Pick Out

Definition: Pick Out

Pick Out

Verb

1. 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. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pick Out

Choice

Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy.

Extraction

Verb: extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out, pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up, rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate; unroot; uproot, pull up, extirpate, dredge.

Information

Show one one's error; point out an error, point out a fallacy; pick out an error, pick out the fallacy; open one's eyes.

Crosswords: Pick Out

Barry can pick out the exact right flavor of ice cream to follow any meal. (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel)

Aw, Al, I'm gettin' kinda fond of you, kid. Not that I wanna pick out curtains or anything! (Aladdin; writing credit: Roger Allers; Ron Clements)

Now I think the first thing we should do is pick out a name for you and I think that you should pick it. Do you know what you want your name to be? (Big Man on Campus; writing credit: Allan Katz)

Please don't tell me you called me out of a wedding to pick out a suit! (Two Weeks Notice; writing credit: Marc Lawrence)

But if you've got the right eye for these things, you can pick out an accused man in the largest crowd. (Procès, Le; writing credit: Orson Welles)

You are an engineer if people groan at the party when you pick out the music. (references; author: unknown)

Pick Out Your Husband (1920)

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Then he told me he hoped I would pick out a wife for Peter --. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And your fingertips pick out the fluff, and the hands go twisting into the sack between your legs.

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Expressions using "pick out": pick out as a central theme ♦ pick out the fallacy ♦ To pick out. Additional references.

Afrikaans

verkies (choose, elect, pick, prefer), kies (choose, elect, pick). (various references)

Albanian

zgjedh (choose, constitute, cull, disentangle, draft, draught, elect, embrace, opt, pick, select, single out, solve, take), veçoj (abstract, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divide, divorce, individualize, insulate, isolate, keep separate, partition, seclude, segregate, separate), kuptoj (apprehend, catch, comprehend, cotton on, fathom, figure out, find, gather, get, grasp, make out, penetrate, perceive, Pierce, see, see through, sense, take, take in, twig on, understand), gjej (ascertain, assure, be, be present, catch, come across, dig up, discover, distil, distill, divine, fetch, figure out, find, find out, get, guess, hit, hunt down, hunt out, hunt up, look out, meet with, obtain, procure, root out, scare up, search out, trace), dalloj (descry, differ, differentiate, discern, discriminate, distinguish, espy, individualize, know, perceive, show smb. up, sight, single out, tab, tell them apart, trace). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏لقط, ‏إنتقى (select, single out), ‏إنتخب (cull, elect, poll, select, vote, vote in), ‏إختار (choose, cull, discriminate, elect, name, nominate, opt, pack, plump for, pronounce, select, single, slate, tag, take, tap), ‏أحس اختيار الشئ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

разчепквам (card, pick, tease), разчитам (decipher, depend, lean, puzzle out, read, read off, rely), разпознавам (discern, distinguish, know, recognize, spot, tell, tell apart), откривам (bare, descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pry out, recover, reopen, reveal, rout out, rout up, run down, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unearth, unveil), налучквам (hit), подбирам (assail, cull, extract, go for smb., herd, match, pick, pick over, rail at, round up, select, winnow), избирам (choose, cull, elect, make, mark down, name, opt, pick, put in, return, select, settle on, single out, sort out). (various references)

Catalan

triar (choose, elect). (various references)

Czech

vyložit si, vybírat (choose, collect, handpick, pick, take out), rozeznat (differentiate, discern, make out, tell). (various references)

Danish

vælge (choose, elect). (various references)

Dutch

verkiezen (choose, desire, elect, prefer, wish), uitzoeken (choose, elect, examine, explore, investigate, research), uitpikken (choose, elect), uitlezen (choose, elect, read, read out), uitkiezen (choose, elect), kiezen (choose, elect, vote). (various references)

Esperanto

elekti (choose, elect). (various references)

Faeroese

velja (choose, elect, prefer), kjósa (choose, elect). (various references)

Finnish

valita (choose, elect, pick, select). (various references)

French

choisir (pick, pick on), désigner (pick on). (various references)

Frisian

kieze (choose, elect), ferkieze (choose, elect). (various references)

German

auswählen (choose, chosen, elect, pick, select, selects, single out, to select), auslesen (choose, cull, elect, get through with, pick over, pick through, select). (various references)

Greek 

διαλέγω (choose, elect, garble, go for, pick, select, single somebody out, sort). (various references)

Hebrew 

לברור (choose, clarify, cull, opt, single out). (various references)

Hungarian

választ (choose, chose, chosen, elect, opt, select, to chair, to choose, to cull, to elect, to embrace, to opt), kiválaszt (choose, cull, excrete, exude, secrete, sort out, to cut out, to designate, to excrete, to exude, to predestinate, to select, to separate, to single out, to sort), kiszemel (choose, cull, mark out, single out, to cull, to pick on, to pick out, to prick, to single out), kikeres (look up, to look out, to look up, to pick). (various references)

Indonesian

memilih (choose, coopt, elect, opt). (various references)

Italian

scegliere (choose, cull, elect, pick, select, single, single out, to choose). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

取り出す (to pick out, to produce, to take out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ひろいあ�'る (to pick out, to pick up), つまみ� す (to pick out, to throw out), より� す (to pick out, to select), とり� す (to pick out, to produce, to take out), えり� す (to pick out, to select), えらびとる (to pick out itemfrom a group to keep), えらび� す (to pick out, to select). (various references)

Malay

pilih (choose, elect), memilih (choose, elect). (various references)

Manx

cur enn er (recognize). (various references)

Papiamen

skohe (choose, elect), kis (choose, elect), eskohé (choose, elect), eligí (choose, elect). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickpay outay

Polish

wybrać, wybierać. (various references)

Portuguese

escolher (adopt, choose, cull, elect, like, list, opt, pick, run up, select, single, sort, sort out, take, to choose). (various references)

Romanian

alege (appear, become, choose, churn, cull, decide, distinguish, elect, extract, glean, Peel, pick, pick on, refuse, reject, remain, result, return, screen, select, separate, shell, sift, single out, sort, sunder, take one's choice, winnow). (various references)

Russian 

выбирать (bouse, bows, choose, chose, chosen, elect, fetch, opt, pick, round in, select, selects, single out, take), выбрать (choose, elect). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

odabrati (cull, pick, select, tell off), jasno opaziti, izabrati (choose, chose, elect, number among, opt, pick, select). (various references)

Spanish

escoger (choose, cull, elect, Favor, favour, go for, look out, mark down, mark out, opt, pick, select), elegir (choose, constitute, elect, Favor, favour, opt, peek, pick on, read out, return, select, tip, vote in). (various references)

Swedish

peka ut, välja ut (single out), urskilja (discern, distinguish, espy, make out, tell), ta ut (draw, draw on, draw out, take out, tell off), markera (empasize, highlight, indicate, mark, mark off, plot, stress, trace), kora (choose, elect), få fram (educe, elicit, get out, procure, produce). (various references)

Turkish

seçmek (adopt, be particular about, choose, co opt, constitute, coopt, cull, decide on, decide up, descry, distinguish, elect, hand-pick, intend, intend for, look out, opt, perceive, pick, plump for, postulate, select, single out, spot). (various references)

Ukrainian

висмикувати (draw). (various references)

Zulu

-vota (choose, elect, vote), -khetha (choose, elect). (various references)

adoptaverat, adoptavit, adopto, circumlegentes, cumelecta, electa, electae, electam, electas, electi, electis, electo, electorum, electos, electrix, electum, electus, elegerat, elegerim, elegerint, elegeris, elegerit, elegeritis, elegero, elegerunt, elegi, elegimus, elegisti, elegistis, elegit, elegitque, eligam, eligamus, eligans, eligant, eligantur, eligatur, elige, eligens, eligent, eligere, eligerent, eligeret, eliget, eligetur, eligite, eligitur, eligunt, lecta, lectae, lectis, lecto, lectum, lecturi, lectus, legant, legatur, lege, legebant, legebantur, legebat, legebatur, legens, legentem, legentes, legentibus, legentium, legere, legeris, legerit, legerunt, leges, legesque, leget, legetque, legi, legis, legissent, legisset, legisti, legistis, legit, legite, legitque, legitur, optare, seceleg. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: uptick.

-2 letters: optic, picot, topic, tupik.

-3 letters: coup, otic, pick, pock, pout, puck, tick, topi, tuck.

-4 letters: cop, cot, cup, cut, ick, kip, kit, koi, kop, opt, out, pic, pit, piu, poi, pot, put, tic, tip, top, tui, tup, upo.

-5 letters: it, op, pi, ti, to, up, ut.

+3 letters: cuckoopint.

+4 letters: computernik, cuckoopints, outpolitick.

+5 letters: computerlike, computerniks, leukopoietic, outpoliticks.