0 to obtain or receive something:
While you’re in town, would you pick up a book for me?
Can you pick up the Yankees game up here (= receive broadcasts of it)?
She picked up her soccer skills from her older brother (= learned them informally).
Gwen picked up a cold on her trip (= started to suffer from it).
1 to start again after an interruption:
The author picks up the theme again on page ten.
In tomorrow's class we’ll pick up where we left off.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
pick up something