| Definitions | pick up
noun , pick-up or pickup
- A casual athletic game.
- Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play .
- The act of picking up something or someone.
- A pickup truck.
Translations: verb (picks up, picking up, picked up, picked up) (idiom)
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- When you the bag, make sure to support the bottom.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- Can you a pint of milk on your way home?
- (transitive, or, intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- Aren't you going to after yourself?
- 1971-1977, "Or", w:The Electric Company, The Electric Company
- : Bayn Johnson: Pick up you room
- : June Angela: or you can't have a snack.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- I'll pick you up outside the library.
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- Prices seem to be picking up again.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- Let's where we left off yesterday.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand.
- It looks complicated, but you'll soon pick it up.
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern, often used with "on".
- Did you his nervousness?
- Did you pick up on his nervousness?
- (transitive) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation, sometimes used with "on".
- He was in the fabric store not to buy fabric but to women.
- She could tell he intended to pick up on her.
- (transitive, or, intransitive) To answer a telephone. See pick up the phone.
- I'm calling him, but he just isn't picking up!
- Of a signal, to receive.
- With the new antenna, I can stations all the way from Omaha.
- To pay for.
- The company will lunch with customers for sales calls.
Translations: - French: prendre (ex: l'appel)
- Spanish: contestar
(trans-bottom)
(trans-top, Of a signal, to receive)
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