to pick up
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- /pɪk ʌp/
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- Allow about half an hour for the alcohol to pick up the color from the leaves.
It's not really picking up on camera, but like in person it has green.
- It's not really picking up on camera, but like in person it has green.
- A lot of times it was picking up hues and tones from the, the outfit that she was wearing.
- There's how her neck picks up her chin is kind of close to her shoulder right so it's here.
Examples
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At two of the five sites, three colors of glass are also picked up.
Academic text (1996) -
It's not really picking up on camera, but like in person it has green.
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If you wanted a different background, you can also pick up different colors.
Blog text (25) -
And then I am going to pick up a little bit more of our ugly shade.
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Because nothing else picks up the dark tones in the chair.
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Her red lipstick picked up the red of the dress.
Fiction book (2001) -
But she looked great in a spring floral and a hat that picked up the pale pinks of her dress.
Fiction book (1996) -
It's a pretty pale green and I just did a mini strand test to see if it would pick up colour and actually it does.
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So you see how when the light picks up, you see these greens in this russet brown orange fabric.
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The vibrant blue in the painting really picks up the colors of the sunset.
Synonyms
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3.7
To make something stand out against its background
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4.7
Make something stand out as important
Antonyms
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
pick + up
The police sense 'to take someone into custody' is a pragmatic extension of the basic, transparent meaning 'pick up' = 'collect/take someone' (pick + up). However, the specific legal sense 'arrest' is a specialised interpretation that is not fully predictable from the parts alone and typically requires contextual or cultural knowledge, so it is only partially transparent to learners.
Etymology
Pick up for reflecting color or detail comes from the idea of catching or taking a small part of something, like a necklace catching the light from your eyes. So it means 'to reflect or echo a colour or feature from something else'.