English Dictionary

pick out

verb

to remove by picking / to select / (idiomatic) to distinguish; discern / To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.

She carefully picked out the ripest apples from the basket.

意味（1）

to remove by picking

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies,

But lering and lurking here and there like ſpies, The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies!

意味（2）

to select

Oliver had an erratic and often bewildering afternoon and, just to pick out one incident, the images of Joe Hart putting his forehead uncomfortably close to the official are certainly far from the norm.

意味（3）

(idiomatic) to distinguish; discern

The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of lookalikes.

意味（4）

To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.

a dark green carriage body picked out with red

意味（5）

(idiomatic) to detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste)

And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.

意味（6）

(idiomatic, soccer) to send a long pass or cross to.

Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J...