pick up
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.06 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When you pick up the bag, make sure to support the bottom."
- "Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks."
- "She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else."
- "Can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home?"
- ""I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]""
- "For the brass, you don't need to go out and get any specialized hardware. Instead, go pick up a brass nipple at any hardware store for under $20 and cut it down instead."
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- American usage