Definition of pick up

verb (v)

• take and lift upward (verb.motion)

  Synonym: gather up, lift up
  

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• take up by hand (verb.contact)

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• give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift (verb.motion)

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• gather or collect (verb.possession)

  Synonym: call for, collect, gather up
  

  Example:
  They pick up our trash twice a week.
  

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• get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (verb.cognition)

  Synonym: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, see
  

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• get in addition, as an increase (verb.possession)

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• take into custody (verb.contact)

  Synonym: apprehend, arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail
  

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• buy casually or spontaneously (verb.possession)

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• register (perceptual input) (verb.perception)

  Synonym: receive
  

  Example:
  Pick up a signal.
  

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• lift out or reflect from a background (verb.change)

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• meet someone for sexual purposes (verb.social)

  Example:
  He always tries to pick up girls in bars.
  

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• fill with high spirits; fill with optimism (verb.emotion)

  Synonym: elate, intoxicate, lift up, uplift
  Antonym: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down
  

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• improve significantly; go from bad to good (verb.change)

  Synonym: turn around
  

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• perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily (verb.perception)

  Synonym: catch
  

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• eat by pecking at, like a bird (verb.consumption)

  Synonym: peck
  

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• gain or regain energy (verb.body)

  Synonym: gain vigor, percolate, perk, perk up
  

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