Crossword clues for pick out
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to remove by picking 2 to select 3 (context idiomatic English) to distinguish 4 To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour. 5 (context idiomatic English) to detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste) 6 (context idiomatic soccer English) to send a long pass or cross to.
WordNet
v. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn: choose, take, select]
detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn: recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, make out, tell apart]
Usage examples of "pick out".
As a Cook he had a penetrating, inspired eye, and would pick out the fattest chicken out of a whole poultry yard, and he gravely weighed an egg in his hand, and knew when it had been laid.
Why dont you just pick out a good place to set up that time-probe and try it blind?
Why don't you just pick out a good place to set up that time-probe and try it blind?
They used to vacation here, and for fun on rainy days they'd walk up and down the beach, pick out lots, plan their dream vacation home.
The lines at right angles to the frame pick out two of the planets, the first and the third.
He seemed able to pick out the advantages and disadvantages of just about anything the Russians chose to do.
There were times when Jupiter shone so brilliantly that one could see the banding and pick out the moons.
The masks and dominoes made it particularly difficult for him to pick out any of the Satanists whom he had seen at the previous party, but after a little, he noticed a man with a dark-skinned, fleshy neck and thin, black hair whom he felt certain was the Babu, and a little later a tall, lank, fair-haired figure who was undoubtedly the Albino.
If not, let us pick out the mane of a lion, that he may not be slovenly.
It occurs to me that I can have an iron peabush, a sort of trellis, through which I could discharge electricity at frequent intervals, and electrify the birds to death when they alight: for they stand upon my beautiful brush in order to pick out the peas.
Even totally untrained observers can pick out the young child who is more likely to become schizophrenic at age 20 or so.
Why, among forty millions of people, did they pick out him, an unknown clergyman, living in an obscure place hundreds of miles from the metropolis, to be the favored recipient of untold wealth?
And take this for a rule: you may pick out such times and such companies, that you make yourselves merrier for a little than a great deal of money.
I pick out four of the largest oranges in the basket, while all eyes are fixed on me intently, and, for the first time, pull out a piece of money.
He shouldn't have been difficult to pick out, with his black hair, bright gray eyes, and slightly deformed left forearm.