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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211. The wind began to pick up again, moaning round their ears.
212. Now pick up your phone, call us, and move on to Stage Two.
213. Abdul-Jabbar promised to sign autographs when he returned to pick up his $ 10, 000 saddle.
214. Your firm has a potted guide to the rules about residence and domicile - pick up a copy as you leave.
215. Pepita began to pick up the fallen bananas and place them back in their crate.
216. Carriage at right: Knit 1 row to left with background colour. * Carriage at left: Pick up colour 2.
217. I can pick up a letter there without any bother.
218. You don't wait to pick up personal belongings, you just get the hell out.
219. A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years.
220. I wanted to pick up the poker and beat him over the head until he lay senseless on the floor.
221. It required some concentration to pick up the coffee cups and carry them out to the kitchen.
222. Sammy scampered leisurely in front of him while he stopped intermittently to pick up sweet chestnuts on the way.
223. By eight months, Hannah could pick up small objects by scooping them up into her fist.
224. The winners will be notified tomorrow and they can pick up their tickets at the box office.
225. But Baker said he and his co-counsel Robert Blasier will pick up those themes when their closing argument resumes Thursday morning.
226. You pick up your gear and you settle your bill.
227. Pick up something to read and look at it carefully, not frantically flicking through the pages.
228. If you pick up a sea cucumber, do so with care, for they have an extravagant way of defending themselves.
229. I thought she was going to pick up the ball or something, she was so small.
230. Its dendrites pick up information from other neurons, and the axon and its terminals pass this on to other cells.
231. The plan is for us to leave on Friday to pick up Joe.
232. Or they can pick up cut-price plant and equipment, or computer systems.
232. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
233. Pick up your chairs, children. Don't drag them along the floor.
234. I thought I had been lucky enough to pick up a shore current that was helping me along toward the rip.
235. And for VectorMan fans, the hyperkinetic android returns to pick up where his first adventure left off.
236. The object thereupon begins to expand, and it will rapidly pick up speed.
237. Now downtown and suburban churches pick up the $ 215, 000-a-year operating costs.
238. Chastened, you pick up the bicycle and shuffle indoors, convinced you have ruined everything for good.
239. You pick up the path after you've climbed the fence behind the campsite toilet.
240. My sister, Susan, was up from Florida to pick up Patience and Jack. 1 was feeling very cheated.