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動詞

pick up (third-person singular simple present picks up, present participle picking up, simple past and past participle picked up)

1. (transitive) To lift; to grasp and raise.

   Antonym: put down

   When you pick up the bag, make sure to support the bottom.

   • 1957 December, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840:

     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.

   • 1964, Philip K. Dick, “NINE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996, →ISBN, page 112:

     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.

2. (transitive) To collect an object, especially in passing.

   Antonym: drop off

   Can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home?

   • 1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:

     "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. […]"

3. (transitive) To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch or contract (a disease).

   I picked up a cold on my trip last week.

   • 2020 April 16, Thom Dunn, Rik Paul, “How to Wash and Detail a Car the Right Way”, in The New York Times—Wirecutter‎:

     Cars often pick up bits of road tar and asphalt, dried bugs, tree sap, or other debris that’s hard to remove with regular car wash soap.

   • 2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times‎:

     We are constantly being exposed to fungi, whether by picking up spores on our skin or eating food on which fungi are hitchhiking. Most of them won’t take up residence in our bodies.

4. (transitive or intransitive) To clean up; to return to an organized state.

   Antonym: mess up

   You made a mess, aren't you going to pick up after yourself?

   • 1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, HarperCollins, published 2009, →ISBN, page 28:

     The floor was strewn with bright snips of origami paper, a crumpled drawing, and one dirty sock, which Amy now shoved under the bed with her foot. ¶ "You're lucky," said Marla. "My mother makes me pick up my room every single day."

5. (transitive) To collect a passenger.

   Antonym: drop off

   I'll pick you up outside the library.

   • 2023 August 23, Pip Dunn, “The last bastion of the HST 'Castles'”, in RAIL, number 990, page 49:

     After picking up a few passengers (most likely heading into Exeter for shopping) and setting a few off (for a day at the beach), we get the 'right away' and continue along the sea wall with its iconic sandstone cliffs on the left.

6. (transitive) To collect and detain (a suspect).

   The cops have picked up the man they were looking for.

7. (transitive, media) To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc.

   The story does not seem to have been widely picked up.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:

     News of this notice from the university was picked up by local media and had the effect of raising the ire of some citizens who saw this as an attack on ‘Chinese heritage’[.]

8. (intransitive) To improve, increase, or speed up.

   Prices seem to be picking up again.

   I was in bed sick this morning, but I'm picking up now.

9. (intransitive) To restart or resume.

   Let's pick up where we left off yesterday.

   • 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC‎:

     The plot picks up where the last film left off. The High Table, the organisation that controls crime around the world, has a multi-million-dollar contract out on Wick, who killed a High Table member.

   • 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, AV Club, The Dark Knight Rises‎:

     Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.

10. To reach and continue along (a road).

    Walter decided the best route home was to pick up the A5.

    • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 45:

      Miller brought his car from the underground garage and threaded a way through London's traffic to pick up the A5.

11. (transitive) To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.

    Synonym: learn

    It looks complicated, but you'll soon pick it up.

12. (transitive) To receive (a radio signal or the like).

    With the new antenna, I can pick up stations all the way from Omaha.

13. (transitive) To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on.

    Did you pick up his nervousness?

14. (transitive) To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on.

    She's always picking me up on my grammar.

15. (transitive and intransitive with on) To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.

    Synonyms: (Polari) blag, hit on, rizz up, take up

    He was in the fabric store not to buy fabric but to pick up women.

    • 1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):

      I'll tell you what. You lay off my clients, I'll give you a few pointers picking up women, okay?

    • 2016 May 23, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

      Xavier—first seen as an adult in First Class trying to pick up a woman in a bar—is impotent, at least metaphorically, and will eventually see all of his luxuriant hair fall out.

16. (transitive or intransitive) To answer a telephone.

    Synonym: pick up the phone

    I'm calling him, but he just isn't picking up!

17. (intransitive, of a phone) To receive calls; to function correctly.

    I've tried his home number a couple times, but it isn't picking up.

18. (transitive) To pay for.

    The company will pick up lunch with customers for sales calls.

19. (transitive) To reduce the despondency of.
    • 1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd, “Sweet Home Alabama”:

      […] they pick me up when I'm feeling blue

20. (transitive) To take control (physically) of something.
    • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, in BBC:

      Bolton were then just inches from taking the lead, but the dangerous-looking Taylor drilled just wide after picking up a loose ball following Jose Bosingwa's poor attempted clearance.

21. (soccer, transitive) To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely.
    • 2011 January 18, David Dulin, “Cardiff 0-2 Stoke”, in BBC:

      And soon after, no-one picked up Shotton who was free to power a 12-yard header over from another Pennant corner, before Pennant sent a free kick straight at Cardiff keeper Tom Heaton.

22. (transitive) To record; to notch up.
    • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2-1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport:

      And the home side survived without any late scares to pick up the first win of their Group F campaign.

23. (sports) To behave in a manner that results in a foul. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
24. (US, military, transitive) To promote somebody who was previously passed over.
    • 1937, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 2, page 141:

      […] there are now 98 officers of that rank who have been passed over one or more times, most of whom have little prospect of being picked up by future selection boards but will await only the completion of 21 years' service before going on the retired list.

    • 1938, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs, Hearings on H.R. 9997 to Regulate the Distribution, Promotion, and Retirement of Officers of the Line of the Navy and for Other Purposes, page 3239:

      The list is about the same as when each class was commissioned, except for a small percentage who were passed over once or twice and then picked up.

派生語

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pick up (plural pick ups)

1. Rare form of pickup.

派生語

名詞

pick-up (countable and uncountable, plural pick-ups)

1. Alternative form of pickup

語源

From pick +‎ up.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɪkʌp/

名詞

pickup (countable and uncountable, plural pickups)

1. An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
   1. In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.

      Synonym: phono cartridge

   2. Electromagnetic coil receiver of metal string oscillations.
   3. The reception of sound, etc. by such a device.

      This microphone has very weak pickup.

2. (US, Canada) Ellipsis of pickup truck.
   • 2009, Chinle Miller, Desert Rats: Adventures in the American Outback, page 35:

     Franklin is beside himself, revving up the engine in the pickup.

   • 2024 June 10, Thomas Lake, “17 years later, I still remember this act of kindness from another driver”, in CNN‎:

     I kept my window rolled up, eyes on the road, probably making the pickup man angrier with my silence.

3. (usually attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games and teams made up of randomly selected players.

   Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pickup.

   At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.

   • 2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, page 100:

     Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.

4. An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter.

   Coordinate terms: pick-up line, pick-up joint, pickup artist

   Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup, I'm not interested.

5. A person successfully approached in this manner for romance or sex.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 4:

     "Good Lord! I'm not stopping you from taking on all the pick-ups that come your way."

   • 1984, Steven Carter, What every man should know about the "new woman": a survival guide:

     But what about the women who still go to bars — are they completely unaffected by these negative connotations? Hardly. No woman wants to think of herself as being an easy pick-up […]

   • 2002, James A. Abrahamson, Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk, page 192:

     Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]

6. (sports) In various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
   • 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport‎:

     The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.

7. (video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
   • 1991, James Leach, Turrican II (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 69

     Every step of the way you come across absolutely loads of aliens, pick-ups and new and weird obstacles to overcome.

   • 2002, Acclaim Entertainment, Turok Evolution: The official strategy guide, page 73:

     Enter the graveyard if you want pick-ups, otherwise make a left under the archways to progress. When the pathway ends, you'll see two blocked-off tunnels and a switch between them.

8. (US, Canada, politics) The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate.

   Coordinate term: gain

   The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith

9. The act of answering a telephone.
   • 2006, Georgina Spelvin, The Devil Made Me Do It, Little Red Hen Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 224:

     That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup.

10. (film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
11. The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle.
    • 2011, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 168:

      A computer voice tells her that she is supposed to make a pickup in Griffith Park and deliver it to a Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates franchise in Van Nuys.

    • 2020 March 18, Cindy Gonzalez, “Blackstone District starts emergency fund to aid the neighborhood's bar, restaurant servers”, in Omaha World-Herald‎:

      Owner Philip Schaffart said a precoronavirus Tuesday typically brought in $2,500 in revenue. This past Tuesday, he said, that amount dwindled to $300 as his place was open only for pickup and delivery.

12. (uncountable) A time during which passengers, such as school children, are picked up.
    • 2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, page 1:

      These signs are friendly reminders for road users to slow down during drop-off and pick-up.

13. (uncountable) The rate at which a motor vehicle picks up speed.
    • 1946, Henry Robinson Luce, Fortune, volume 34, page 186:

      The Willys-Overland won't be the fastest car on the road or have the best pickup, but it will have a top speed of eighty miles per hour, and its makers are confident that no car in its class will excel it in economy of fuel and upkeep.

    • 1955, Popular Mechanics, volume 104, number 3, page 70:

      The more highly vaporized the mixture your carburetor delivers, the more power you get, which means higher speed, better pickup, smoother idling, more miles per gallon.

14. (uncountable) The condition of being picked up, or taken up; adoption by some entity.
    • 1987, Chuck Jordan, Jordan Family Descendents, page 302:

      Newsweek gave it a big write-up, as did many trade journals, including, Editor and Publisher. And our articles get pickup as far west as the Tombstone Epitaph in Arizona.

    • 2018, Magda Konieczna, Journalism Without Profit: Making News when the Market Fails, page 189:

      Back then CPI staff demonstrated a reflexivity common to public relations, reflected for instance in Lewis's acknowledgment of the fact that the novelty factor might lead to more pickup.

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pickup

1. Misspelling of pick up.