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1. Pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
   - choose, take, select
    
2. Detect with the senses
   "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"
   - spot, recognize, recognise [Brit], distinguish, discern, make out, tell apart

Derived forms: picked out, picks out, picking out

Type of: decide, determine, make up one's mind