picked vs select

picked

adj
  • Chosen; selected. 

  • Having a pike or spine on the back. 

select

adj
  • Privileged, specially selected. 

  • Of high quality; top-notch. 

verb
  • To choose one or more elements of a set, especially a set of options. 

  • To obtain a set of data from a database using a query. 

How often have the words picked and select occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )