TO PICK OUT

Definition: TO PICK OUT

TO PICK OUT

1. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: TO PICK OUT

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

It's the custom at these graduations to pick out some old duck like me to preach to the kids. (Carousel; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; Oscar Hammerstein II)

Please don't tell me you called me out of a wedding to pick out a suit! (Two Weeks Notice; writing credit: Marc Lawrence)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: TO PICK OUT

Language		Translations for "TO PICK OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		aussuchen (choose, pick, pick on, pick out, select, sort out, to choose). (various references)

Hungarian		kiszemel (choose, cull, mark out, pick out, single out, to cull, to pick on, to prick, to single out), kiolvas, kiókumlál (to figure out, to figure up), hallás után eljátszik, felismer (distinguish, identify, perceive, recognize, to awake to, to identify, to peg, to perceive, to recognize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		取り出す (to produce, to take out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひろいあ�'る (to pick up), つまみ� す (to throw out), より� す (to select), とり� す (to produce, to take out), えり� す (to select), えらび� す (to select). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay ickpay outay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Ancestral Language Translations: TO PICK OUT

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	eligo. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	trier. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Anagrams: TO PICK OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-k-o-o-p-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: copout, octopi, ptotic, uptick.
	-4 letters: coopt, optic, picot, potto, putti, putto, topic, topoi, tupik.
	-5 letters: cook, coop, coot, coup, koto, otic, otto, pick, pock, poco, pout, puck, putt, tick, toit, took, toot, topi, tout, tuck.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-k-o-o-p-t-t-u"
	+2 letters: outpolitick.
	+3 letters: outpoliticks.
	+4 letters: outpoliticked.
	+5 letters: outpoliticking.
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