pick out

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verb

1. pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives (Freq. 4)
- 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
• Derivationally related forms:
selective (for: select), selection (for: select), selector (for: select)
• Hypernyms:
decide, make up one's mind, determine
• Hyponyms:
empanel, impanel, panel, anoint, field,
sieve, sift, draw, dial, plump, go,
pick, elect, excerpt, extract, take out, cull out,
winnow, cream off, skim off, sieve out, pick over, assign,
specify, set apart, single out, think of, set, determine,
define, fix, limit, adopt, follow, espouse,
espouse, screen out, sort, vote in, nominate,
propose, vote
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s (for: choose)
- They pick out him to write the letter
2. detect with the senses (Freq. 2)
- 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:
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern,
make out, tell apart
• Derivationally related forms:
discernible (for: discern), discernment (for: discern)
• Hyponyms:
resolve, discriminate
• Entailment:
perceive, comprehend
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody