pick up
• take hold of and lift or move someone or something.
• "I reached out and picked up a magazine"
• go somewhere to collect someone, typically in one's car.
• "will you pick the children up from school?"
Similar:
fetch,
collect,
go to get,
go/come and get,
call for,
go/come for,
give someone a lift,
give someone a ride,
• casually strike up a conversation with a stranger, with the aim of having sex with them.
• "one night I picked up a stranger in a bar"
Similar:
take up with,
make advances to,
get off with,
pull,
cop off with,
• return to a point made by someone in order to criticize it.
• "she picked him up on one niggling point"
• make someone feel more energetic and cheerful.
• "songs to pick you up and make you feel good"
• stand up again after a fall.
• "Emily picked herself up off the grass"
• collect something that has been left elsewhere.
• "Wanda came over to pick up her things"
• obtain, acquire, or learn something, especially in an informal way.
• "he had picked up a little Russian from his father"
Similar:
find,
discover,
locate,
come across,
stumble across,
happen on,
chance on,
unearth,
obtain,
come by,
come to have,
get,
receive,
procure,
secure,
take/get possession of,
acquire,
purchase,
buy,
get hold of,
get/lay one's hands on,
get one's mitts on,
bag,
land,
net,
learn,
get to know,
acquire (a knowledge of),
acquire skill in,
become competent/proficient in,
master,
digest,
imbibe,
assimilate,
absorb,
take in,
get the hang of,
hear,
hear tell,
find out,
get wind of,
be informed of,
be told,
be made aware of,
be given to understand,
glean,
discern,
become conscious/aware of,
observe,
notice,
perceive,
• become better; improve.
• "my luck's picked up"
Similar:
improve,
get better,
recover,
mend,
be on the road to recovery,
rally,
make a comeback,
bounce back,
perk up,
look up,
take a turn for the better,
turn the/a corner,
be on the mend,
develop,
make headway,
progress,
make progress,
advance,
• detect or receive a signal or sound, especially by means of electronic apparatus.
• "we've picked up a distress signal"
• resume something.
• "let's pick up where we left off yesterday"
Similar:
begin again,
begin,
take up,
start again,
start,
resume,
recommence,
carry on,
go on,
continue,
pickup
noun
• a small van or truck with low sides.
• an act of collecting a person or goods, especially in a vehicle.
• "travel by coach from your local pickup point to your hotel"
• a casual encounter with a stranger with a view to having sex.
• "most people met through casual pickups"
• an improvement, especially in an economy.
• "a pickup in demand"
Similar:
improvement,
recovery,
revival,
upturn,
upswing,
rally,
comeback,
resurgence,
renewal,
reinvigoration,
advancement,
betterment,
a turn for the better,
• a device that produces an electrical signal in response to some other kind of signal or change.
• the reception of signals, especially interference or noise, by electrical apparatus.
• "this microphone helps reduce the pickup of background noise"
• a series of introductory notes leading into the opening part of a tune.
• a semicircular loop of metal for guiding the line back on to the spool as it is reeled in.
pickup
adjective
• informal and spontaneous.
• "a pickup basketball game"
