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pick out
Overview of verb pick-out
The verb pick out has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (4) choose, take, select, pick out -- (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her")
2. (2) recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart -- (detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph")
Antonyms of verb pick-out
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb pick-out
2 senses of pick out
Sense 1
choose, take, select, pick out
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sense 2
recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb pick-out
2 senses of pick out
Sense 1
choose, take, select, pick out
=> empanel, impanel, panel
=> anoint
=> field
=> sieve, sift
=> draw
=> dial
=> plump, go
=> pick
=> elect
=> excerpt, extract, take out
=> cull out, winnow
=> cream off, skim off
=> sieve out, pick over
=> assign, specify, set apart
=> single out
=> think of
=> specify, set, determine, fix, limit
=> adopt, follow, espouse
=> screen, screen out, sieve, sort
=> vote in
=> elect
=> nominate, propose
=> vote
=> side, go with
Sense 2
recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
=> resolve
=> discriminate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb pick-out
2 senses of pick out
Sense 1
choose, take, select, pick out
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
Sense 2
recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
'Cause To' of verb pick-out
Derived Forms of verb pick-out
Domain of verb pick-out
Domain Terms of verb pick-out
Familiarity of verb pick-out
pick out used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb pick-out
2 senses of pick out
Sense 1
choose, take, select, pick out
EX: They pick out him to write the letter
Sense 2
recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb pick-out
1 of 2 senses of pick out
Sense 1
choose, take, select, pick out
> decide, make up one's mind, determine
=> measure, mensurate, measure out
=> choose, take, select, pick out
=> will
=> seal
=> purpose, resolve
=> rule, decree
=> orient, orientate
=> judge, adjudicate, try
=> regulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb pick-out
Sense 1
choose, take, select, pick out
=> decide, make up one's mind, determine
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Sense 2
recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart
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