Definitions for pick up
pick up

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pick up, lift up, gather upverb

   take and lift upward

2. pick upverb

   take up by hand

   "He picked up the book and started to read"

3. pick upverb

   give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift

   "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"

4. collect, pick up, gather up, call forverb

   gather or collect

   "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"

5. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, seeverb

   get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

   "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"

6. pick upverb

   get in addition, as an increase

   "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"

7. collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, copverb

   take into custody

   "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"

8. pick upverb

   buy casually or spontaneously

   "I picked up some food for a snack"

9. pick up, receiveverb

   register (perceptual input)

   "pick up a signal"

10. pick upverb

    lift out or reflect from a background

    "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile"

11. pick upverb

    meet someone for sexual purposes

    "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"

12. elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicateverb

    fill with high spirits; fill with optimism

    "Music can uplift your spirits"

13. turn around, pick upverb

    improve significantly; go from bad to good

    "Her performance in school picked up"

14. catch, pick upverb

    perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily

    "I caught the aroma of coffee"; "He caught the allusion in her glance"; "ears open to catch every sound"; "The dog picked up the scent"; "Catch a glimpse"

15. peck, pick upverb

    eat by pecking at, like a bird

16. perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigorverb

    gain or regain energy

    "I picked up after a nap"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pick upnoun

   An impromptu athletic game.

2. pick upnoun

   The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle. The time the act occurs.

3. pick upnoun

   An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line, pick-up joint, pickup artist.

4. pick upnoun

   A pickup truck.

5. pick upnoun

   A half-volley.

6. pick upverb

   To lift; to grasp and raise.

7. pick upverb

   To collect an object, especially in passing.

8. pick upverb

   To clean up; to return to an organized state.

9. pick upverb

   To collect a passenger.

10. pick upverb

    To collect and detain (a suspect).

11. pick upverb

    To improve, increase or speed up.

12. pick upverb

    To restart or resume.

13. pick upverb

    To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand.

14. pick upverb

    To receive (a radio signal or the like).

15. pick upverb

    To notice, detect or discern, often used with "on".

16. pick upverb

    To point out (a person's behaviour, habits or actions) in a critical manner.

17. pick upverb

    To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.

18. pick upverb

    To answer a telephone. See pick up the phone.

19. pick upverb

    To pay for.

20. pick upverb

    To reduce the despondency of.

21. pick upverb

    To take control (physically) of something.

22. pick upverb

    To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pick Up

   Pick Up the Pieces" is a 1974 sOng by the Average White Band from their second album, AWB. On the single, songwriting credit was given to founding member and saxophonist Roger Ball and guitarist Hamish Stuart individually and the entire band collectively. It is essentially an instrumental, apart from the song's title being shouted at several points in the song.

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1. pick up

   Pick up generally refers to the act of lifting or taking up an object, person, or idea. It can also refer to the act of collecting someone or something from a particular place. Additionally, it may mean to improve or increase or to learn or understand something inadvertently. This term has several meanings depending on context.

Etymology and OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pick up

   An Americanism for a cold dinner composed of the fragments of the previous day’s joint. Sometimes such a one is called a “Pick-up Dinner.”

Matched Categories

1. • Bring Out
   • Buy
   • Commerce
   • Eat
   • Get
   • Improve
   • Meet
   • Perceive
   • Raise
   • Stimulate
   • Touch
   • Transport

How to pronounce pick up?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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How to say pick up in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of pick up in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of pick up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of pick up in a Sentence

1. Marc Maron:

   Sadly, I knew what most people knew : There was a story out there, I guess going back several years, there were unnamed people in the story, it took place in a hotel room in Aspen. It was always out there, but then it would pick up momentum at different times, and I would ask Comedian Louis . about it. I would say, ‘ This story about you forcing these women to watch you jerk off, what is that, is that true ? ’ Comedian Louis . goes, ‘ No, it’s not true. It’s not real. It’s a rumor. ’ And I would say, ‘ Well, are you going to address it somehow ? Handle it ? Get out from under it whenever it shows up ? ’ ‘ Comedian Louis . ca n’t, I ca n’t do that. I ca n’t give it life, give it air. ’ That was the conversation.

2. Dan Moriarty:

   It’s replacing calling the front desk for that subset of guests, we don’t want to pick up the phone and wait for the front desk; we want to tweet and get on with our lives.

3. Alien Life -RSB- Raymond:

   We're trying to find examples of the most extreme environments we can on Earth, we're trying to get into places where biology runs headlong into the inorganic part of the Earth, where any nutrient you want to pick up you've got to get from a rock or the atmosphere.

4. Tricia Todd:

   You could put a hurricane through her, she would (still) go pick up her daughter.

5. Agathon Rwasa:

   I heard that there was a pick-up with guys in uniforms and equipped with RPG's and machine guns. That car didn't have number plates and stood there for about three hours and I was obliged to divert and go around another place, they shifted and went to the route they thought I would be utilizing, but I managed to divert and reach my point I was heading to.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=pick up
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pick_Up
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Up
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=pick up