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Pick out meaning

Pick out is a phrasal verb with 3 meanings. One of them is to play a melody hesitantly, one note at a time.

Past simple
picked out
Past participle
picked out
-ing form
picking out

What pick out means

C2

To play a melody hesitantly, one note at a time

She picked out the tune on the old piano.

2 more meanings of pick out are in the Retite app, each with an example and a translation into your language.

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Similar phrasal verbs

With pick: pick up.

With out: go out, find out, sort out, run out, take out, get out, hand out, check out, look out, ask out.

Common questions

What does pick out mean?

It has 3 meanings. One of them is to play a melody hesitantly, one note at a time. The other 2, each with an example and a translation into your language, are in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of pick out?

Picked out, which is also its past participle.

Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.

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