pick-out

Verbs

  • (v) 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
    choose, select, take,
  • (v) 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
    discern, make out, tell apart, distinguish, spot, recognise, recognize,

Synonyms

choose select take discern make out tell apart distinguish spot recognise recognize

Words of close approximity

pick-off pick off