Main entry: pick up, percolate, perk, perk up, gain vigor
Definition: gain or regain energy
Usage: I picked up after a nap
Main entry: pick up, turn around
Definition: improve significantly; go from bad to good
Usage: Her performance in school picked up
Main entry: pick up
Definition: lift out or reflect from a background
Usage: The scarf picks up the color of the skirt; His eyes picked up his smile
Main entry: learn, pick up, find out, discover, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, see
Definition: get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
Usage: I learned that she has two grown-up children; I see that you have been promoted
Definition: eat by pecking at, like a bird
Main entry: pick up
Definition: take up by hand
Usage: He picked up the book and started to read
Main entry: collar, pick up, cop, apprehend, arrest, nab, nail
Definition: take into custody
Usage: the police nabbed the suspected criminals
Main entry: intoxicate, elate, pick up, lift up, uplift
Definition: fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
Usage: Music can uplift your spirits
Main entry: pick up
Definition: give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
Usage: We picked up a hitchhiker on the highway
Main entry: lift up, pick up, gather up
Definition: take and lift upward
Definition: register (perceptual input)
Usage: pick up a signal
Definition: perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
Usage: I caught the aroma of coffee; He caught the allusion in her glance; ears open to catch every sound; The dog picked up the scent; Catch a glimpse
Main entry: pick up
Definition: buy casually or spontaneously
Usage: I picked up some food for a snack
Main entry: collect, call for, pick up, gather up
Definition: gather or collect
Usage: You can get the results on Monday; She picked up the children at the day care center; They pick up our trash twice a week
Main entry: pick up
Definition: get in addition, as an increase
Usage: The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home
Main entry: pick up
Definition: meet someone for sexual purposes
Usage: he always tries to pick up girls in bars