pick out
Etymology

From pick + out.

Verb

pick out (third-person singular simple present picks out, present participle picking out, simple past and past participle picked out)

  1. (transitive) To remove by picking.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,
      The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!
  2. (transitive) To select.
  3. (transitive, idiomatic) To distinguish; discern.
  4. (transitive) To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.
    a dark green carriage body picked out with red
  5. (transitive, idiomatic) To detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste).
    • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC ↗:
      And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
  6. (transitive, idiomatic, soccer) To send a long pass or cross to.
  7. (transitive) To play music slowly, such as when practicing.
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