍၊ ကေလာ္၍ ဖယ္သည္၊ ရွင္း သည္။ The dogs picked the bones clean (ie removed all the meat from the bones). ❍ pick one's teeth (ie use a small pointed piece of wood,etc to remove tiny pieces of food from one's teeth). ❍ Stop picking your nose! ႏွပ္ မကေလာ္ႏွင့္။ ၄။ ေသာ့အိမ္ကိုသံခြၽန္၊ သံနန္းႀကိဳးေကာက္တို႔ျဖင့္ ထိုးေကာ္ဖြင့္သည္။ The burglars had picked the lock on the back door. n [ sing ] ၁။ ႀကိဳက္ရာ။ Which one would you like? Take your pick (ie choose whichever you like). ❍ The winner has first pick of the prizes. ၂။ the ~ of sth လက္ေရြးစင္။ ေခါင္။ We're reviewing the pick of this month's new books. ❍ ( infml ) I think we got the pick of the bunch (ie the best of a number of things or people). ❏ pick and choose [ IDM ] စံေရြးသည္။ You have to take any job you can get—you can't pick and choose. ❏ pick at sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ ဆိတ္ေပါက္စားသည္။ တို႔ကာ ပင့္ကာစားသည္။ တို႔႐ံုတို႔သည္။ Sparrows picked at the crumbs. ❍ He never seems hungry and just picks at his food. ၂။ ဆိတ္ကာဆိတ္ကာ ဆြဲသည္။ He picked at the knots uselessly with cold fingers. ❏ pick sb's brains [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ကိစၥတစ္ရပ္၌) အလြန္ ကြၽမ္းသူအျဖစ္ အႀကံဉာဏ္ေတာင္းသည္။ ဆရာတင္သည္။ Can I pick your brains about the best hi-fi system to buy? ❏ picker n (esp in compounds) … ခူးသူ။ apple pickers. ❏ pick a fight/quarrel (with sb) [ IDM ] ရန္စသည္။ ❏ pick holes in sth [ IDM ] အျပစ္ရွာသည္။ It was easy to pick holes in his argument. ❏ pick-me-up /'pÇkmiʌp/ n ( infml ) (လန္းဆန္း ၾကည္လင္ လာေစရန္ေသာက္ေသာ) ေဆး (သို႔) အရက္ တစ္ခြက္။ ❏ pick sb off [ PHRV ] ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာေရြးခ်ိန္ၿပီး ပစ္သည္။ A sniper hidden on a roof picked off three of the soldiers on patrol. ❏ pick on sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ မဲသည္။ ရမယ္ရွာသည္။ She felt that her teachers were picking on her. ၂။ သူမ်ား မလုပ္ခ်င္တာကိုမွ ေရြးခိုင္းသည္။ I know they need someone to go to the meeting, but why did they have to pick on me! ❏ pick sb/sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေရြးထုတ္သည္။ She was picked out from thousands of applicants for the job. ❍ He picked out the ripest peach. ၂။ ခြဲထုတ္သည္။ ထင္းထင္းႀကီးေပၚသည္။ pick out sb/sb's face in a crowd ❍ The window frames are picked out in blue against the white walls. ❏ pick sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ေတးသြားကို) စမ္းတီးသည္။ ၂။ ေလ့လာဆန္းစစ္ၿပီး ေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ pick out recurring themes in an author's work. ❏ pick sth over [ PHRV ] ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ေရြးယူသည္၊ ေရြးထုတ္သည္။ Pick over the lentils in case there are any stones amongst them. ❏ pick sb's pocket [ IDM ] ခါးပိုက္ႏိႈက္သည္။ ❏ pick up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ပိုေကာင္းလာသည္။ Trade always picks up in the spring. ❍ We're waiting until the weather picks up a bit. See also PICK-UP ၄ ၂။ ( infml ) အစက၊ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ေနရာက ျပန္ေကာက္သည္။ Let's pick up where we left off (ie finished) yesterday. ❏ pick-up n ၁။ (also pick-up truck ) (အမိုးမဲ့) ကုန္တင္ကား ငယ္။ ပစ္ကပ္။ ၂။ ( infml derog ) ႀကံဳခိုက္ဆံုခိုက္ ေပ်ာ္ပါးခဲ့သူ။ casual pick-ups. ၃။ လိုက္လံေကာက္ျခင္း။ the security van's daily pick-up from the bank. ၄။ ~ (in sth) ( infml ) ဦးေမာ့လာျခင္း။ the seasonal pick-up in house prices. ❏ pick oneself up [ PHRV ] လဲက်ရာမွ ျပန္ထသည္။ ဖုတ္ဖက္ခါထသည္။ He picked himself up and brushed himself down. ❏ pick sb up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ကားျဖင့္ဝင္ေခၚသည္။ I'll pick you up at 7 o'clock. ၂။ ကားရပ္ေပးၿပီး ေခၚတင္သည္။ He picked up a hitchhiker. ၃။ ပင္လယ္ျပင္မွဆယ္တင္သည္။ The lifeboat picked up all the survivors. ၄။ ( infml often derog ) ခရီးသြားဟန္လႊဲ ေပ်ာ္ပါးရန္ဆြယ္သည္။ He picked up the girl at a college disco. ❍ She's living with some man she picked up on the beach. See also PICK-UP ၂ ၅။ ( infml ) (ရဲက) ဖမ္းသည္၊ ဆြဲသည္။ The police picked him up as he was trying to leave the country. ၆။ စကားအက်ေကာက္၍ ျပန္ေထာက္သည္၊ ေဝဖန္သည္။ Stop picking me up all the time! ❏ pick sb/sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေကာက္သည္။ ေကာက္ကိုင္ သည္။ ေကာက္(ခ်ီ)သည္။ He bent down and picked up the book from the floor. ❍ She picked up the telephone and dialled his number. ❍ He picked the child up in his arms and held him tight. ၂။ (အီလက္ထရြန္နစ္ကိရိယာျဖင့္) ဖမ္းမိသည္။ They picked up the yacht on their radar screen. ❍ I'm surprised you can pick up Capital Radio this far out of London. ❏ pick sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ (တိုင္းျခားဘာသာစကား တစ္ခုခုႏွင့္) ထိေတြ႕ကြၽမ္းဝင္မိသည္။ (အေလ့စသည္) ကူးစက္ သည္။ pick up bad habits ❍ She soon picked up French when she went to live in Paris. ၂။ ၾကားမိသည္။ သိသည္။ ရသည္။ See if you can pick up anything about their future plans. ❍ Where on earth did you pick up that idea? ❍ ၃။ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သိရိွသည္။ Scientists can now pick up early signs of the disease. ၄။ ဝင္ယူသည္။ I've got to pick up my coat from the cleaners. See also PICK-UP ၃ ၅။ (အေခ်ာင္) ရလာသည္။ pick up a bargain ❍ She picked up a valuable first edition at a book sale. ၆။ ဝယ္သည္။ ရသည္။ I'll pick something up (ie buy sth) for dinner on my way home. ❍ We picked up a little money doing odd jobs. ❍ I've picked up a terrible cold from somewhere. ၇။ (ေျခရာ၊ လမ္းေၾကာင္း) ေကာက္သည္။ (အနံ႔) ခံသည္။ pick up a trail/a scent ❍ We'll pick up the motorway near Coventry. ၈။ ျပန္ေကာက္သည္။ Can I just pick up the point you made earlier? ❏ pick up the bill/tab [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒကာခံသည္။ က်သမွ်ထုတ္ေပးသည္။ Taxpayers will have to pick up the bill. ❏ pick up the pieces/threads [ IDM ] ဘဝကို ျပန္လည္ အဖတ္ဆယ္သည္။ Their lives were shattered by the tragedy and they are still trying to pick up the pieces. ❏ pick up speed [ IDM ] ပိုျမန္လာသည္။ အရိွန္ျမင့္ လာသည္။ The train began to pick up speed. ❏ pick one's way [ IDM ] ဂ႐ုတစိုက္သြားသည္။ She picked her way delicately along muddy path. ❏ pick-your-own adj ( abbr PYO ) ႀကိဳက္ရာခူးယူစနစ္ ျဖင့္ ေရာင္းေသာ။ pick-your-own strawberries ❍ a pick-your-own farm. pick 2 /pÇk/ (also pickaxe, US pickax ) n ေပါက္ခြၽန္း။ wield a pickaxe. ❍ AXE See also ICE-PICK, TOOTH-PICK

Examples

1. Out of all the girls he could have gone out with
2. he picked me.
3. [pick someone/something for something] : The following season he was picked for the national squad.
4. [pick someone to do something] : My friends picked me to ask the teacher.
5. He will pick the team for Saturday’s match tomorrow.
6. I haven’t picked my team yet for the new project.
7. He was on his knees picking crumbs off the carpet.
8. They spent the summer picking strawberries.
9. Freshly picked flowers
10. She sits and picks the loose skin on her feet.