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1pick up — 1) PHRASAL VERB When you pick something up, you lift it up. [V n P] He picked his cap up from the floor and stuck it back on his head... [V P n (not pron)] Ridley picked up a pencil and fiddled with it. 2) PHRASAL VERB When you pick …
2pick up — {v.} 1. To take up; lift. * /During the morning Mrs. Carter picked up sticks in the yard./ 2. {informal} To pay for someone else. * /After lunch, in the restaurant, Uncle Bob picked up the check./ 3. To take on or away; receive; get. * /At the… …
3pick up — {v.} 1. To take up; lift. * /During the morning Mrs. Carter picked up sticks in the yard./ 2. {informal} To pay for someone else. * /After lunch, in the restaurant, Uncle Bob picked up the check./ 3. To take on or away; receive; get. * /At the… …
4pick holes in something — phrase to try and make an idea or piece of work seem bad by finding all the things that are wrong or missing It was almost impossible to pick holes in his argument. Thesaurus: to criticize, accuse or blamesynonym words used to describe… …
5pick someone off — pick (someone/something) off 1. to kill or shoot one person or animal at a time. Snipers picked the soldiers off one by one. The birds in the nest were picked off by hawks. 2. to select and attack or defeat a particular person or group. During… …
6pick something off — pick (someone/something) off 1. to kill or shoot one person or animal at a time. Snipers picked the soldiers off one by one. The birds in the nest were picked off by hawks. 2. to select and attack or defeat a particular person or group. During… …
7pick off — pick (someone/something) off 1. to kill or shoot one person or animal at a time. Snipers picked the soldiers off one by one. The birds in the nest were picked off by hawks. 2. to select and attack or defeat a particular person or group. During… …
8pick — 1 /pIk/ verb (T) 1 CHOOSE STH to choose someone or something good or suitable from a group or range of people or things: Students have to pick three courses from a list of 15. | Let me pick a few examples at random. | pick your words (=be careful …
9pick — pick1 [ pık ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to choose someone or something from a group: Out of all the girls he could have gone out with, he picked me. pick someone/something for something: She was picked for the school play. pick someone to do… …
10Try — This article is about the use of the word in rugby football terminology. For the method of scoring in American and Canadian football, see Convert. For other uses, see Try (disambiguation). Shaun Perry scoring a try for England against the All… …
