picking up
Lifting from below
Picking up centers on the motion of lifting something from a surface: I'm picking up groceries on the way home.
It extends to collecting people (picking up the kids from school), detecting signals (The radio isn't picking up anything), resuming (Let's pick up where we left off), and acquiring informally—including romantic prospects: He's at the bar picking up women.
Business or activity picks up when it increases or improves.
- gettinColloquial acquiring
- resumingBeginning again after pause
- acquiringGaining possession of
- detectingPerceiving something present
- liftMechanism for vertical transport
hand · learning · second language · bad habits · hitting on · slack · collecting · hitchhiking · improving · grip · continuing · gathering · scooping up · loose change · dry cleaning · tab · retrieving · reach
- growthgrowth, grow, growing, growth rate, increase
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking
- errandsgrocery shopping, groceries, grocery run, dry cleaning, pharmacy
- tuning inlistening, attention, focus, dial in, attunement
- listeningactive listening, attentive, listening skills, listening comprehension, focused attention
- tidyingtidying, tidy, tidying up, declutter, cleaning
picking upsetting down
Act of placing down
putting down · dropping · laying down · releasing · placing
picking updropping off
Falling briefly asleep
delivering · leaving · returning · giving away · distributing
picking upslowing down
Reducing pace or velocity
losing steam · decelerating · winding down · tapering off · dying down
pick, pick up, picking, picked, pickup, picks, picker, picked up, pickpocket