Englishfor English speakers
pickup
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noun
a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
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noun
anything with restorative powers
she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her
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noun
a warrant to take someone into custody
put out a pickup on that man
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noun
the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
his car has a lot of pickup
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noun
the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places
garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays
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noun
the act of taking aboard passengers or freight
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noun
a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships
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noun
(= cartridge)
an electro-acoustic transducer that is the part of the arm of a record player that holds the needle and that is removable
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noun
(= tone arm)
mechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
unit
Noun
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One of a measure of something; the amount of something that is counted as "one".
Measure five units to the left.
$4 is the unit price.
A pound is a useful unit for thinking about amounts of butter.
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Form of measurement.
I prefer metric units.
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Item, used when no other word for something exists.
He set up the A/C unit.