name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
picket
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɪkɪt/
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CMU ARPABET: P IH1 K IH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A stake driven into the ground.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- a picket fence
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noun
Meaning 3
A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 6
A sentry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, sometimes, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
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noun
Meaning 8
The card game piquet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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verb
Meaning 9
To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
Meaning 10
To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 11
To tether to, or as if to, a picket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- to picket a horse
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verb
Meaning 12
To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 13
To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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noun
Meaning 14
a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: piquet
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: torture, torturing
noun
Meaning 15
a wooden strip forming part of a fence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pale
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: strip
noun
Meaning 16
a vehicle performing sentinel duty
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: military vehicle
Narrower terms: picket boat, picket ship
noun
Meaning 17
a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: detachment
noun
Meaning 18
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: watchman, watcher, security guard
noun
Meaning 19
a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: demonstrator, protester
verb
Meaning 20
fasten with a picket
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- picket the goat
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Broader terms: fasten, fix, secure
verb
Meaning 21
serve as pickets or post pickets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- picket a business to protest the layoffs
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: demonstrate, march
History
Etymology
From French piquet, from piquer (“to pierce”).
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: وَتَد (watad) — stake driven into the ground
- Arabic: شَاخِص (šāḵiṣ) — stake driven into the ground
- Arabic: لِكَاز (likāz) — stake driven into the ground
- Bulgarian: кол (kol) — stake driven into the ground
- Catalan: piquet — stake driven into the ground
- Chinese Mandarin: 樴 /枳 (zhí) — stake driven into the ground
- Czech: kolík — stake driven into the ground
- Dutch: piket — stake driven into the ground
- Esperanto: paliso — stake driven into the ground
- Finnish: paalu — stake driven into the ground
- French: piquet — stake driven into the ground
- German: Pfosten — stake driven into the ground
- German: Pfahl — stake driven into the ground
- German: Zaunlatte — stake driven into the ground
- German: Latte — stake driven into the ground
- Icelandic: staur — stake driven into the ground
- Icelandic: rimill — stake driven into the ground
- Icelandic: pílári í girðingu — stake driven into the ground
- Irish: staic — stake driven into the ground
- Italian: paletto — stake driven into the ground
- Italian: piolo — stake driven into the ground
- Italian: picchetto — stake driven into the ground
- Japanese: 杭 (kui) — stake driven into the ground
- Khmer: រ (rɔɔ) — stake driven into the ground
- Macedonian: кол (kol) — stake driven into the ground
- Macedonian: ко́лец (kólec) — stake driven into the ground
- Māori: wāwā — stake driven into the ground
- Norwegian: staur — stake driven into the ground
- Polish: sztacheta — stake driven into the ground
- Romanian: pichet — stake driven into the ground
- Russian: кол (kol) — stake driven into the ground
- Russian: штаке́тина (štakétina) — stake driven into the ground
- Ottoman Turkish: قازیق (kazık) — stake driven into the ground
- Ottoman Turkish: وتد (veted) — stake driven into the ground
- Finnish: paaluun paneminen — type of punishment
- Bulgarian: пикел (pikel) — mountaineering tool
- Finnish: lumikiila — mountaineering tool
- Bulgarian: дозор (dozor) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Catalan: piquet — soldiers placed forward of position
- Estonian: pikett — soldiers placed forward of position
- Finnish: etuvartio — soldiers placed forward of position
- French: planton — soldiers placed forward of position
- French: piquet — soldiers placed forward of position
- German: Vorposten — soldiers placed forward of position
- Icelandic: hervörður — soldiers placed forward of position
- Italian: picchetto — soldiers placed forward of position
- Macedonian: ко́рдон (kórdon) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Russian: аванпо́ст (avanpóst) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Russian: кордо́н (kordón) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Russian: дозо́р (dozór) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Russian: форпо́ст (forpóst) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Russian: пике́т (pikét) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Southern Altai: пикет (piket) — soldiers placed forward of position
- Catalan: piquet — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Chinese Mandarin: 糾察隊 /纠察队 (jiūcháduì) — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Finnish: lakkovahti — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Finnish: lakkovartio — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- French: piquet — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- German: Streikposten — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Icelandic: verkfallsvörður — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Italian: picchetto — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Japanese: ピケット (piketto) — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Russian: пике́тчик (pikétčik) — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Russian: пике́тчица (pikétčica) — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Spanish: piquete — protester outside a workplace during a strike
- Tamil: மறியல் (maṟiyal) — protester outside a workplace during a strike
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