Pick-out Definition
verb
To select.
2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
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(idiomatic) To distinguish.
Apr 30, 1988, Toronto Star - Bonaventure Island a birdwatcher's delight 50,000 gannets jostle and spar for a piece of the islandThe 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.
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(idiomatic) 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.
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