Pick Up

Definition: Pick Up

Pick Up

Verb

1. Take and lift upward.

2. Take up by hand; "He picked up the book and started to read".

3. Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift.

4. Gather or collect; "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center".

5. Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted".

6. Get in addition, as an increase; "The candidate picked up thousands of votes after his visit to the nursing home".

7. Take into custody, as of suspected criminals, by the police.

8. Buy casually or spontaneously; "I picked up some food for a snack".

9. Of perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc.

10. : lift out or reflect from a background, as of a color; "The scarf picks up the color of the skirt"; "His eyes picked up his smile".

11. : meet someone for sexual purposes.

12. : fill with high spirits; fill with optimism.

13. : get better; "Her performance in school picked up".

14. : perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily; "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".

15. : eat by pecking at; of birds.

16. : gain or regain energy.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Business

Language

Physics

Public Administration

Transportation

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Synonyms: Pick Up

Choice

Select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow; sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge one;s fancy.

Discovery

Verb: discover, find, determine, evolve, learn; fix upon; pick up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light; dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.

Solve, resolve, elucidate; unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open; pick up, open the lock; find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle; interpret; disclose.

Improvement

Advance; (progress); ascend; increase; fructify, ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover.

Learning

Verb: learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge, gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean knowledge, glean information, glean learning.

Crosswords: Pick Up

They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.)

Gertie, I've gotta go pick up Elliot from school (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Did you just pick up another case (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson)

Or maybe you shouldn't go bringing me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

No. I have to leave early to pick up Caitlin (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

COULD YOU PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL ME AT HOME (Come Back In One Piece; performing artist: Aaliyah)

Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Kick out the devil's sin, pick up, pick up a good book now (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

If you'd pick up that telephone yeah yeah yeah (Telephone Line; performing artist: ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA)

Plottin and lookin and watchin tryna pick up my twist (Get Away; performing artist: Jade)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Once over the hill, you pick up speed. (references; author: unknown)

Sleeping on the job: I wasn’t sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands. (references; author: unknown)

How to Pick Up a Girl (1967)

The Pick Up (2003)

Palmer's Pick Up (1999)

Pick Up (1997)

The Pick Up (1993)

Pick Up Sticks (performing artist: The Dave Brubeck Quartet)

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Books

• How to Pick Up Foreclosures: A Step-By-Step Guide for Getting Super Discounted Property Before the Auction (reference)

• The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss and Perpetuate Sick Organizations (reference)

• How To Pick Up Beautiful Women In Nightclubs or Any Other Place: Secrets Every Man Should Know (reference)

• Pick Up Your Socks...and Other Skills Growing Children Need! (reference)

• The Berenstain Bears Pick Up and Put Away (Book and Plush Gift Set) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Pick Up (reference)

• Pick Up on This! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Ontel Products GOPMO2 Deluxe Gopher Pick Up and Reaching Tool Set (reference)

• Precidio Pick Up Sticks Martini Glasses, Set of 4 (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Municipal workers pick up old tires to remove potential mosquito breeding sites, Laredo, Texas. Credit: CDC.

Planting a hydrophone anchor with the cable attached On the GUIDE Hydrophone would pick up sound from RAR TNT explosion. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Rincon Grande Ranch in the Falkland Islands - the SHACKLETON came here to pick up sheep carcasses for supplying Antarctic bases. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Contaminated materials that were deposited and then released during a severe thunderstorm caused trees to pick up the copper and release it through their sap. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

4H members pick up trash from a school yard. Credit: USDA.

"A Junction City boy scout from troupe #334 finds more than garbage to pick up". Credit: Saundra Miles.

Don't worry about what you'll pick up at work. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes, depicting the explosion of depth charges from USS Hammann (DD-412) as she sank alongside USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the afternoon of 6 June 1942. Both ships were torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 while Hammann was assisting with the salvage of Yorktown. USS Vireo (AT-144) is shown at left, coming back to pick up survivors, as destroyers head off to search for the submarine. Credit: NAVY.

On my first trip, which was highly interesting, I managed to pick up a few things in the agricultural line. Credit: Library of Congress.

Go back and pick up your gun!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In political practice, therefore, they join in all coercive measures against the working class; and in ordinary life, despite their high falutin phrases, they stoop to pick up the golden apples dropped from the tree of industry, and to barter truth, love, and honour for traffic in wool, beetroot-sugar, and potato spirits. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Once, on a moonlight night, Cosette stooped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and displayed the rounding of her bosom

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Health

Like ascarids, people pick up hookworms as a result of unsanitary conditions. (references)

If your hearing aid is in the "T" position, this coil is activated when you pick up the phone. (references)

Antennas within the MRI machine pick up the radio waves within and feed them into a computer which assembles a picture. (references)

Business

Demand for construction should pick up gradually as the economic conditions improve. (references)

As the region improves and local currencies pick up, U.S. imports should see their figures further improve. (references)

However, demand was expected to pick up by late 2000 and should grow approximately five percent for the next two years. (references)

Children

Saudi Arabia

However, there were reports that police pick up mentally ill persons for minor violations, detain them for a few weeks, and then release them, only to detain them again later for similar violations. (references)

Civil Liberties

Dominican Republic

Although citizens of all political persuasions generally exercise unhindered freedom of speech, on occasion police took action to restrict it. For example, in July police flew a helicopter to Barahona to pick up an outspoken critic of a government aqueduct project. (references)

Economic History

Peru

The government's estimate for the 2001 current account deficit in the multi-annual macroeconomic framework (MMF) is 2.6% of GDP. Direct investment has plummeted by 17% between 1999 and the first half of 2001 as a result of political turmoil, but was expected to pick up in the second half of 2001 following installation of the new five-year government. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

During one such sweep in May, police arrested approximately 1,400 suspects; Nairobi Police Chief Geoffrey Mwathe announced that he had directed a "massive operation to pick up all known criminals for known offenses and unknown offenses" and admitted that some innocent people were "likely to suffer." Security forces monitored closely the activities of dissidents, following or otherwise harassing them. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

They reportedly requested that he accuse RDR spokesperson Ally Coulibaly of asking him to pick up weapons at Coulibaly's house in Niemene for a coup in Abidjan. (references)

Central African Republic

Medical staff have confirmed that members of the OCRB often took the bodies of persons they have executed to the hospital and left them for the family to pick up. The OCRB's use of extrajudicial killing had both official government and popular support and was seen as an effective means of reducing crime and increasing public security. (references)

Political Economy

SWEDEN

Sweden's export sector is strong, resulting in large trade balance surpluses and solid current account surpluses since 1994. Domestic demand started to pick up in 1997 and has contributed to the growth since that year. (references)

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Thus despite signs that economic activity had begun to pick up in the third quarter, growth for the year is likely to be minimal. (references)

Travel

Korea

Even though these two bus services are substantially cheaper than taking a taxi to Incheon airport, passengers must factor in extra time, given the additional stops to pick up passengers at the various hotels. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

In October 2000, taxi drivers were warned by the PVSV not to pick up unaccompanied female passengers at risk of having their driving privileges revoked. (references)

Worker Rights

Thailand

Illegal immigrants generally are repatriated as soon as possible; however, in order to implement the new policy of special treatment for victims of trafficking, Department of Public Welfare (DOPW) officials try to pick up underage and illegally entered women arrested for prostitution and house them in one of the government shelter houses. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "pick up": pick up a bargain ♦ pick up a language ♦ pick up a livehood ♦ pick up a living ♦ pick up a living by ♦ pick up again ♦ pick up arm ♦ pick up courage ♦ pick up from smb. ♦ pick up health ♦ pick up holes ♦ pick up knowledge ♦ pick up one's strenght ♦ pick up one's strength ♦ pick up only ♦ pick up reaction ♦ pick up scent ♦ pick up sides ♦ pick up smb. ♦ pick up speed ♦ pick up steam ♦ pick up strength ♦ pick up the bill ♦ pick up the gauntlet ♦ pick up the glove ♦ pick up the phone ♦ pick up the pieces ♦ pick up the scent ♦ pick up the story ♦ pick up the tab ♦ pick up with ♦ to pick up. Additional references.

Afrikaans

versamel (collect, gather, pick), optel (get, lay, lay hold of, pick, take), oppik (get, lay, lay hold of, pick, take), oplaai (meet), bymekaarbring (collect, gather, join, pick, unite). (various references)

Albanian

peshkoj (angler, dap, fish), përmirësohem (gain, get better, get over, improve oneself, look up), vazhdoj (carry on, carry over, continue, extend, go ahead, go on, hold on, hold over, keep, keep on, maintain, press on, proceed, prosecute, pursue, push on, run, spread), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up), mbledh (accumulate, add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), marr (accede, acquire, assume, bring, catch, claim, collect, contract, draw, get, have, land, make, obtain, occupy, possess, realize, receive, score, take, take in, take out), kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, tackle, take, track down, unhang), hipi dikë në makinë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pall, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revitalize, revive), ‏نشط (activate, active, animate, bestir oneself, brisk, buoyant, elevate, ginger, harden, hum, invigorate, live, liven, pep up, perk up, practising, pushing, quick, quicken, reactivate, rekindle, revive, rouse, stimulate, stringent, strong, vivify, waken), ‏حفر (bore, burrow, burrowing, dig, digging, digging in, ditch, drill, drilling, etch, excavate, excavation, fetch, fossilize, gnaw, grave, hew, inscribe, make a hole in, pit, plough, rut, scrape, sink), ‏حمل الركاب, ‏تعلم (education, impart, learn, learning, study), ‏تعرف لأصدقاء, ‏علا (overlie, surmount, tower), ‏إلتقط (contract, glean, lock onto, pick, pick up smb.), ‏إقتنى (catch hold of), ‏إستعاد صحته (pull round), ‏إستانف (take back), ‏إعتقل (apprehend, arrest, be detained, lag, lock up, nab, restrain, seize, sneeze), ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, heighten, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift). (various references)

Blackfoot

o'kaasat (to pick up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вдигам се (clear away, get up, heave, lift, rear, revolt, rise), изваждам (abstract, bring on, bring out, deduct, draw, draw out, drive out, eject, excerpt, extract, fetch, fish out, gouge, knock out, lay out, move out, oust, pick, pull, put out, subduct, subtract, take away, take from, take out, turn up, uncase, unpin, unship, whip out), изтеглям (draft, draw, drive up, elongate, pull, pull out, withdraw), подобрявам се (amend, change for the better, gain, progress), попадам на (encounter, fall on, fall upon, find, happen on, run across, strike on, turn up), повдигам (boost, bring up, elevate, give a lift, heave, heft, increase, key up, levitate, lift, moot, prefer, present, pull up, raise, rear, start, take up, throw up, tip over, underlay, up, uplift, upraise), придобивам (acquire, contract, get, harvest, have, purchase, take on, work up), прихващам (clasp, contract), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, attach, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), запознавам се случайно (get off), засилвам се (accelerate, gather strength, intensify, recruit, strengthen, tone up), минавам да взема, научавам (acquire, hear, learn, read up, teach, understand), докарвам си (bring in, pull down), вдигам (carry away, carry off, elevate, flush, get up, heave, heft, hoist, hold up, kick up, lift, pull up, purchase, put up, raise, rear, rouse, run up, take up, tip up, up), събирам си багажа, вземам (borrow, cover, fetch, get, got, gotten, levy, load, partake, pot, retake, take, take away, take in, take up), възстановявам се (convalesce, recruit, recuperate, regenerate, ride again), купувам (book, bought, buy, cop, deal, get, invest, purchase, trade), чувам (hear, lend an ear, understand), хващам (capture, catch, clamp, find out, get, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, hook, hunt down, land, nail, nip, nobble, pot, prey upon, run down, seize, snag, strike, take, take effect, take up, track down), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, penetrate, perceive, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), разменям (barter, change, chop, exchange, negotiate, swap, swop, trade, trade off, truck), разкопавам с търнокоп, разтребвам (clean, clear up, do, put away, tidy), улавям (catch, catch out, clutch, detect, entrap, get, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, mesh), схващам (apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, discover, get, get a hold of, grasp, note, perceive, see, sense, take in, twig, understand), събирам разпилени вещи, отивам да взема (call for, fetch, get). (various references)

Catalan

buscar (fetch, get). (various references)

Chinese 

揀 (choose), 拾 (ten), �'� (collect, gather), 摭 (to select). (various references)

Czech

zvednout (elevate, heave, hoist, hold up, improve, lift, pick(up), put up, raise, rise, take up), zotavit se (convalesce, get better, mend, recover, recreate, recuperate, refresh), získat (acquire, cajole, capture, carry off, come by, conciliate, drum up, elicit, enlist, gain, get, make, notch up, obtain, piece up, procure, pull, raise, score, secure, take, win), seznámit se (become acquainted), sebrat se (brace up, compose oneself, pull oneself together), sebrat (compile, dig up, gather up, nab, pouch, raise, rally, scoop up, take in, take up), oživit se, nabýt (acquire, attain, distend, win), chytit (capture, catch, catch fire, clutch, field, get, grasp, ignite, light, seize, take, take a fire, take fire). (various references)

Danish

tage op (get, lay hold of, take), tage (get, lay hold of, take), samle (collect, gather), hente (fetch, get). (various references)

Dutch

plukken (collect, gather, pick, pluck, tear off), pick-up (pickup truck), pakken (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, get, grapple, lay hold of, pack, package, take, wrap up), ophalen (inhale, lever, lift, meet, raise, take up), aanvatten (get, lay hold of, take), afhalen (abide, await, deduct, expect, meet, string, take along, take away, take up, wait, wait for), collecteren (collect, gather), contact zoeken (chum up, strike up an acquaintance), gaan halen (fetch, get), halen (catch, fetch, get, hit, run across, send for, strike), innen (cash, collect, gather, take in), inzamelen (collect, gather), komen halen (meet, take up), aanpappen (chum up, strike up an acquaintance), oogsten (collect, gather, harvest), weergeefkop (magnetic reading head, magnetic reproducing head, phonograph pick up, playback head), oprapen (get, lay hold of, pick, pluck, take), optrekken (accelerate, separate), rapen (collect, gather), schakingsreactie (pick up reaction), vatten (captivate, capture, catch, frame, get, grapple, grasp, lay hold of, realize, take, understand), versnellen (accelerate, advance, speed up), verzamelen (collect, gather), nemen (get, lay hold of, take). (various references)

Esperanto

preni (get, lay hold of, take), venpreni (meet, take up), veni por akompani (meet), serĉi kontakton (chum up, strike up an acquaintance), kolekti (collect, gather), irpreni (fetch, get), akceliĝi (accelerate). (various references)

Faeroese

taka (conquer, detain, get, hold back, lay hold of, retain, take), savna (collect, gather). (various references)

Finnish

ottaa (draw, get, lay hold of, remove, take, take away, take off), oppia (acquire, learn), nostaa (draw, hoist, lever, lift, raise, take up), kerätä (amass, assemble, collect, gather), iskeä (bump, deliver a blow, hit, hit hard, knock, strike), elpyä (rally, recover, revive). (various references)

French

recueillir, ramasser (pick, pile up), prendre, pick-up (pickup), collectionner, capter (pick up smb.). (various references)

Frisian

sammelje (collect, gather), nimme (get, lay hold of, take), ôfhelje (meet, take along). (various references)

German

nehmen (adopt, bereave, block, book, catch, charge, draw, engage, get, grasp, handle, have, hurdle, lay hold of, measure up, negotiate, overcome, relieve, seize, take, take away, take on, take out, to take, treat, use), holen (catch, fetch, get, get over, hoist, send for, summon, to fetch, win). (various references)

Greek 

μαζεύω (collect, furl, gather, marsh, mass, muster, pick, rasie an army, shrink, wipe up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רים (elevate, hold up, lift, raise, rear, up), לרכוש (acquire, appropriate, catch hold of, collect, come by, get hold of, obtain, procure, purchase, secure). (various references)

Hungarian

vesz (bought, buy, get, lay hold of, oppress, press, purchase, squeeze, take, take over, taken, to buy, to commune, to fence, to gibe, to list, to nick, to put in an appearance, to re-enter, to scorn, to take, to wed, took), véletlen ismeretség (pickup, pick-up), lejátszófej (pick-up, pick-up head), felvevõ (pick off), felvétel (admission, affiliation, college entrance, enrollment, enrolment, entrance, footing, getting into, intake, pull up, reception, recording, snapshot, transcription, uplift to, uptake), felszed kocsival, felfedés (coverage, exposure, location), felderítés (clarification, detection, discovery, exploration, intelligence, intelligence activities, intelligence service, ranging, recce, reccy, recon, reconnaissance, reconnoitring, scan, scout, scouting, spotting, surveillance), felcsíp (snap up, to pick up), elsajátít (acquire, learn, to acquire, to imbibe, to pick up), elfogás (apprehension, capture, intercept, interception, lock on), csákánnyal feltör (to pick up), észlelés (cognition, cognizance, detection, location, observation, perception, sighting), érzékelõ elem (pick off). (various references)

Indonesian

menggapit, mengangkat (adopt, appoint, assign, carry, designate, doff, elevate, heave, lift, nab, promote, raise, take up), memunguti (collect many things), memungut (collect, glean, harvest, quote), jemput (pinch). (various references)

Italian

ritirare (abstract, collect, draw, draw back, evacuate, recede, retire, retract, seclude, shrink, subside, take, take away, throw again, to withdraw, withdraw), raccogliere (collect, collect one's thoughts, crop, gather, harvest, harvests, make a collection of, pick, pull, raise, rally, reap, recollect, save, scoop, scoop up, sweep up, take in), prendere (assume, be taken, buy, captivate, capture, catch, charge, earn, employ, engage, fetch, gather, get, grapple, grasp, grip, have, lay, lay hold of, seize, subsume, take, take along, to take). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

アウトライト取引 (lift, outlaw, outlet, outline, outright transaction). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

アウフヘーベン (lift). (various references)

Malay

mengumpulkan (collect, gather), kumpulkan (collect, gather), ambil ... mengambil (bring, fetch, get). (various references)

Manx

troggal (arise, boost, breed, breeding, bring off, bringing up, build, building, buzz off, construct, contract, contract as disease, contraction, development, edifice, elaborate, elaboration, elevate, freshen, freshen of wind, gather up, getting up, harvest, heave, heave as shoulders, hoist, input, invoke, lift, lifting, nurture, pick off; absorption, pull in, put up, raise, raise up, rally, rear, rearing, rig up, rise, set in rows, sing up, structure, take, train, train as child, winch, wind, winding), glackeyder (catcher, fielder, receiver, taker). (various references)

Norwegian

ta (get, go, lay hold of, take). (various references)

Papiamen

kolektá (collect, gather). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickpay upay.(various references)

Polish

wziąć (get, lay hold of, take), brać (get, lay hold of, take). (various references)

Portuguese

pegar (catch, get, grasp, grip, hold, lay hold of, nag, seize), colher (berry, collect, crop, drag out, garner, gather, gather a crop, gather a harvest, harvest, pick, pick off, pluck, pull, reap, reap a harvest, spoon, tear off). (various references)

Romanian

cumpãrãturã reuşitã, aderenţã (adherence, adhesion), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop), autofurgonetã, braţ de picup, cãpãta (acquire, assume, coax, come by, come in for, come into, contract, derive, earn, find, get, make, obtain, purchase, receive, take on), cadou primit pe neaşteptate, ciuguli (nibble, nip, Peck, pick, piddle, preen), înviorare (freshness), culege (collect, compose, crop, cull, gather, glean, mow, pick, pluck, reap, set up, take up), trece dupã, cunoştinţã întâmplãtoare, desface (cleave, disassemble, disconnect, disentangle, dismantle, dissolve, free, knock down, loose, loosen, open, outstretch, pry, sever, sprawl, spread, unbind, uncouple, undo, unfold, unfurl, unlace, unloose, unravel, unrig, untie), dispozitiv de prindere (fixture), lua (acquire, assume, assume a name, book, bring, catch, clasp, clear away, confiscate, conquer, contact, contract, draw, extract, finger, form, get, have, hire, interpret, jerk off, keep off, lay hands on, lay hold of, load, Mount, nim, pick, pocket, pouch, receive, snatch, start, take), restabilire (recovery, recruital, recruitment, redintegration, re-establishment, rehabilitation, reinstatement, restoration, retrieval, retrieve), ridica (advance, aggrandize, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), colecta (bag, collect, gather). (various references)

Russian 

собрать (collect, gather), собирать (amass, assemble, build up, collect, congregate, convene, convoke, cull, erect, gather, get together, levy, make up, pick, raise, scoop in, scoop up), соб (personal), разрыхлять (loosen, mellow, pick, pickax), взять (get, lay hold of, take), нахватать (grab, seize), брать (get, jump, lay hold of, obtain, seize, take, take in, take on, taken), приобретать (acquire, come by, contract, get ~ hands on, get ~ up to, procure, purchase), подобрать (tuck up), поднимать (boost, draw up, elevate, fly, lift, raise, rear, take up, turn up, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, weigh up), подбирать (assort, filibeg, hand-pick, kilt, pick, tuck up). (various references)

Scottish

thoir (bring, compel, fetch, get, give, lay hold of, persuade, take, take : thoir air), gabh (accept, admit of, get, go, lay hold of, proceed, receive, sing, take). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokupiti, podići (boost, elevate, inflate, lift, pass under, pull up, put up, raise, rear, uplift, upraise), poboljšati (ameliorate, better, get better, go one better, improve, meliorate, upgrade), uzeti (get, hire, take, take away), uhapsiti (arrest, bust up, detain, immure, imprison, incarcerate, nab, pinch, pull in, quod, run in), naučiti (learn, teach, train), nabaviti (acquire, buy, procure, purchase). (various references)

Spanish

coger (accept, arrest, bag, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clutch, cop, develop, fetch, frig, gather, get, get hold of, go down, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hit off, hold, hook, hunch, imbibe, land, lay hold of, lift, nab, nail, nobble, pick, pinch, pluck, seize, take, take on, take out, take up, toss, touch, treat, trip, trip up, yank off), recoger (bring in, catch, collect, fold, furl, garner, gather, gather in, gather up, get, get in, glean, harvest, lay hold of, lift, pick, rake in, reap, reclaim, repossession, scavenge, scoop up, secure, take, take in, take up), buscar (ferret, fetch, forage for, get, go after, home in on, Hunt, hunt for, hunt out, hunt up, investigate, lay hold of, look, look for, look out, look out for, look round, look up, pick, prospect for, pursue, quest, scout for, scrounge around for, search, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, take, to look for, turn up), tomar (accept, catch, draw, draw in, drink, eat, engulf, get, have, impound, lay hold of, lift out, live, live off, live on, live through, receive, reduce, strike, swallow up, take, take in, take on, take out, take up, take upon, taking, throw out, to have, to take, touch, treat, understand), ir por (fetch, get, go for, take), ir a buscar a (meet, take along). (various references)

Sranan

teki (get, lay hold of, take), dyunta (collect, gather). (various references)

Swedish

ta upp (collect, incept, levy, lift, put on, take up). (various references)

Tagalog

kúnin (get, lay hold of, take). (various references)

Turkish

toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), almak (accept, accomplish, achieve, acquire, admit, assume, attain, borrow, buy, capture, collect, come in, conquer, divest smb. of, draw, enter on, enter upon, enucleate, excise, extract, fetch, gain, garner, get, govern, have, help oneself to, hold, induct, lay hold of, let in, obtain, occupy, pull off, purchase, put on, receive, seat, seize, sweep off, take, take from, take in, take on, take over, take up, to buy, withdraw, wreak). (various references)

Turkmen 

gцtermek, зцplemek (collect, gather). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпушувати (clot, prong), заїжджати (come around, fetch). (various references)

Welsh

cymryd (accept, get, lay hold of, take), crapio (grapple). (various references)

Yucatec

bisik (get, lay hold of, take). (various references)

Zulu

-thatha (get, lay hold of, take), -landa (fetch, get). (various references)

capere, collecta, collectae, collectam, collecti, collectis, collecto, collectos, collectum, collectus, collegerimus, collegeris, collegerunt, collegi, collegissent, collegisset, collegisti, collegit, colleximus, collexistis, colligam, colligant, colligas, colligat, colligatis, colligatur, colligebant, colligebat, colligendas, colligendi, colligendum, colligens, colligent, colligentem, colligentes, colligentur, colligere, colligerent, colligeret, colligeris, colliges, colligesque, colliget, colligetur, colligimus, colligit, colligite, colligitur, colligo, colligunt, colliguntur, conligare. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pickup.

-2 letters: pick, puck.

-3 letters: cup, ick, kip, pic, pip, piu, pup.

-4 letters: pi, up.

+1 letter: pickups.