Pick up
Pick up verb - To acquire complete knowledge, understanding, or skill in.
To hear
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Although he stops taking the calls, he still brings the (disconnected) phone with him, knowing that all he has to do to hear his wife's voice is pick up the receiver.
Source: Phone Call from the Dead - Machine Monotone: If you pick up the phone, expect to hear this.
Source: Video Game / Cube Escape -
Brick Joke: Remember how Dagny returns from Galt's Gulch just in time to hear that the engines from their star line and the cars from a coal run were being appropriated to pick up a shipment of grapefruit?
Source: Literature / Atlas Shrugged
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To hear and Pick up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 10, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pick_up/to_hear
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