cherry picker
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cherry picker¹
noun cherry pickers · cherrypicker · cherry-picker
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A piece of equipment consisting of a large basket at the end of an extensible boom, often mounted on a truck body, and used by workers to reach inaccessible places such as power lines and tall trees.
Near-synonym: man lift
Similar: boom lift, basket crane, hydraladder, bucket truck
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A cantilevered tool for installing or removing a vehicle's engine block.
Similar: engine crane, engine hoist
- A person or device that harvests cherries, or that aids in the harvesting of cherries. A relatively high proportion of the cost of production of RSP cherries is in the picking. Pickers are paid […]. There is considerable interest in a mechanical cherry picker which is reported to be able to double each picker's output.
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A person or group that picks the best for themselves; one who cherry-picks.
Similar: goalhanger
- A person or group that picks only evidence which supports an argument and ignores evidence which contradicts it; one who cherry-picks. Two conclusions stand out: The Bible is a cherry-picker's paradise, and human beings cannot function without double standards.
Cherry Picker²
noun Cherry Pickers
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Synonym of Cherrybum (“a member of the 11th Hussars cavalry regiment”).
Similar: Cherrybum
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noun boom lift for lifting people
| Español | plataforma elevadora |
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| Français | nacelle élévatrice |
| Deutsch | Hubarbeitsbühne, Arbeitsbühne, Hebebühne |
| Italiano | autocestello, piattaforma aerea, idroscala |
| Română | autoturn |
| Русский | автомоби́ль-вы́шка avtomobílʹ-výška, автовы́шка avtovýška, автогидроподъёмник avtogidropodʺjómnik, самохо́дная площа́дка обслу́живания samoxódnaja ploščádka obslúživanija |
noun one who picks the best for themselves
| Deutsch | Rosinenpicker |
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title = {cherry picker},
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