PICKUP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pickup mean? 

• PICKUP (noun)
  The noun PICKUP has 9 senses:

1. a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

2. a warrant to take someone into custody

3. anything with restorative powers

4. a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

5. the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

6. mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

7. an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

8. the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

9. the act of taking aboard passengers or freight

  Familiarity information: PICKUP used as a noun is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PICKUP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pickup; pickup truck

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

motortruck; truck (an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pickup"):

technical (a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A warrant to take someone into custody

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

put out a pickup on that man

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

arrest warrant; bench warrant (a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to apprehend an offender and bring that person to court)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

pick up (take into custody)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Anything with restorative powers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pick-me-up; pickup

Context example:

she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

corrective; restorative (a device for treating injury or disease)

Derivation:

pick up (gain or regain energy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

acquaintance; friend (a person with whom you are acquainted)

Derivation:

pick up (meet someone for sexual purposes)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

getaway; pickup

Context example:

his car has a lot of pickup

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

acceleration (an increase in rate of change)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

pickup; pickup arm; tone arm

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

mechanical device (mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles)

Holonyms ("pickup" is a part of...):

phonograph; record player (machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically)

Sense 7

Meaning:

An electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cartridge; pickup

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

electro-acoustic transducer (a transducer that converts electrical to acoustic energy or vice versa)

Meronyms (parts of "pickup"):

stylus (a sharp pointed device attached to the cartridge of a record player)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pickup"):

crystal pickup (a cartridge in which an output voltage is produced by the vibration of a piezoelectric crystal)

Holonyms ("pickup" is a part of...):

phonograph; record player (machine in which rotating records cause a stylus to vibrate and the vibrations are amplified acoustically or electronically)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The act or process of picking up or collecting from various places

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

aggregation; assembling; collecting; collection (the act of gathering something together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pickup"):

garbage collection; garbage pickup; trash collection; trash pickup (the collection and removal of garbage)

Derivation:

pick up (buy casually or spontaneously)

pick up (gather or collect)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The act of taking aboard passengers or freight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pickup" is a kind of...):

acquiring; getting (the act of acquiring something)

Holonyms ("pickup" is a part of...):

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Derivation:

pick up (give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift)

 Context examples 

The SJSU researchers mounted Doppler LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, a remote-sensing method that uses light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure distances) instruments onto a pickup truck, which they placed near wildfires.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)