291 results for: pick
Displaying 1 best match. Browse all 291 results below.
Pick
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceThe word Pick may refer to: Josue Guzman
Medical
- Niemann-Pick disease, an inherited condition
- Pick's Disease, a dementing illness
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
In music
- Plectrum, a device for picking or strumming a stringed instrument
- Guitar picks are a Plectrum for a Guitar
- 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
Places
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
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, an Australian radio and television game show
- Call pick-up, a system used in office telephony
- Pick-Up, a slang term that is commonly used in a gaming context
- 52 Pickup, a practical joke disguised as a card game
- 52 Pick-up, a thriller/action film starring Ann-Margret and Roy Scheider
- 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.
- Pick refers to an interception in American football.
See also
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia © 2001-2006 Wikipedia contributors (Disclaimer)
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Last updated on Tuesday February 19, 2008 at 00:02:03 PST (GMT -0800)
View this article at Wikipedia.org - Edit this article at Wikipedia.org - Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation
All 291 results for: pick
View results from: Dictionary | Thesaurus | Encyclopedia | All Reference | the Web
Perform a new search, or try your search for "pick" at:
- Amazon.com - Shop for books, music and more
- Dictionary.com - Search for definitions
- Reference.com - Web Search powered by Google
- Thesaurus.com - Search for synonyms and antonyms