Picking
Encyclopedia
Picking can mean:
- Various styles of guitar playing:
- Fingerpicking
- FlatpickingFlatpickingFlatpicking is a technique for playing a guitar using a guitar pick held between two or three fingers to strike the strings...
- Hybrid pickingHybrid pickingHybrid picking is a guitar-playing technique that involves picking with a pick and one or more fingers alternately or simultaneously. Hybrid picking allows guitar players who use a pick to perform music which would normally require fingerstyle playing. It also facilitates wide string leaps Hybrid...
- Pattern picking
- Alternate-picking
- Sweep-pickingSweep-pickingSweep picking is a guitar playing technique in which a 'sweeping' motion of the pick is combined with a matching fret hand technique in order to produce a specific series of notes which are fast and fluid in sound. Despite being commonly known as sweep picking, both hands essentially perform an...
- Tremolo pickingTremolo pickingTremolo picking, also known as alternate picking or double picking, describes the musical technique of picking on a guitar or other string instrument in which a single note is played repeatedly in quick succession. It can be achieved either with the fingers or with a pick...
- A gathering to pick fruitFruitIn broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state,...
or various products. - Continental knitting, a style of knitting also known as picking
- Lock pickingLock pickingLock picking is the art of unlocking a lock by analyzing and manipulating the components of the lock device, without the original key. Although lock picking can be associated with criminal intent, it is an essential skill for a locksmith...
, the art of unlocking a lock without the original key - Nose-pickingNose-pickingNose-picking is the act of extracting dried nasal mucus or foreign bodies from the nose with a finger. Despite being a very common habit, it is a mildly taboo activity in most cultures, and the observation of the activity in another person may provoke mixed feelings of disgust and amusement...
, the act of extracting mucus and/or foreign bodies from the nose - Skin Picking, or DermatillomaniaDermatillomaniaDermatillomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by the repeated urge to pick at one's own skin, often to the extent that damage is caused...
- In computer graphicsComputer graphicsComputer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....
, the task of determining which screen-rendered object a user has clicked on.