Synonyms of the word plectrum


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plectrum

  • n. (music) A small piece of plastic, metal, ivory, etc., for plucking the strings of a guitar, lyre, mandolin,…
  • n. (anatomy, zoology) An anatomical part resembling a plectrum in shape.

device

  • n. Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
  • n. (computing) A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
  • n. A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
  • n. (Ireland) An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb.
  • n. (rhetoric) A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience;…
  • n. (heraldry) A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs…
  • n. (archaic) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
  • n. (law) An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
  • n. (printing) An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
  • n. (obsolete) A spectacle or show.
  • n. (obsolete) Opinion; decision.

pick

  • n. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
  • n. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
  • n. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
  • n. A choice; ability to choose.
  • n. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.
  • n. (basketball) A screen.
  • n. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
  • n. (American football) An interception.
  • n. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
  • n. (baseball) A pickoff.
  • n. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
  • n. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
  • n. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
  • n. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face,…
  • n. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
  • n. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute);…
  • v. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
  • v. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached;…
  • v. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
  • v. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
  • v. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
  • v. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
  • v. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand…
  • v. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
  • v. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
  • v. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
  • v. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
  • v. To steal; to pilfer.
  • v. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
  • v. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.

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