Dictionary entry details
• PICK OUT (verb)
Meaning:
Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
choose; pick out; select; take
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "pick out" is one way to...):
decide; determine; make up one's mind (reach, make, or come to a decision about something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pick out"):
empanel; impanel; panel (select from a list)
single out (select from a group)
think of (choose in one's mind)
determine; fix; limit; set; specify (decide upon or fix definitely)
adopt; espouse; follow (choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans)
screen; screen out; sieve; sort (examine in order to test suitability)
vote in (elect in a voting process)
elect (select by a vote for an office or membership)
nominate; propose (put forward; nominate for appointment to an office)
vote (express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution; cast a vote)
go with; side (take the side of; be on the side of)
assign; set apart; specify (select something or someone for a specific purpose)
pick over; sieve out (separate or remove)
cream off; skim off (pick the best)
anoint (choose by or as if by divine intervention)
field (select (a team or individual player) for a game)
sieve; sift (distinguish and separate out)
draw (select or take in from a given group or region)
dial (choose by means of a dial)
go; plump (give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number)
pick (select carefully from a group)
elect (choose)
excerpt; extract; take out (take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy)
cull out; winnow (select desirable parts from a group or list)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They pick out him to write the letter
Meaning:
Detect with the senses
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
make out; tell apart; discern; pick out; distinguish; recognise; recognize
Context examples:
The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards / I can't make out the faces in this photograph
"Pick out" entails doing...:
comprehend; perceive (to become aware of through the senses)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pick out"):
resolve (make clearly visible)
discriminate (distinguish)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
