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Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
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Meaning of "cherry-pick" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHERRY-PICK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHERRY-PICK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cherry-Pick is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb cherry-pick in English.

WHAT DOES CHERRY-PICK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cherry picking

"Cherry picking" could refer to: ▪ Cherry picking ▪ Cherry picking ▪ Cherry-picking tax avoidance ▪ Harvesting fruit from cherry trees ▪ Cherry-picking, moving only some revisions from one branch to another in revision control...

Definition of cherry-pick in the English dictionary

The definition of cherry-pick in the dictionary is to choose or take the best or most profitable of, esp for one's own benefit or gain.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CHERRY-PICK

PRESENT

Present
I cherry-pick
you cherry-pick
he/she/it cherry-picks
we cherry-pick
you cherry-pick
they cherry-pick
Present continuous
I am cherry-picking
you are cherry-picking
he/she/it is cherry-picking
we are cherry-picking
you are cherry-picking
they are cherry-picking
Present perfect
I have cherry-picked
you have cherry-picked
he/she/it has cherry-picked
we have cherry-picked
you have cherry-picked
they have cherry-picked
Present perfect continuous
I have been cherry-picking
you have been cherry-picking
he/she/it has been cherry-picking
we have been cherry-picking
you have been cherry-picking
they have been cherry-picking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I cherry-picked
you cherry-picked
he/she/it cherry-picked
we cherry-picked
you cherry-picked
they cherry-picked
Past continuous
I was cherry-picking
you were cherry-picking
he/she/it was cherry-picking
we were cherry-picking
you were cherry-picking
they were cherry-picking
Past perfect
I had cherry-picked
you had cherry-picked
he/she/it had cherry-picked
we had cherry-picked
you had cherry-picked
they had cherry-picked
Past perfect continuous
I had been cherry-picking
you had been cherry-picking
he/she/it had been cherry-picking
we had been cherry-picking
you had been cherry-picking
they had been cherry-picking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will cherry-pick
you will cherry-pick
he/she/it will cherry-pick
we will cherry-pick
you will cherry-pick
they will cherry-pick
Future continuous
I will be cherry-picking
you will be cherry-picking
he/she/it will be cherry-picking
we will be cherry-picking
you will be cherry-picking
they will be cherry-picking
Future perfect
I will have cherry-picked
you will have cherry-picked
he/she/it will have cherry-picked
we will have cherry-picked
you will have cherry-picked
they will have cherry-picked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been cherry-picking
you will have been cherry-picking
he/she/it will have been cherry-picking
we will have been cherry-picking
you will have been cherry-picking
they will have been cherry-picking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would cherry-pick
you would cherry-pick
he/she/it would cherry-pick
we would cherry-pick
you would cherry-pick
they would cherry-pick
Conditional continuous
I would be cherry-picking
you would be cherry-picking
he/she/it would be cherry-picking
we would be cherry-picking
you would be cherry-picking
they would be cherry-picking
Conditional perfect
I would have cherry-pick
you would have cherry-pick
he/she/it would have cherry-pick
we would have cherry-pick
you would have cherry-pick
they would have cherry-pick
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been cherry-picking
you would have been cherry-picking
he/she/it would have been cherry-picking
we would have been cherry-picking
you would have been cherry-picking
they would have been cherry-picking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you cherry-pick
we let´s cherry-pick
you cherry-pick
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to cherry-pick
Past participle
cherry-picked
Present Participle
cherry-picking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHERRY-PICK

cherries
cherry
cherry blossom
cherry bomb
cherry brandy
cherry laurel
cherry orchard
cherry picker
cherry plum
cherry tomato
cherry-like
cherry-pie
cherry-red
cherrystone
chersonese
Chersonesus Aurea
chert
Chertsey
cherty
cherub

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHERRY-PICK

earpick
fingerpick
flatpick
hand-pick
have a bone to pick
ice pick
nit-pick
nutpick
pick
spick
toothpick
unpick

Synonyms and antonyms of cherry-pick in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cherry-pick» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHERRY-PICK

Find out the translation of cherry-pick to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cherry-pick from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cherry-pick» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

挑捡最好的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

seleccionar cuidadosamente
570 millions of speakers

English

cherry-pick
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

चेरी लेने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الكرز بيك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вишневого выбор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escolher a dedo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চেরি-বাছুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trier sur le volet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ceri-pilih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Rosinen herauspicken aus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

慎重に選び取る
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선별하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cherry-pick
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

anh đào -pick
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

செர்ரி தேர்வைச்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चेरी-पिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kiraz-çekme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accaparrarsi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cherry -pick
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вишневого вибір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cherry- pick-
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cherry -pick
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kersie -pluk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

plocka russinen ur kakan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cherry- pick
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cherry-pick

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHERRY-PICK»

The term «cherry-pick» is regularly used and occupies the 105.482 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHERRY-PICK» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cherry-pick» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cherry-pick» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cherry-pick

EXAMPLES

3 QUOTES WITH «CHERRY-PICK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cherry-pick.
1
Mike Rowe
People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.
2
Thomas Sowell
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
3
Clive Thompson
Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHERRY-PICK»

Discover the use of cherry-pick in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cherry-pick and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Version Control with Git: Powerful tools and techniques for ...
The command git cherry-pick commit applies the changes introduced by the named commit on the current branch. It will introduce a new, distinct commit. Strictly speaking, using git cherry-pick doesn't alter the existing history within a repository ...
Jon Loeliger, Matthew McCullough, 2012
2
Pro Git
Other maintainers prefer to rebase or cherry-pick contributed work on top of their i ]opan branch, rather than merging it in, to keep a mostly linear history. When you have work in a topic branch and have determined that you want to integrate it, ...
Scott Chacon, 2009
3
Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
You can achieve similar results using the $ git cherry-pick command 1. Enter the detached HEAD state: $ git checkout `git rev-parse master` Reapply the revision f1 in HEAD with the $ git cherry-pick feature~2 Reapply the revision f2 in HEAD ...
Wlodzimierz Gajda, 2013
4
2014 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and ...
Sorters of the logistics distribution center responsibility mainly reflect in: the sorting equipment normal operation; According to the reader and electronic display screen display information, cherry-pick conveyor belt package, and will be ...
S. K. Chen, Altair Engineering Inc., California, USA, Y. H. Chang, Chihlee Institute of Technology, Taiwan, 2014
5
Git Pocket Guide
git cherry-pick allows you to apply the changeset of a given commit as a new commit on the current branch, preserving the original author information and commit message. As a very general rule, it's best to avoid this in favor of factoring your ...
Richard E. Silverman, 2013
6
The Owner-Builder Book: Construction Bargain Strategies
Or, we could getjust basic lumber from that supplier and then cherry pick other suppliers, auction sites, internet sites, sales, etc. for the rest of the material. The former would be easy... almost complete one-stop shopping... and get it at builder  ...
Mark A. Smith
7
Management of Chemical and Biological Samples for Screening ...
The final step in creating a robust cherry-pick processing workflow was to create the tools in the database to support the steps of the workflow. These tools were designed to read the template file and then create the required plate-maps and ...
Mark Wigglesworth, Terry Wood, 2012
8
Secrets of Power Negotiating: 15th Anniversary Edition
You could also Cherry Pick on the terms of a proposal. Let's say that you're buying a piece of land in the country, and the seller is offering it for $100,000 with 20 percent down and the balance due over 10 years with 10 percent interest added.
Roger Dawson, 2012
9
Top 100 Power Verbs: The Most Powerful Verbs and Phrases You ...
Cherry-pick. (1) choose the best thing; choose something very carefully; hand pick; opt; elect; single out Word Used in Sentence(s) (1) “I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God.
Michael Lawrence Faulkner, Michelle Faulkner-Lunsford, 2013
10
How to Be Brilliant at Public Speaking: Any audience. Any ...
First, Matthew has designed and built more than 50 [cherry-pick] websites and second, that our company [cherry-pick] provides the best value you'll find.' The second cherry-pick shows how you can use inferred precision in your gestures to  ...
Sarah Lloyd-Hughes, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHERRY-PICK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cherry-pick is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Evangelicals cherry-pick Bible
I find it very frustrating debating with evangelical Christians because they claim that the Bible is infallible and then cherry-pick the parts that suit ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jul 15»
2
Which 'Walking Dead' Storylines Will Pop Up In Season 6?
... instead, the writers room has opted to cherry-pick certain stories and character moments from the comics, and remixed them for the shows in ... «MTV.com, Jul 15»
3
Islamic fanatics are just being true to their faith
... its early peaceful comments and replaces them with the sentiments above - something Muslims never mention when they cherry-pick the nice ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
4
Shadow play: On Feist coming back from the dead
"But Unity has always made sure everything keeps working, so we weren't left behind and could cherry-pick the features that we could use. «Gamasutra, Jul 15»
5
Column: Gay marriage? Nope, it's just plain marriage
As a business owner you have the right to refuse service to anyone. But why cherry-pick who you discriminate against? This is where religion ... «LaSalle News Tribune, Jul 15»
6
Media scares about 'sharia marriages' miss the point
... the area of maintenance and property. As for Muslims that want to get married, they should not cherry-pick parts of marriage that benefit them. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
7
The End of the Diamond Grading Game?
The retailers like the situation because they can cherry-pick reports according to what they are selling and who they want to sell to. «JCK, Jul 15»
8
'Terminator' is a broken-down machine
Genisys is essentially an attempt to cherry-pick elements from every Terminator movie so far and make a big bowl of Terminator stew, rewriting ... «Delco News Network, Jul 15»
9
Pastor Douglas Wilson: Sodomy is worse than slavery
... and of course we all know how modern Christians cherry-pick which .... spend way too much time trying to cherry-pick the Old Testament. «AMERICAblog, Jul 15»
10
GBA Lawsuit Fights Presidential Cherry-Picking
For some capricious reasons best known to himself, as the GBA lawsuit clearly charges, President Mahama decided to cherry-pick by deciding ... «GhanaWeb, Jul 15»

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