pick out
Etymology Verb
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Etymology Verb
pick out (third-person singular simple present picks out, present participle picking out, simple past and past participle picked out)
- (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!
- But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- (transitive) To select.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distinguish; discern.
- (transitive) To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.
- a dark green carriage body picked out with red
- (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.
- (transitive, idiomatic, soccer) To send a long pass or cross to.
- (transitive) To play music slowly, such as when practicing.
- Russian: выковы́ривать
- German: auswählen, heraussuchen
- French: distinguer, faire la distinction, faire la différence
- German: erkennen, unterscheiden
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