Pick and Take

Pick

Pick verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Usage example: I pick you as my partner

Take is a synonym for pick in choose topic. In some cases you can use "Take" instead a verb "Pick", when it comes to topics like select, withdraw, sift out.

Nearby Words: pickle, picky, picked, picket, pickup

Take

Take verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Usage example: you can take the white side this time, since I got to be white for our last chess game

Pick is a synonym for take in activity topic. You can use "Pick" instead a verb "Take", if it concerns topics such as choose, select, withdraw, buy.

Nearby Words: taking, taken, taker

How words are described

good good pick good take
best best pick best take
long long pick long take
original original pick original take
Other adjectives: top, single, popular, large, great, little, excellent, personal, final, odd, next, weird, last.

Common collocations

people pick people take people
word pick word take word
name pick name take name
place pick place take place
Other words: moment, time, route, path, way, level, fight, side, option, names.

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Evolution: The World of Sacred Device Endgame Plus: You get one bonus dungeon (which is one of the five you didn't pick during the game), able to freely choose dungeons and the ability to take Linear out of your party.
  • Useful Notes / Christianity Or can we just pick and choose the bits to take literally and consign the rest to poetic allegory?
  • Tabletop Game / Pandemic The Pilot (In the Lab only) can move three spaces instead of one space per turn, and can even pick up other players and take them with him.
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