Synonym: cartridge, getaway, pick-me-up, pickup arm, pickup truck, tone arm. Similar words: pick up, back up, check up, pick, pick out, pick off, kick, trick. Meaning: [ˈpɪkʌp] 
n. 1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard 2. a warrant to take someone into custody 3. anything with restorative powers 4. a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships 5. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration 6. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge 7. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable 8. the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places 9. the act of taking aboard passengers or freight.
n. 1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard 2. a warrant to take someone into custody 3. anything with restorative powers 4. a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships 5. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration 6. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge 7. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable 8. the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places 9. the act of taking aboard passengers or freight. 
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(61) Here, discrete particle swam optimization algorithm is introduced to solve the problem of optimal restoration of distribution feeders during cold load pickup.
(62) Time Dial Setting and pickup current of the inverse time protection are the two parameters need to be optimized.
(63) This headset can enable the pickup of near-field signal but excludes the pickup of undesired far-field noises,(www.Sentencedict.com) thanks to microphone array technology.
(64) An optical pickup generates spherical aberration in a laser light emitted from a semiconductor laser becoming a light source by moving, in the direction of the optical path, a collimate lens.
(65) Winner pay actual shipping cost plus packing fees, 28$ for the USA and 20$ for Canada. PICKUP IS ALLOWED.
(66) A stable programme control exciter and weak signal pickup circuits are designed, and a 16 channels magnetic induction tomography hardware system is finally completed.
(67) Late in the afternoon, thunder growling , that same old green pickup rolled in and he saw Jack get out of the truck, beat-up Resistol tilted back.
(68) He prints out a detailed call list of prospective employers to take with him, squeezing in phone conversations during breaks throughout the day from his pickup truck, which he calls his "office."
(69) Not long ago a young Mongolian livestock herder named Ochkhuu Genen loaded what was left of his life into a borrowed Chinese pickup truck and moved it to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's sprawling capital.
(70) In the light of the pickup current of a submersible electric pump being too large when started at full pressure, a new variable frequency control system is developed.
(71) When we pulled into the dealer's yard, there was my little blue Sundowner with a sold sticker on it. Next to it was the brown pickup, all washed and shiny, with a big SOLD sign on the window.
(72) The purpose of this study is to design a diffraction optical element using magnetorheological fluid for a switchable object lens used in optical pickup head.
(73) There are several methods are used in level measurement by using different instruments, for example, float ball level gage, pressure pickup level gage and radar level gage, etc.
(74) The pickup was old, no heater, one windshield wiper and bad tires; when the transmission went there was no money to fix it.
(75) The simulation results indicate that the wake of the pickup truck is formed of two regions, one above the truck bed, and the other behind the tailgate.
(76) Using a hand-held computer called a Deliver Information Acquisition Device, UPS drivers automatically capture customers' signatures along with pickup, delivery, and time-card information.
(77) If the voltmeter contacts are non-ohmic, they may rectify any AC pickup present and cause a DC offset error.
(78) If this desperately poor city is no longer able to provide services to the neighborhood — trash pickup, fire protection — "we'll just have to deal with it, " she says.
(79) A diamond stylus is traversed across the specimen and a piezoelectric pickup records all vertical movement. Peaks and valleys are recorded and converted into a known value of a given parameter.
(80) In scheme II, container trains are remade-up after hauled into a junction station in pickup and drop trains, and the remade-up trains are delivered to a marshalling station in transfer trains.
(81) One day, a convoy of three gleaming new pickup trucks appeared at the rancho.
(82) Paul Covarrubias, 26, who lives in Chula Vista and works in construction in San Diego, crosses the border each week just to refuel his dual-cab Ford F-250 pickup.
(83) Six years ago, filling the tank of his pickup truck cost Mr. Passman less than $30. Now, he is paying more than $70.
(84) A nervous llama lies in the back of a pickup truck amid the moonscape of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
(85) Cold shots develop from low casting temperature, and dirt spots result from pickup of sand or slag by molten metal.
(86) The accuracy of the method would be satisfied by careful calibration of the pickup coil and compensation for zero-phase angle.
(87) Revolution isn't always glamorous, and the trash pickup that got underway in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday proved just that.
(88) Later my dad bought a hardtop Chevy pickup with a three-quarter-ton capacity, and hired three others to drive convoy-style up I-95, or what he called the "Reefer Express."
(89) The principle and function of CCD pickup device, Super-HARP pickup tube and digital TV camera is presented in detail in this paper.
(90) All owners pay about $860 a year for private trash pickup and recreational facilities, including parks, community pools and baseball fields.