pick up
- v take and lift upward
- v take up by hand
- v give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift
- v gather or collect
- v get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- v get in addition, as an increase
- v take into custody
- v buy casually or spontaneously
- v register (perceptual input)
- v lift out or reflect from a background
- v meet someone for sexual purposes
- v fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- v improve significantly; go from bad to good
- v perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily
- v eat by pecking at, like a bird
- v gain or regain energy