All hand-picking synonyms

verb hand-picking

• 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.
• tap — Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• winnow — to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., especially by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities.
• mark — Marcus Alonzo ("Mark") 1837–1904, U.S. merchant and politician: senator 1897–1904.
• tag — a children's game in which one player chases the others in an effort to touch one of them, who then takes the role of pursuer.
• finger — any of the terminal members of the hand, especially one other than the thumb.
• tab — ht
• hand-pick — to pick by hand.
• pick and choose — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• pick out — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• settle on — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
• single out — only one in number; one only; unique; sole: a single example.
• sort out — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
• take it or leave it — If you say to someone 'take it or leave it', you are telling them that they can accept something or not accept it, but that you are not prepared to discuss any other alternatives.