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pick out is a verb:
- to remove by picking
"1859, Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities" - to select
"2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192" - to distinguish
"Apr 30, 1988, Toronto Star - [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/473614941.html?dids=473614941:473614941&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30%2C+1988&author=Stephen+R.+Swinburne+Special+to+The+Star+(Christian+Science+Monitor)BONAVENTURE+ISLAND%2C+Gaspe%2C+Quebec&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Bonaventure+Island+a+birdwatcher%27s+delight+50%2C000+gannets+jostle+and+spar+for+a+piece+of+the+island&pqatl=google Bonaventure Island a birdwatcher's delight 50,000 gannets jostle and spar for a piece of the island]" - to detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste)
"1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby" - to send a long pass or cross to.
"26 December 2006, 4TheGame - [http://www.4thegame.com/matchcentre/premiership/reports/118409/bwfcnufc.html Bolton Wanderers vs Newcastle United]"
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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- Verb usage: 1859, Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
- Verb usage: Madame Defarge herself picked out the pattern on her sleeve with her toothpick, and saw and heard something inaudible and invisible a long way off.
- Verb usage: 2007, Letticia, Body Worship, page 192
- Verb usage: Very often husbands would patronise my boutique and pick out something for the little lady and, in passing, pick out something for themselves.
- Verb usage: Apr 30, 1988, Toronto Star - [http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/473614941.html?dids=473614941:473614941&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30%2C+1988&author=Stephen+R.+Swinburne+Special+to+The+Star+(Christian+Science+Monitor)BONAVENTURE+ISLAND%2C+Gaspe%2C+Quebec&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Bonaventure+Island+a+birdwatcher%27s+delight+50%2C000+gannets+jostle+and+spar+for+a+piece+of+the+island&pqatl=google Bonaventure Island a birdwatcher's delight 50,000 gannets jostle and spar for a piece of the island]
- Verb usage: The 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.
- Verb usage: 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
- Verb usage: 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.
- Verb usage: 26 December 2006, 4TheGame - [http://www.4thegame.com/matchcentre/premiership/reports/118409/bwfcnufc.html Bolton Wanderers vs Newcastle United]
- Verb usage: Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J...
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pick out are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pick out, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).