Pick
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.
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
Both words in one sentence
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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.
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Or can we just pick and choose the bits to take literally and consign the rest to poetic allegory?
Source: Useful Notes / Christianity -
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.
Source: Tabletop Game / Pandemic
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