pick up
verboEn español: coger, asir, pepenar, recoger
- To lift; to grasp and raise. · When you pick up the bag, make sure to support the bottom.
- To collect or purchase an object, especially in passing. · Can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home?
- To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease). · I picked up a cold on my trip last week.
- To be caught or accused of wrongdoing, usually criminal charges. · He picked up a parole violation last month.
- To clean up; to return to an organized state. · You made a mess, aren't you going to pick up after yourself?
- To collect a passenger. · I'll pick you up outside the library.
- To collect and detain (a suspect). · The cops have picked up the man they were looking for.
- To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc. · The story does not seem to have been widely picked up.
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So shaky was he that he could hardly pick up his change, and the clerk had helped him with it.
In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
I’ve been real worried about him, but he’s some better this while back and we’ve got a good hired man, so I’m hoping he’ll kind of rest and pick up.
“Is he stuffed?” asked the Lion in surprise, as he watched her pick up the Scarecrow and set him upon his feet, while she patted him into shape again.
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