Meanings (ES + gloss)
asir • coger • pepenar
To lift; to grasp and raise.
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 ga…
When you pick up the bag, make sure to support the bottom.
recoger • recolectar
To collect an object, especially in passing.
"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 workho…
Can you pick up a pint of milk on your way home?
buscar • recoger
To collect a passenger.
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…
I'll pick you up outside the library.
mejorar • remontar • repuntar
To improve, increase, or speed up.
I was in bed sick this morning, but I'm picking up now.
Prices seem to be picking up again.
reanudar • retomar
To restart or resume.
Let's pick up where we left off yesterday.
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…
captar
To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize.
It looks complicated, but you'll soon pick it up.
captar
To receive (a radio signal or the like).
With the new antenna, I can pick up stations all the way from Omaha.
ligotear • meter fichas • tirar los tejos • tirar los trastos
To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation.
He was in the fabric store not to buy fabric but to pick up women.
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.
contestar • descolgar
To answer a telephone.
I'm calling him, but he just isn't picking up!
Phrases
pick it uppick oneself up off the floorpick up linepick up onpick up one's crumbspick up one's marbles and go homepick up speedpick up steampick up stitchespick up stompiespick up the ball and run with itpick up the mantlepick up the pacepick up the phonepick up the piecespick up the slackpick up the tabpick up the threadspick up the threads ofpick up what someone is laying downpick up what someone is putting downpick-me-uppick-uppick-up gamepick-up jointpick-up stickspicker-upperpickuppickupable
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