PICKOUT
pick out
Verb
- to remove by picking
- 1859, Charles Dickens - ''''
- Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick, and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off.
- 1859, Charles Dickens - ''''
- to select
- 2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192
- Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
- 2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192
- to distinguish
- Apr 30, 1988, - Bonaventure Island a birdwatcher's delight 50,000 gannets jostle and spar for a piece of the island''
- The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of look-alikes.
- Apr 30, 1988, - Bonaventure Island a birdwatcher's delight 50,000 gannets jostle and spar for a piece of the island''
- to detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste)
- And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
- to send a long pass or cross to.
- 26 December 2006, 4TheGame - Bolton Wanderers vs Newcastle United
- Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J...
- 26 December 2006, 4TheGame - Bolton Wanderers vs Newcastle United
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