Synonym: apprehend, arrest, call for, catch, collar, collect, cop, discover, elate, find out, gain vigor, gather up, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, intoxicate, learn, lift up, nab, nail, peck, percolate, perk, perk up, receive, see, turn around, uplift. Similar words: pickup, back up, check up, pick, pick out, pick off, kick, trick. Meaning: v. 1. take and lift upward 2. take up by hand 3. give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift 4. gather or collect 5. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally 6. get in addition, as an increase 7. take into custody 8. buy casually or spontaneously 9. register (perceptual input) 10. lift out or reflect from a background 11. meet someone for sexual purposes 12. fill with high spirits; fill with optimism 13. get better 14. perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily 15. eat by pecking at, like a bird 16. gain or regain energy.
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121. I like the way the curtains pick up the red in the rug.
122. After lunch shall we pick up where we left off yesterday?
123. All I seem to do is cook, wash and pick up after the kids.
124. In some parts of the world, it is considered bad manners to pick up food or cutlery with the left hand.
125. The hotel manager signed to the porter to pick up my case.
126. You can pay now or when you come back to pick up the paint.
127. Wyman says he'll sell out if business doesn't pick up.
128. We can pick up the tickets an hour before the play begins.
129. I'd like to pick up on a point that Steven made earlier.
130. They depend on the goodwill of visitors to pick up rubbish.
131. Interviewers quickly learn to pick up non - verbal signals.
132. Scientists can now pick up early signs of the disease.
133. While reading this book, I have pick up more than one hundred printing mistakes.
134. If I could just pick up on a question you raised earlier.
135. The number of applicants will pick up during the autumn.
136. The car began to pick up the moment the vehicle got onto the motorway.
137. Pick up one of our free information sheets at reception.
138. I went to pick up the phone/receiver(sentencedict.com), but it had stopped ringing.
139. Even if you saw him pick up the money, you can't be sure he stole it.
140. He had to pick up his welfare cheque in person.
141. I don't want to pick up any bad habits from those people.
142. He stooped to pick up the carrier bag of groceries. Sentencedict.com
143. We take the A14 to Birmingham and then pick up the M5.
144. It is hard to pick up such a book and not to feel a little daunted.
145. The double-decker bus stopped to pick up some more passengers.
146. He raced to pick up the lifejackets while his stepmother sent out a Mayday call.
147. I can only pick up the linguistic crumbs.
148. You can pick up second-hand baby clothes very cheaply.
149. Readers can pick up a brochure for that.
150. Sheila bent down to pick up the cat.