How to pronounce “pick up”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.
• (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.
• (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).
• (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.
• (transitive) To collect a passenger.
• (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).
• (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.
• (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.
• (intransitive) To restart or resume.
• To reach and continue along (a road).
• (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
• (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).
• (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.
• (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.
• (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
• (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.
• (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.
• (transitive) To pay for.
• (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
• (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
• (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
• (transitive) To record; to notch up.
• (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul. (Can we add an example for this sense? )
• (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
• [Noun]
• Rare form of pickup.

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