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- [hand-pik]
- /ˈhændˈpɪk/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [hand-pik]
- /ˈhændˈpɪk/
Definitions of handpick word
- verb with object handpick to pick by hand. 1
- verb with object handpick to select personally and with care: The boss handpicked his assistants. 1
- noun handpick Select carefully with a particular purpose in mind. 1
- transitive verb handpick select personally 1
- transitive verb handpick If someone is handpicked, they are very carefully chosen by someone in authority for a particular purpose or a particular job. 0
- verb transitive handpick to pick (fruit or vegetables) by hand 0
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Origin of handpick
First appearance:
before 1825 One of the 37% newest English words
First recorded in 1825-35; hand + pick1
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Parts of speech for Handpick
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
handpick popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 61% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 64% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
handpick usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for handpick
verb handpick
- prefer — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
- name — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- cull — If items or ideas are culled from a particular source or number of sources, they are taken and gathered together.
- slot — a long thin, narrow strip of wood, metal, etc., used as a support for a bed, as one of the horizontal laths of a Venetian blind, etc.
Antonyms for handpick
verb handpick
- reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
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