PICKERとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɪkə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -ɪkə(ɹ)

名詞

picker (plural pickers)

1. Agent noun of pick; one who picks.

   The apple picker climbed the tree.

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.

   • 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 13:

     I have observed that there are only two types of eaters in this world - pickers and wolfers.

   1. A worker responsible for picking or retrieving ordered items, etc.
      • 2020, Noreena Hertz, chapter 8, in The Lonely Century, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

        Already at Amazon warehouses, ‘pickers’—the workers who locate purchased items and transport them to the shipping station within the warehouse—are issued a hand-held device that tracks their every move.

      • 2021 August 27, “Fruit picker shortage spreads to Christmas workers”, in BBC News‎, United States, archived from the original on 5 September 2025:

        "Farmers can't get sufficient fruit pickers," he said. "It is the same pool of labour, agency staff [who are] largely eastern European [and] a huge number of them Polish."

2. (computing, graphical user interface) Any user interface control that selects something.

   date picker

   file picker

3. (engineering) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fibre.
4. (weaving) The piece in a loom that strikes the end of the shuttle and impels it through the warp.
5. (military) A priming wire for cleaning the vent, in ordnance.
6. (slang, gold panning) A fragment of gold smaller than a nugget but large enough to be picked up.
7. (historical) One who removes defects from and finishes electrotype plates.
8. (archaic) A pilferer.

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• repick, ripeck