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1. Make a selection from a number of alternatives
   "pick out a good husband for your daughter";
   - choose, take, select
    
2. See or hear differences; identify a particular part or parts of a whole; detect with difficulty
   "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: picking out, picked out, picks out

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