pickup
IPA: pˈɪkʌp
noun
- An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
- In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
- Electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations.
- (usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.
- An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.
- A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
- (sports) In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
- (video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
- (US, Canada, politics) The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate.
- The act of answering a telephone.
- (film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
- The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
- (uncountable) A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
- (uncountable) The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
- (uncountable) The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
- A surname.
- (US, Canada) Ellipsis of pickup truck. [(chiefly Canada, US, Singapore) A light truck with an open cargo bed.]
verb
- Misspelling of pick up. [(transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.]
pick up
IPA: pˈɪkˈʌp
verb
- (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
- (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
- (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease).
- (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
- (transitive) To collect a passenger.
- (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
- (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
- (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
- (intransitive) To restart or resume.
- (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
- (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
- (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on
- (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
- (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
- (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
- To pay for.
- To reduce the despondency of.
- To take control (physically) of something.
- (soccer) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
- To record; to notch up.
- (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul.
- (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
pick-up
IPA: pˈɪkʌp
noun
- Alternative form of pickup [An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.]
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Examples of "pickup" in Sentences
Examples of "pick-up" in Sentences
- Following a two-episode pick-up in September, Parenthood's Season 3 stands at 18 episodes.
- We've had a little bit of line pick-up, which is probably indicative of lift in the market, lift from the economic activity.
- Harden, who was attached to ABC's comedy pilot Smothered, which failed to get a pick-up last season, will next guest-star on NBC's new comedy Bent.
- Anyway, I'm talking about very remote, i.e. 4 or 5 hours by bus then a few miles in the back of the town's pick-up truck, to get there from Oaxaca City.
- That increases the temptation for insurers to enter into risky-product pricing to attract new business, betting on a medium-term pick-up in interest rates.
- Reboundling, executive-produced by Levitan, is an uplifting comedy about a man recovering from the death of his fiancée with the help of the idiots on his pick-up basketball team.
- Got to get this one the night before ... cut off bottom 3 inches of a water bottle, fill with water, and carefully place in the visor of the victims pick-up - any bump or a good stop with leave your buddy with a lap full of water.
- But a decline in other Asian markets following Japan's credit ratings downgrade by Moody's and a pick-up in derivatives positions settlement toward the closing stages hurt our markets, said Kishor Ostwal , managing director at CNI Research Ltd.
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