pick-v; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: select carefully from a group

Commentary:
NOTE: be careful not to include the VPC PICK_OUT in this sense (even though it has a similar meaning)--for all VPCs, choose the last sense

Examples:
She finally picked her successor.
Sports Illustrated ruffled feathers when they picked the Panthers to win the Super Bowl.
Hovind insisted that he pick the judges himself without any confirmation of their neutrality.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Choosing
PropBank: pick.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1

Sense Number 2: look for and gather/pluck

Examples:
Shuksan and Rainier strawberries are picked fresh daily and are of commercial quality.
If you picked the flowers from the parking lot at work you lose points.
I picked the vegetables from the vine myself and brought them to you!

Mappings:
VerbNet: get-13.5.1
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: pick.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: lightly pluck or hit at

Commentary:
NOTE: can be used metaphorically, includes inciting an argument. Includes: PICK ON

Examples:
After slow-cooking, you can easily pick the meat off the bone.
Remove the leg quarters from the pan and pick the bones clean.
Presley's Vince Everett learns how to pick a guitar while doing time in Jailhouse Rock.
She just picked her sandwich, but never really ate anything.
Quit picking on me!
I've got a bone to pick with you.
If you're going to pick a fight with a technology cult, for Pete's
sake, don't go after the Linux nerds.

Mappings:
VerbNet: chew-39.2-1
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: pick.02,pick.07
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12

Sense Number 4: steal

Commentary:
NOTE: used in the idiomatic expression "pick pockets"

Examples:
How now, Dame Partlet, have you inquired yet who picked my pocket?

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7

Sense Number 5: strike hard

Examples:
The next day we chopped and picked the ice out and built fires inside.
The skater picked the ice with her skate.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10

Sense Number 6: verb-particle and multi-word-expressions

Commentary: Includes: PICK APART PICK AT PICK OFF PICK OUT PICK OVER PICK UP

Examples:

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 8
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
pick_up 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
pick_over 1
pick_apart 1
pick_off 1, 2
pick_out 1, 2
pick_at 1, 2, 3