pick out

Meaning

1. To remove by picking.
2. To select.
3. To distinguish; discern.
4. To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.
5. To detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste).
6. To send a long pass or cross to.
7. To play music slowly, such as when practicing.

Concepts

pick out

choose

select

elect

extricate

opt

pick

pick up

single out

take out

appoint

take

distinguish

spot

connote

demonstrate

denote

designate

display

indicate

manifest

mark

motion

point out

show

suggest

cull

extract

sort out

discern

make out

recognise

recognize

tell apart

pluck

remove

fish out

prefer

produce

throw out

assort

cull from

dig out

screen

draw

gouge out

pluck out

garble

sort

charge off

disallowance

rejection

clean

pull out

like

detect

acquire

find

note

observe

perceive

see

sense

take notice

pick off

reap

take off

split

poke out

name

defend

knock

monopoly

ridicule

lift

cut

cut out

scoop out

Etymology

From pick + out. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpikke (“to pick out”), Dutch uitpikken (“to pick out”).