Picket
noun
A strip of wooden or metal fences used to mark boundary or to protect an area.
The white picket fence around the house looks beautiful.
Often appears as...
- picket fence
- picket gate
noun
A group of people standing or marching near a place as a form of protest.
The workers set up a picket outside the factory, demanding better wages.
Often appears as...
- picket line
- picket sign
verb
To strike or protest by standing or marching near a place.
The workers decided to picket the factory after management refused to increase their salary.
Often appears as...
- picket outside
- picket against
noun
A soldier or group of soldiers positioned to guard against surprise attack.
The picket was in place to warn of any approaching enemies.
Often appears as...
- picket line
- picket duty
Usage tips
Military
verb
To guard with a standing soldier or soldiers.
The general ordered to picket the camp overnight.
Often appears as...
- picket the camp
- picket the area
Usage tips
Military
noun
A strip of wooden or metal fences used to mark boundary or to protect an area.
The white picket fence around the house looks beautiful.
Often appears as...
- picket fence
- picket gate
noun
A group of people standing or marching near a place as a form of protest.
The workers set up a picket outside the factory, demanding better wages.
Often appears as...
- picket line
- picket sign
verb
To strike or protest by standing or marching near a place.
The workers decided to picket the factory after management refused to increase their salary.
Often appears as...
- picket outside
- picket against
noun
A soldier or group of soldiers positioned to guard against surprise attack.
The picket was in place to warn of any approaching enemies.
Often appears as...
- picket line
- picket duty
Usage tips
Military
verb
To guard with a standing soldier or soldiers.
The general ordered to picket the camp overnight.
Often appears as...
- picket the camp
- picket the area
Usage tips
Military
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Traditional Symbol
The white picket fence is often associated with the ideal suburban home in American culture.
They dreamed of a spacious yard surrounded by a white picket fence.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Barrier
Pickets can provide privacy and are used to visually block unwanted views into an area.
They planted roses along the picket fence for more privacy.
Pro Tip 1/2Traditional Symbol
The white picket fence is often associated with the ideal suburban home in American culture.
They dreamed of a spacious yard surrounded by a white picket fence.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Barrier
Pickets can provide privacy and are used to visually block unwanted views into an area.
They planted roses along the picket fence for more privacy.
Pro Tip 1/2Traditional Symbol
The white picket fence is often associated with the ideal suburban home in American culture.
They dreamed of a spacious yard surrounded by a white picket fence.
Pro Tip 2/2Visual Barrier
Pickets can provide privacy and are used to visually block unwanted views into an area.
They planted roses along the picket fence for more privacy.
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The money talk that...
How do you measure your financial success? Is it a house with a white picket fence, or is it having the ability to live anywhere around the globe? Number What's the one thing you wish your parents would have done differently financially? As a university study found, it's important to answer these questions together because joint decision-making,
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Could the sun be good...
helping cells survive and I then moved back to Edinburgh and in Edinburgh the experimental animal we use is the medical student it's a species close to human with several advantages over mice they're free you don't shave them they feed themselves and nobody pickets your office saying save the lab medical
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I grew up in the...
when I was desperately hoping there was a way I could stay with my family. People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read. She said, "You're just a human being,
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We must reignite dream...
and a picket line protest singing band and we serve papers to our high school we said we're not going to take this then just to continue the trend that week in my high school graduation speech at the last second I decided that I was going to give a passionate passionate
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The new American Dream PIPE...
this humble acknowledgment that kids are healthier when they have a wider range of adults to emulate and count on. Turns out, adults are healthier, too. It's a lot of pressure, trying to be that perfect family behind that white picket fence.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on...
is never a theist don't even do that there is no scientist or atheist picketing outside of your church or synagogue or mosque you know that might not necessarily be true there is no such tradition so what is the motivation to
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Virginia Postrel: The...
we put them into a golden world, an imagined world, an age of heroes, the world to come. And in the life of an individual, we often associate that with some object. The white picket fence, the perfect house.
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A bold idea to replace...
in a world in which direct democracy and software agents are a viable form of participation. So how do we start the revolution? We don't start this revolution with picket fences or protests
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Black Women and the...
hours paul will with her comrades picket the white house um looking to pressure shame embarrass woodrow wilson and his administration into supporting a federal amendment for
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Prison Nation PIPE National...
around good life you know that know with the picket fence you know what I'm but sometimes the violence of prison is too much for success everyone goes into
Video examples
The money talk that...
How do you measure your financial success? Is it a house with a white picket fence, or is it having the ability to live anywhere around the globe? Number What's the one thing you wish your parents would have done differently financially? As a university study found, it's important to answer these questions together because joint decision-making,
Video examples
Could the sun be good...
helping cells survive and I then moved back to Edinburgh and in Edinburgh the experimental animal we use is the medical student it's a species close to human with several advantages over mice they're free you don't shave them they feed themselves and nobody pickets your office saying save the lab medical
Video examples
I grew up in the...
when I was desperately hoping there was a way I could stay with my family. People I have loved with every pulse of my heart since even before I was that chubby-cheeked five-year-old, standing on a picket line holding a sign I couldn't read. She said, "You're just a human being,
Video examples
We must reignite dream...
and a picket line protest singing band and we serve papers to our high school we said we're not going to take this then just to continue the trend that week in my high school graduation speech at the last second I decided that I was going to give a passionate passionate
Video examples
The new American Dream PIPE...
this humble acknowledgment that kids are healthier when they have a wider range of adults to emulate and count on. Turns out, adults are healthier, too. It's a lot of pressure, trying to be that perfect family behind that white picket fence.
Video examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson on...
is never a theist don't even do that there is no scientist or atheist picketing outside of your church or synagogue or mosque you know that might not necessarily be true there is no such tradition so what is the motivation to
Video examples
Virginia Postrel: The...
we put them into a golden world, an imagined world, an age of heroes, the world to come. And in the life of an individual, we often associate that with some object. The white picket fence, the perfect house.
Video examples
A bold idea to replace...
in a world in which direct democracy and software agents are a viable form of participation. So how do we start the revolution? We don't start this revolution with picket fences or protests
Video examples
Black Women and the...
hours paul will with her comrades picket the white house um looking to pressure shame embarrass woodrow wilson and his administration into supporting a federal amendment for
Video examples
Prison Nation PIPE National...
around good life you know that know with the picket fence you know what I'm but sometimes the violence of prison is too much for success everyone goes into
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Quote examples
Megan Phelps-Roper
American Activist
Because of the dynamics on the picket line all my life, I had these expectations of people. It was all the things that I had learned about outsiders from the time I was tiny, that they were evil, that if they were being nice to me they were trying to seduce me away from the truth.
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Tom Brady
American Football Player
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
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Anne Sexton
American Poet
I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
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Paul Robeson
American Actor
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
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Lindsey Vonn
American Athlete
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
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Gary Ross
American Actor
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
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Ruby Dee
American Actress
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
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Mitch Hedberg
American Comedian
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
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Mikis Theodorakis
Greek Composer
In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.
Quote examples
Megan Phelps-Roper
American Activist
Because of the dynamics on the picket line all my life, I had these expectations of people. It was all the things that I had learned about outsiders from the time I was tiny, that they were evil, that if they were being nice to me they were trying to seduce me away from the truth.
Quote examples
Tom Brady
American Football Player
Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.
Quote examples
Maya Angelou
American Poet
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.
Quote examples
Anne Sexton
American Poet
I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
Quote examples
Paul Robeson
American Actor
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
Quote examples
Lindsey Vonn
American Athlete
Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
Quote examples
Gary Ross
American Actor
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
Quote examples
Ruby Dee
American Actress
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
Quote examples
Mitch Hedberg
American Comedian
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Quote examples
Mikis Theodorakis
Greek Composer
In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.
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