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# picker

noun (a picker, pickers)

«picker» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person who picks fruit, vegetables, flowers or cotton, often as a job. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#m1)
2. A person or tool that picks or chooses something: a litter picker, a nose picker (rude, joking). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#m2)
3. (work) A person in a warehouse who collects items for orders. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#m3)

### In the lessons

In geography and social studies, fruit pickers do seasonal farm work (strawberry picking in the UK, fruit picking in Australia and New Zealand for backpackers). At school, a «litter picker» is a grabbing tool for collecting rubbish safely. In history, cotton pickers in the US South were often enslaved people. Phrases: «fruit picker», «litter picker», «cotton picker», «grape picker».

### Examples

- Strawberry pickers start work very early in summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x1)
- We used litter pickers to clean the playground. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x2)
- My cousin worked as a fruit picker in Queensland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x3)
- The machine is a cotton picker that harvests whole fields. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x4)
- Grape pickers fill baskets in the vineyard. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x5)
- «Stop it, you nose picker!» laughed my little brother. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x6)
- Warehouse pickers collect the things people order online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x7)
- Every bush was weighted to the ground with the largest, dark red, ripe raspberries, such a wealth of berries as two little berry pickers had never found before! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/#x8)

### Note

Countable: a picker, pickers. From the verb «pick» + -er (a person or tool that does it). Related: «picky» (fussy about food). «Nose picker» is a cheeky, mildly rude joke.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «picker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picker/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«picker» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/picker.html) on Mova free.