DICTOMETER

PICK UP

(pick up, buscar, captar, coger, derogar, recoger, hente, plukke, plukke opp, samle sammen, ta, ta opp, tilegne seg)

1. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   • Pickup truck
   Definitions:
   • a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   Definitions:
   • a warrant to take someone into custody
   Examples:
   • Put out a pickup on that man
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   • Pick-me-up
   Definitions:
   • anything with restorative powers
   Examples:
   • She needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   Definitions:
   • a casual acquaintance
   • often made in hope of sexual relationships
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   • Getaway
   Definitions:
   • the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
   Examples:
   • His car has a lot of pickup
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Tone arm
   • Pickup
   • Pickup arm
   Definitions:
   • mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Cartridge
   • Pickup
   Definitions:
   • an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   Definitions:
   • the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
   Examples:
   • Garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Pickup
   Definitions:
   • the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
   
   

1. Synonyms:
   • Pick up
   • Lift up
   • Gather up
   Definitions:
   • take and lift upward
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Pick up
   Definitions:
   • take up by hand
   Examples:
   • He picked up the book and started to read
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Pick up
   Definitions:
   • give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
   Examples:
   • We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Collect
   • Pick up
   • Gather up
   • Call for
   Definitions:
   • gather or collect
   Examples:
   • You can get the results on Monday
   • She picked up the children at the day care center
   • They pick up our trash twice a week
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Learn
   • Hear
   • Get word
   • Get wind
   • Pick up
   • Find out
   • Get a line
   • Discover
   • See
   Definitions:
   • get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
   Examples:
   • I learned that she has two grown-up children
   • I see that you have been promoted
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Pick up
   Definitions:
   • get in addition, as an increase
   Examples:
   • The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Collar
   • Nail
   • Apprehend
   • Arrest
   • Pick up
   • Nab
   • Cop
   Definitions:
   • take into custody
   Examples:
   • The police nabbed the suspected criminals
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Pick up
   Definitions:
   • buy casually or spontaneously
   Examples:
   • I picked up some food for a snack
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Pick up
   • Receive
   Definitions:
   • register (perceptual input)
   Examples:
   • Pick up a signal
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Pick up
    Definitions:
    • lift out or reflect from a background
    Examples:
    • The scarf picks up the color of the skirt
    • His eyes picked up his smile
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Pick up
    Definitions:
    • meet someone for sexual purposes
    Examples:
    • He always tries to pick up girls in bars
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Elate
    • Lift up
    • Uplift
    • Pick up
    • Intoxicate
    Definitions:
    • fill with high spirits
    • fill with optimism
    Examples:
    • Music can uplift your spirits
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Turn around
    • Pick up
    Definitions:
    • improve significantly
    • go from bad to good
    Examples:
    • Her performance in school picked up
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Catch
    • Pick up
    Definitions:
    • perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
    Examples:
    • I caught the aroma of coffee
    • He caught the allusion in her glance
    • Ears open to catch every sound
    • The dog picked up the scent
    • Catch a glimpse
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Peck
    • Pick up
    Definitions:
    • eat by pecking at, like a bird
    
    
16. Synonyms:
    • Perk up
    • Perk
    • Percolate
    • Pick up
    • Gain vigor
    Definitions:
    • gain or regain energy
    Examples:
    • I picked up after a nap