Pick
Pick verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.
Sort
Sort verb - To come or be together as friends.
Pick and sort are semantically related in place in order topic. Sometimes you can use "Pick" instead a verb "Sort".
How words are described
| good | good pick | good sort |
| high | high pick | high sort |
| best | best pick | best sort |
| typical | typical pick | typical sort |
| Other adjectives: common, regular, powerful, old-fashioned, military, worst, odd, weird. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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He sees the squid pick up a large chunk of a sunken ship in a tentacle and notes that it's like it's wielding a hammer or mallet of some sort.
Source: Literature / Artemis Fowl -
While it does avert the tendency for this sort of camera to see through walls, it only seems to pick up heat produced by enemies, and not by the surroundings.
Source: Video Game / Pariah -
Foreshadowing: That there's some sort of connection between Mark Sheridan and Royce in the past becomes clear to us when we observe each of them on a separate occasion use the arms of a pair of glasses to pick the lock on a set of handcuffs.
Source: Film / U.S. Marshals
Cite this Source
Sort and Pick. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick/sort
Pick & Sort. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick/sort>.
Sort or Pick. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick/sort.
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