Definition of Pick up

1. Verb. Take and lift upward.

Exact synonyms: Gather Up, Lift Up
Generic synonyms: Bring Up, Elevate, Get Up, Lift, Raise

2. Verb. Take up by hand. "He picked up the book and started to read"
Generic synonyms: Touch

3. Verb. Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift. "We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway"
Generic synonyms: Transport
Derivative terms: Pickup

4. Verb. Gather or collect. "They pick up our trash twice a week"
Exact synonyms: Call For, Collect, Gather Up
Generic synonyms: Acquire, Get
Derivative terms: Pickup

5. Verb. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally. "They pick up that there was a traffic accident "; "I see that you have been promoted"
Exact synonyms: Discover, Find Out, Get A Line, Get Wind, Get Word, Hear, Learn, See
Specialized synonyms: Get The Goods, Wise Up, Catch, Trip Up, Ascertain, Discover, Find
Related verbs: Find, See, Witness
Derivative terms: Discovery, Discovery, Discovery

6. Verb. Get in addition, as an increase. "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home"
Generic synonyms: Acquire, Get

7. Verb. Take into custody. "The police nabbed the suspected criminals"
Exact synonyms: Apprehend, Arrest, Collar, Cop, Nab, Nail
Generic synonyms: Clutch, Prehend, Seize
Derivative terms: Apprehender, Apprehension, Arrest, Collar, Cop, Pickup

8. Verb. Buy casually or spontaneously. "The men pick up the chairs"; "I picked up some food for a snack"
Category relationships: Commerce, Commercialism, Mercantilism
Generic synonyms: Buy, Purchase
Derivative terms: Pickup

9. Verb. Register (perceptual input). "They pick up the information to them"; "Pick up a signal"
Exact synonyms: Receive
Generic synonyms: Comprehend, Perceive
Specialized synonyms: Hear
Derivative terms: Receiver, Receptive, Receptor

10. Verb. Lift out or reflect from a background. "His eyes picked up his smile"
Generic synonyms: Bring Out, Set Off

11. Verb. Meet someone for sexual purposes. "He always tries to pick up girls in bars"
Generic synonyms: Get Together, Meet
Derivative terms: Pickup

12. Verb. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism. "The performance is likely to pick up Sue"; "Music can uplift your spirits"
Exact synonyms: Elate, Intoxicate, Lift Up, Uplift
Generic synonyms: Excite, Shake, Shake Up, Stimulate, Stir
Specialized synonyms: Beatify, Puff, Beatify, Exalt, Exhilarate, Inebriate, Thrill, Tickle Pink
Causes: Joy, Rejoice
Antonyms: Depress
Derivative terms: Elation, Elation, Intoxication

13. Verb. Improve significantly; go from bad to good. "Her performance in school picked up"
Exact synonyms: Turn Around
Generic synonyms: Ameliorate, Better, Improve, Meliorate

14. Verb. Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily. "Catch a glimpse"
Exact synonyms: Catch
Generic synonyms: Comprehend, Perceive

15. Verb. Eat by pecking at, like a bird.
Exact synonyms: Peck
Generic synonyms: Eat
Derivative terms: Pecker

16. Verb. Gain or regain energy. "I picked up after a nap"
Exact synonyms: Gain Vigor, Percolate, Perk, Perk Up
Generic synonyms: Convalesce, Recover, Recuperate
Derivative terms: Pickup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pick Up

pickup
pickups
pickup arm
pickup truck
pickwick
pickwickian syndrome
pickwicks
picky
pick apart
pick at
pick bodies
Pick cell
pick off
pick out
pick over
pick up (current term)
pick up the gauntlet
picloram
picloram
piclorams
picnic
picnicked
picnicker
picnickers
picnicking
picnicky
picnics
picnic area
picnic ground
picnic ham

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