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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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" [syn: choose, take, select, pick out]
2: 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" [syn: spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1540 1. discern, make out 2. to play the notes of by ear or one by one <picking out tunes on the piano>

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. 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'. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 2. 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 PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. 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 PHRASAL VERB: usu passive, be V-ed P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

1. Select, cull, choose, single out, fix upon, pitch upon, extract. 2. Mark out, variegate.

Moby Thesaurus

abscind, abstract, address to, advert to, allude to, amputate, analyze, annihilate, assign, avulse, ban, bar, be taken as, behold, bob, bolt, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to, cast off, cast out, catch sight of, choose out, chuck, cite, clap eyes on, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull, cull out, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, decide between, demarcate, demark, denominate, denote, deport, deracinate, descry, designate, determine, differentiate, dig out, dig up, direct attention to, direct to, discern, discover, discriminate, disentangle, dispose of, distinguish, divide, dock, draw, draw out, draw the line, dredge, dredge up, eject, elect, elide, eliminate, emblematize, enucleate, eradicate, espy, evolve, evulse, excavate, except, excerpt, excise, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, exsect, extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, figure, finger, fix, focus on, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, ghettoize, gin, glean, glimpse, gouge out, grub up, handpick, have in sight, indicate, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, ken, knock off, lay aside, lay eyes on, liquidate, look on, look upon, lop, make a selection, make out, mark, mark the interface, mention, mine, mutilate, name, nip, notice, observe, opt for, outlaw, pare, peel, perceive, pick, pick out, pin down, pluck out, pluck up, point at, point out, point to, prefer, prune, pull, pull out, pull up, purge, put aside, quarantine, quarry, rake out, recognize, refer to, remove, riddle, rip out, root out, root up, rule out, screen, screen out, seclude, see, segregate, select, separate, set, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, shave, shear, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sight, signify, single out, sort, sort out, specialize, specify, split hairs, spot, spy, stamp out, stand for, state, stigmatize, stipulate, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, subdivide, subtilize, symbol, symbolize, take in, take off, take out, tear out, thrash, thresh, throw over, throw overboard, touch on, truncate, twig, typify, unearth, unravel, uproot, view, weed out, winnow, wipe out, withdraw, witness, wrest out