pick up
verb- 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.
From the library
I stooped in some confusion and began to pick up the fruit, understanding for some reason my companion desired me to take the blame upon myself.
“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.
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
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.
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