Pick

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Contents 1 Tools and weapons 2 Medical 3 Mathematics and computers 4 In music 5 Places 6 People 7 Miscellaneous 8 See also

Pick may refer to:

[edit] Tools and weapons

• Pickaxe, a tool used for manual labour
• Lock pick, a tool used for lock picking.
• Lock picking, the art of unlocking a lock without its intended key
• Warded pick, a device for opening warded locks
• Toothpick, a piece of wood or other substance to remove food from the teeth after a meal
• Horseman's pick, a weapon used by cavalry units during the middle ages in Europe
• [Mazhar's pick], a word used by pakistani army for brave soldiers .

[edit] Medical

• Niemann-Pick disease, an inherited condition
• Pick's Disease, a dementing illness

[edit] Mathematics and computers

• Pick's theorem in geometry
• Pick operating system, a computer operating system built around a multidimensional, variable data length database, often called "the Pick system" or simply "Pick"
• Pick matrix, a specific type of matrix (mathematics)
• Schwarz-Ahlfors-Pick theorem, a mathematics theorem

[edit] In music

• Plectrum, a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument; for example, guitar pick
• Fingerpicking, a technique for playing the guitar using the fingertips and/or fingernails
• Sweep-picking, a guitar technique that involves playing one note per string

[edit] Places

• Pick City, North Dakota

[edit] People

• Albert Pick, German numismatist
• Georg Alexander Pick, Austrian mathematician
• Gustav Pick, Austrian composer
• Lewis A. Pick, United States Army Chief of Engineers
• Ludwig Pick, see Niemann-Pick disease
• Lupu Pick, German actor
• Thomas Pickering Pick, surgeon and author
• Sherwood Picking, United States Navy submarine commander

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Cherry picking, literally meaning harvesting cherries, used metaphorically to accuse someone of pointing at individual cases which seem to confirm his or her position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases that may contradict it
• Nose-picking, the act of extracting mucus or foreign bodies from the nose with a finger
• Pick and roll, an offensive play in basketball
• U-Pick Live, a show aired on Nickelodeon between 2002 and 2005
• Pick A Box, a radio program
• Call pick-up, a system used in office telephony
• Pick-Up, a slang term that is commonly used in a gaming context
• 52 Pick-up, a practical joke disguised as a card game
• Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, named after Lewis A. Pick
• Anglers' or fishermen's slang for the Pickhandle barracuda
• Pickelhaube is a type of helmet.

[edit] See also

• pickle
• picket