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Noun pick-up has 9 senses
- pickup, pickup truck - a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
--1 is a kind of truck, motortruck
--1 has particulars: technical
- pickup - a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man"
--2 is a kind of bench warrant, arrest warrant
- pickup, pick-me-up - anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
--3 is a kind of corrective, restorative
- pickup - a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
--4 is a kind of acquaintance, friend
- pickup, getaway - the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup"
--5 is a kind of acceleration
- tone arm, pickup, pickup arm - mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
--6 is a kind of mechanical device
--6 is a part of record player, phonograph
- cartridge, pickup - an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
--7 is a kind of electro-acoustic transducer
--7 is a part of record player, phonograph
--7 has parts: stylus
--7 has particulars: crystal pickup
- pickup - the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
--8 is a kind of collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation
--8 has particulars:
- pickup - the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
--9 is a kind of acquiring, getting
--9 is a part of transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
Verb pick-up has 16 senses
- pick up, lift up, gather up - take and lift upward
--1 is one way to raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
Sample sentences:
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- pick up - take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read"
--2 is one way to touch
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- pick up - give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift; "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"
--3 is one way to transport
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- collect, pick up, gather up, call for - gather or collect; "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"
--4 is one way to get, acquire
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- learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see - get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
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- pick up - get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
--6 is one way to get, acquire
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- collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop - take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
--7 is one way to seize, prehend, clutch
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- pick up - buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack"
--8 is one way to buy, purchase
Sample sentence:
The men pick up the chairs
- pick up, receive - recieve (perceptual input); "pick up a signal"
--9 is one way to perceive, comprehend
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They pick up the information to them
- pick up - lift out or reflect from a background; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile"
--10 is one way to bring out, set off
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- pick up - meet someone for sexual purposes; "he always tries to pick up girls in bars"
--11 is one way to meet, get together
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- elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate - fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits"
--12 is one way to stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
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- turn around, pick up - get better; "Her performance in school picked up"
--13 is one way to better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate
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- catch, pick up - perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily; "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"
--14 is one way to perceive, comprehend
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- peck, pick up - eat by pecking at, like a bird
--15 is one way to eat
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- perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor - gain or regain energy; "I picked up after a nap"
--16 is one way to recuperate, recover, convalesce
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