تعريف to pick out في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- excerp
- to distinguish
The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of look-alikes.
- to select
Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
- to remove by picking
Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick, and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off.
- 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.
- 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.
- excerp
- choose
I need to choose a costume for Purim.
- I need to pick out a Purim costume.
- detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
- If part of something is picked out in a particular colour, it is painted in that colour so that it can be seen clearly beside the other parts. The name is picked out in gold letters over the shop-front. = highlight
- pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "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"
- If you pick out someone or something, you recognize them when it is difficult to see them, for example because they are among a large group. The detective-constable picked out the words with difficulty Steven describes himself as `a regular guy -- you couldn't pick me out of a crowd'
- If you pick out someone or something, you choose them from a group of people or things. I have been picked out to represent the whole team There are so many great newscasters it's difficult to pick one out. = select
