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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. Michael Wilding:

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

  2. Dr. Maxwell Maltz:

    Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.

  3. Walter Lippmann:

    The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  4. John Muir:

    When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

  5. George Clooney:

    I was very happy that we were going to get married and then [a pregnancy] seemed like the next step. because I've had friends pick out names around their parents and then it becomes ... whatever name you pick they're like, 'Oh, I don't like that.


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