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pick out

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. choose, take, select, pick outverb

    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. spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apartverb

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. pick outverb

    to remove by picking

  2. pick outverb

    to select

  3. pick outverb

    to distinguish

  4. pick outverb

    to detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste)

  5. pick outverb

    to send a long pass or cross to.

ChatGPT

  1. pick out

    "Pick out" generally refers to the act of selecting, identifying, or choosing something from a group or a range of options. It can also mean to recognize and discern a particular element or feature in a complex situation or environment.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pick out in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pick out in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of pick out in a Sentence

  1. Jennifer Wyatt:

    I don't think shy people wear orange. You want to be noticed if you wear orange, if you are depressed and you go to your closet, you are probably not going to pick out an orange dress to wear.

  2. Michael Wilding:

    You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

  3. Cousino Hood:

    You'd let them pick out a T-shirt, why wouldn't you let them pick out a face covering ?

  4. Zoltan Levay:

    It's a challenge to pick out what one would consider the best.

  5. Isaiah Thomas:

    I am humbled by every person who told my office of the humiliation and trauma experienced in some of these traffic stops, to many people who look like me, a traffic stop is a rite of passage -- we pick out cars, we determine routes, we plan our social interactions around the fact that it is likely that we will be pulled over by police.


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