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Definition: Pickup |
PickupNoun1. A light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard. 2. (informal) a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man". 3. Anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her". 4. A casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships. 5. The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup". 6. Mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge. 7. An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable. 8. The act or process of picking up or collecting from various places: "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays". 9. The act of taking aboard passengers or freight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pickup" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
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Aerospace | 1. A device that converts a sound, scene, or other form of intelligence into corresponding electric signals (e.g., a microphone, a television camera, or a phonograph pickup). 2. The minimum current, voltage, power, or other value at which a relay will complete its intended function.3. Interference from a nearby circuit or electrical system. (references) |
Business | A light truck having an open body with low sides and tailboard mounted usu. on a passenger car chassis. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Syn. for lift, as applied to hoisting drill rods from a borehole b. An angular crosscut, through which coal is hauled from one entry to another. See also:shoo-fly c. See:geophone; detector. d. Transfer of metal from tools to a part, or from a part to tools, during a forming operation e. In Alaska, a gold nugget picked up during mining operations prior tosluicing. (references) |
Shipping | The act of calling for freight by truck at the consignor's shipping platform. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Stringed instruments such as the electric guitar, electric bass guitar and others, are often equipped with electromagnetic pickups to capture the vibrations from the strings and convert them to an electronic signal which can be amplified or recorded.Electromagnetic pickups use the principal of electromagnetic induction. The pickup consists of a permanent magnet wrapped with many turns of fine wire. The pickup is mounted on the body of the instrument, close to the strings. When the instrument's strings vibrate in the magnetic field of the permanent magnet, a current is induced in the wire wrapped around the magnet. The signal created is then carried to amplification or recording equipment via a cable (or radio transport).
One problem with electromagnetic pickups is that--along with the musical signal--they also pick up a fair amount of mains hum. Mains hum consists of a fundamental signal at a nominal 50 or 60 Hz, depending on where you are in the world, and often some harmonic content. A variant of the pickup is the "humbucking" pickup, first developed by the Gibson company. A humbucking pickup is nothing more than two standard pickups wired together in series. However, the magnets of the two pickups are reversed in polarity, and the windings are also reversed. Thus, any hum or other extraneous noise that is picked up is immediately cancelled out, while the musical signal is reinforced.
More recently, semi-acoustic and acoustic guitars have been fitted with piezoelectric pickups instead of or in addition to magnetic pickups. These have a very different sound which some prefer, and also have the advantage of not picking up unwanted magnetic fields, such as mains hum and feedback from hearing-aid loops.
A pickup is a small truck used by both business and consumers.
A pickup is a scene which is filmed after the main production of a film has finished and which will be edited into the rest. see also film theory.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pickup."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PICKUP | English | Professional,Industrial and Commercial Updating Programme | Computing, Education |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: PickupSynonyms: cartridge (n), getaway (n), pick-me-up (n), pickup arm (n), pickup truck (n), tone arm (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Acquisition | Verb: acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect; (assemble); pick, pickup; glean. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Of course it's got a lot of pickup (The Blues Brothers; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd ; John Landis) Ha ha. From the guy who steals my pickup, who drinks (The Wizard; writing credit: David Chisholm) That's cause you are a kid. You'll pickup a few question marks as you go along (Stingray; writing credit: Gary DeVore; Jimmy Huston) I've seen more of this state's poor cowboys, miners, railroaders and Indians go broke buyin' pickup trucks (Rancho Deluxe; writing credit: Thomas McGuane) | |
Lyrics | With a pink carnation and a pickup truck (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) You ever try your luck with a pickup line (Barenaked; performing artist: Jennifer Love Hewit) Billy pierced his ears, drove a pickup like a lunatic, ooh (YOUNG TURKS; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Pickup on 101 (1972) Ensenada Pickup (1971) Three Pickup Men for Herrick (1957) Pickup on South Street (1953) Negative Pickup (2003) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gypsy the Watchman - or where dogs rode before pickup trucks Triangulation party of E. W. Eickelberg. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Shoran antenna dismantled prior to launch pickup Launch off of EXPLORER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | AML Glass Butte, Burns District. Abandoned pickup truck. Credit: John Craig. |  | "A BLM pickup is ready to haul off trash collected from a dump site on BLM land". Credit: Saundra Miles. |
 | Is towed toward USS Kearsarge (CVS-33) for pickup, after its orbital flight with astronaut (Commander, USN) Walter Schirra on board, 16 October 1962. Note rescue swimmer on the capsule's flotation collar, and a Kearsarge 26-foot motor whaleboat standing by. Credit: NAVY. |  | Plan view of the after part of the ship, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 July 1942. Note the ship's 5"/38 gun mounts, life rafts and depth charges; Navy pickup truck (serial # 13125) and "Classic Cleaners" delivery van on the pier; and USS Chester (CA-27) in the background. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Milk can and pail for pickup truck near Santa Maria, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | 29 Ford pickup, runs good |
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Health | Don’t ride in the back of jeeps, pickup trucks or other open vehicles. (references) | |
Business | Cars, mini-vans, sport utility vehicles and light pickup trucks imported from North America represent 35 percent of the total car population. (references) | |
One factor that must not be overlooked is that Greece neither had the manufacturing inclination to this type of production nor was it a low labor cost country for such an industry to pickup. (references) | ||
If it is not taxpayers which pickup the bill for the nuclear generators, it is possible that KEPCO could use its control over transmission to ensure that its nuclear generators operate, thereby recovering the money necessary to pay back the loans taken out to build them. This would obviously raise cries of market manipulation and could add instability to the industry. (references) | ||
Economic History | Singapore | However, with the expected pickup in the regional economies, it is expected that the import and re-export trade of high value vegetables will increase, significantly. (references) |
Moldova | The pickup in foreign trade continued well into the first quarter of 2001, with exports increasing 20.3 percent and imports 10.7 percent. (references) | |
Travel | West Bank | Most visitors hire a taxi in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem to travel to the Erez crossing-point into Gaza and then have a local Gaza contact send a car for pickup on the Gaza side. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I don't own a pickup truck or a van, and frankly, people who do scare me. |
Rush Limbaugh | The bottom line of the study, which is published in Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is that parents with a choice of vehicles should not use compact pickup trucks. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Pickup" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.38% of the time. "Pickup" is used about 272 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.38% | 254 | 18,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.51% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.74% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 272 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "pickup" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Pickup | Last name | 300 | 29,827 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "pickup": acoustic pickup ♦ crystal pickup ♦ garbage pickup ♦ pickup arm ♦ pickup dinner ♦ pickup point ♦ pickup truck ♦ pickup van ♦ proximity pickup ♦ television pickup tube ♦ trash pickup. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "pickup": magnetic-pickup. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
f 150 pickup truck | 1,439 | chevrolet pickup | 113 |
pickup truck | 1,393 | pickup truck cap | 109 |
pickup line | 841 | pickup tool box | 98 |
pickup | 738 | ford pickup part | 88 |
funny pickup line | 319 | pickup toppers | 85 |
pickup truck accessory | 270 | pickup truck tool box | 81 |
used pickup truck | 258 | pickup part | 76 |
toyota pickup | 249 | pickup bed liner | 72 |
pickup camper | 225 | chevy pickup part | 71 |
used pickup | 203 | toyota pickup part | 69 |
ford pickup | 203 | gmc pickup | 68 |
emg pickup | 191 | bad pickup line | 66 |
dodge pickup | 186 | ford pickup truck | 65 |
guitar pickup | 156 | best pickup line | 64 |
pickup accessory | 148 | pickup truck camper | 64 |
chevy pickup | 142 | pickup truck bed cover | 62 |
pickup view.greetings.yahoo.com | 136 | pickup for sale | 61 |
nissan pickup | 136 | used pickup truck for sale | 56 |
pickup truck rental | 123 | nissan pickup part | 52 |
pickup bed cover | 114 | mazda pickup | 51 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "pickup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pije (beverage, cup, drink, guzzle, hooker, liquor, orgeat, pick me up, quencher, rinse, tipple), përmirësim (amelioration, amendment, betterment, development, elevation, enhancement, improvement, melioration, progress, rally, reclamation, refinement, reform, reformation, rise, upswing, upturn), sistem ritransmetimi, marrje (acquirement, assumption, jaw, metering, receipt, reception, recipiency, seizure, taking), kamionçinë (Van, waggon, wagon), i njohur i rastit. (various references) | |
Arabic | مرتجل (ad lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extemporized, impromptu, improvised, off hand), نقطة التقاء, حالمة الإبرة الفونغرافية, صديق الصدفة, جمع (accumulate, add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), جهاز الإستقبال (receptor), المسافر على الطريق, إنتعاش اقتصادي, إستقبال (desk, levee, reception, rout), إستعادة الصحة, إسراع, شاحنة صغيرة (panel, van), شاحنة خفيفة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | оздравяване (recovery, recuperation), икономически подем, пикап, подобрение (amelioration, amendment, betterment, correction, fertilization, improvement, melioration, progress, rally, retrieval), предавателна тръба, лице взето на автостоп, адаптер (adapter, adaptor), датчик, мембрана (coat, diaphragm, membrane, velum), ускоряване, освежително питие (pick me up), чувствителност (impressionability, irritability, sensibility, sensitivity, sentience, soreness, susceptibility, tenderness), резонатор (resonator, sound box, sounding board), случаен (accidental, adventitious, adventive, arbitrary, by, casual, chance, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, idle, incidental, long, lucky, occasional, odd, precarious, promiscuous, random, sporadic, stray, unplanned, unsystematic), случаен познат, ускорение (acceleration, speed up), звукоснимател. (various references) | |
Chinese | 搭便车. (various references) | |
Czech | přenoska, přejímaný program, zotavení (rally, recovery, recreation, recuperation, refreshment, restoration), dodávka (delivery, supply, waggon, wagon). (various references) | |
Danish | pick-up (collector drum, hay pick-up, pick up, picking attachment, pick-up, pick-up attachment, pick-up cylinder, pick-up head, pickup truck, reproducing head, windrow pick-up attachment), induktiv føler (inductive sensor, inductive-type pickup, movable-core pickup, proximity pickup), åben varevogn (pick up, pickup truck). (various references) | |
Dutch | pick-up (pick up, pickup truck). (various references) | |
Farsi | هرچیزانتخاب شده , چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Cut, Lop, Mow, Pare, Pick, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip, Trim), کردن (Braid, Do, Fold, Gig, Grade, Ground, Hatch, Have, Hinder, Joint, List, Lob, Pass, Peer, Perform, Poop, Ramble, Rest, Set, Settle, Stick, Tag, Thread, Tip), گرفتن (Capture, Catch, Cease, Circle, Detract, Devest, Educe, Engage, Front, Grab, Gripe, Hold, Kindle, Nail, Obtain, Obturate, Snatch, Take, Wed), تجدیدفعالیت (Resurgence), ترقی (Ascent, Boost, Development, Growth, Increase, Increment, Jump, Lift, Procession, Progress, Promotion, Rise), سوارپیکاپ , انتخاب (Choice, Draft, Election), اشناءی تصادفی , رشد (Adolescence, Growth, Increase), دستگاه برقی ناقل صدای گرامافون , بهبودی یافتن (Ameliorate, Convalesce, Gain, Improve, Mend, Pullround, Recover, Recuperate), برداشتن (Delete, Remove, Take). (various references) | |
French | pick-up (pick up), passager ramassé en route, partenaire de rencontre, reprise, remontant (pick me up), rétablissement, lecteur, camionnette (pickup van). (various references) | |
German | Schalldose. (various references) | |
Greek | βελτίωση (amelioration, betterment, improvement, improvement in, meliorate, melioration, refinement, retrieval, upturn), μάζεμα (furl), επιτάχυνση (acceleration, speed up), τυχαία συνάντηση (casual meeting). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משאית קל" (tender), מכיר מקרי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vétel (rádióadásé), véletlen ismeretség (pick up, pick-up), ribanc (bang, bimbo, drab, polecat, slag), kurva (bimbo, bitch, chippy, doxy, drab, harlot, hooker, hustler, laced mutton, prostitute, slag, whore, winchester goose), kisteherautó (pick-up, Van), illegális áru átvétele, hangszedő, gyorsulás (acceleration, pick-up, speed-up), felszedés (lifting, pick-up), erkölcstelen nő (bang, bimbo, bum), alkalmi szexuális partner, alkalmi ismeretség (pick-up). (various references) | |
Italian | Trasduttore di tipo induttivo (inductive sensor, inductive-type pickup, movable-core pickup, proximity pickup), sensore induttivo (inductive sensor, inductive-type pickup, movable-core pickup, proximity pickup), autocarro per colletame (pick up, pickup truck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 変換子 (sensing element). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へ"か"し (sensing element). (various references) | |
Korean | "업. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ickuppay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pechincha (bargain, buy, godsend, haggle, trade), negócio de ocasião, melhora (improvement, rally), escolha de campo, captador sonoro, camioneta (commercial car, delivery van, light lorry), ato de apanhar a bola, aceleração (momentum, racing, speed-up). (various references) | |
Russian | оживление;пикап, адаптер (adapter), подборщик, передающая трубка, пикап (pickup truck). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prikupljanje (gathering), porast (accretion, boost, increase, jump, mark up, multiplication, rise, upgrowth, upsurge), vrsta kamiona, slučajno poznanstvo, kurva (bawd, chippy, hooker, strumpet, whore), hapšenje (arrest, capture, immurement, round up), gramofonska glava. (various references) | |
Spanish | restablecimiento (pullout, recovery, recuperation, re-establishing, re-establishment, resetting, resettlement, restoration, revival), recuperación (rally, reclamation, recovery, recuperation, retrieval), recolección (gathering, harvest, picking, recollection), recogida de la pelota, recogida (capture, post), receptor (receiver, receptor), recepción (desk, levee, receipt, receiving, reception, reservation desk, uptake, welcome), liga (alloy, birdlime, garter, league, lime, suspender, table), ganga (bargain, gift, giveaway, mullock, snip), furgoneta (brake, shooting brake, Van, waggon, wagon), fonocaptor (pick-up head, reproducing head), camioneta de reparto, arresto (apprehension, arrest, detention), aceleración (acceleration, quickness, speed up). (various references) | |
Swedish | varubil, uppgång (bulge, entrance, gain, increase, rise, rising, staircase, upsurge, upswing, upturn, way up), tillfällig bekantskap, något som man plockat upp, mottagning (levee, office, reception, recipiency, surgery), mikrofon (microphone, Mike), liftare (hitchhiker), hoprafsad (scrappy), drink (cocktail, drink, juice, screwdriver), acceleration (acceleration). (various references) | |
Turkish | plakçalar (pick up, record player), pikap (cartridge, pick up, pickup truck, record player, station wagon), kamyonet (goods van, pick up, pickup truck, station wagon, Van), artma (accession, gain, improvement, increase, increment, scaling, step up, swell), av (catch, chase, fowling, Hunt, hunting, kill, killing, prey, quarry, shikar, shoot, shooting, sporting), buluntu şey, canlandırıcı içki (bracer, pick me up), gelişme (advance, advancement, amelioration, budding, development, expansion, flourish, formative, growing, growth, headway, improvement, inflorescence, progress, strides), hızlanma (acceleration, speed up), alıcı (accepter, acceptor, addressee, buyer, client, consignee, consumer, customer, distributee, purchaser, receiver, receiving set, recipient, set, sounder, taker, vendee, wireless receiving set, wireless set), kaldırma (abolition, defeasance, elevation, heave, heaving, hoist, lift, lifting, raising, superelevation, uptake), yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), keklik (grouse, Partridge), rasgele dostluk, sokakta tanışılmış kadın, vurgun (caisson disease, cleanup, decompression sickness, haul, loot, pelf, profiteering, rapture of deep, scoop, strike, the bends), kalan yemeklerden oluşan öğün (pickup dinner). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що збира", випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, promiscuous, random, stray, unpremeditated), звукознімач (adapter, soundbox), захватний пристрій, пікап, підбирач (whisk). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pickup": pickups. (additional references) | |
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"Pickup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: kikkup, Pakoku, Picauo, picup, Piscium. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "pickup" (pronounced pi"ku'p) |
| 3 | -k u' p | backup, breakup, buttercup, checkup, hookup, linkup, lockup, makeup, markup, shakeup, teacup, walkup. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-k-p-p-u" | |
-2 letters: pick, puck. | |
-3 letters: cup, ick, kip, pic, pip, piu, pup. | |
-4 letters: pi, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-k-p-p-u" | |
+1 letter: pickups. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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