pickup
n.
van; small truck, pickup truck; act of understanding; device on a record player that holds the needle
Pickup
Pickup or pick-up may refer to:
Pickup (music), a device which detects vibrations from musical instruments
Anacrusis or upbeat, also called pickup note(s)
Pickup artist, a man who is skilled in meeting, attracting, and seducing women
Pick-up (film), minor shots filmed after the primary filming of a movie to augment what has already been shot
Pick-up (gaming), anything that you collect whilst playing a video game
Pickup group or
Pickup band, a musical ensemble brought together for only a few performances
Pick-up line, intended to be short and easy method of engaging another person for sex or romance
Pickup truck or pick-up truck, a light truck with an open-top rear cargo areaPickup in commercial printing, to print a product again without any or minimal changes
Pickup tube a type of cathode ray tube.
Shih-Te, a Zen Chinese poet (literal translation: "Pick-Up" meaning "Foundling")A film directed by
Lucia SanchezPick-up, a 1955 novel by
Charles WillefordPickup (games/scrimmage)
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pickup
Noun
1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
(synonym) pickup truck
(hypernym) truck, motortruck
(hyponym) technical
2. a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man"
(hypernym) bench warrant, arrest warrant
(derivation) collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
(classification) colloquialism
3. anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"
(synonym) pick-me-up
(hypernym) corrective, restorative
(derivation) perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor
4. a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
(hypernym) acquaintance, friend
(derivation) pick up
5. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup"
(synonym) getaway
(hypernym) acceleration
6. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
(synonym) tone arm, pickup arm
(hypernym) mechanical device
(part-holonym) record player, phonograph
7. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
(synonym) cartridge
(hypernym) electro-acoustic transducer
(hyponym) crystal pickup
(part-holonym) record player, phonograph
(part-meronym) stylus
8. the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"
(hypernym) collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation
(hyponym) garbage collection, garbage pickup, trash collection, trash pickup
(derivation) pick up
9. the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
(hypernym) acquiring, getting
(part-holonym) transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
(derivation) pick up
Pickup
The gain in
yield that occurs when a block of
bonds is swapped for another block of higher-
coupon bonds.
pickup
Synonyms and related words:
Gramophone, Great Leap Forward, Jezebel, PA, PA system, Sunday drive, Victrola, accelerando, acceleration, acquaintance, advance, advancement, advocate, aggravation, airing, alter ego, amelioration, amendment, apprehension, arrestation, arrestment, ascent, audio sound system, audiophile, backer, bad woman, baggage, beefing-up, best friend, bettering, betterment, binaural system, bitch, bitch box, blowing up, blowup, booking, boost, bosom friend, bracer, broad, brother, bullhorn, cartridge, casual acquaintance, ceramic pickup, changer, chippy, clitoromaniac, close acquaintance, close friend, cocotte, concentration, condensation, confidant, confidante, consolidation, crystal pickup, deepening, derived four-channel system, detention, discrete four-channel system, drab, drive, easy lay, easy woman, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, exacerbation, exaggeration, explosion, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature, fellowman, floozy, four-channel stereo system, frail sister, friend, furtherance, getaway, grisette, harridan, headway, heating-up, heightening, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, hussy, hysteromaniac, impetus, improvement, information explosion, inseparable friend, intensification, intercom, intercommunication system, intimate, jade, joyride, jukebox, lift, loose woman, lover, magnetic pickup, magnification, melioration, mend, mending, mobile camera, monaural system, mono, nab, needle, neighbor, nickelodeon, nymphet, nympho, nymphomaniac, other self, outside pickup, partisan, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pick-me-up, pinch, population explosion, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, quean, quickening, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, recovery, redoubling, refresher, reinforcement, remote pickup, repository, restoration, revival, reviver, ride, rise, slut, sound reproduction system, sound truck, speedup, spin, spot pickup, squawk box, step-up, stereo, strengthening, strumpet, stylus, supporter, sympathizer, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tart, telecamera, television camera, thrust, tightening, tone arm, transcription turntable, trollop, trull, turntable, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upward mobility, uteromaniac, wanton, well-wisher, wench, whirl, whore
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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