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"his car has a lot of pickup"nounthe attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration
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nounmechanical device consisting of a light balanced arm that carries the cartridge
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nouna light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard
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nounan 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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"she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"nounanything with restorative powers
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"put out a pickup on that man"nouna warrant to take someone into custodytype of:
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nounthe act of taking aboard passengers or freightpart of:
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"garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"nounthe act or process of picking up or collecting from various placestype of:
Definition that contains pickup
- technical a pickup truck with a gun mounted on it
- iconoscope the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
- orthicon a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons
- image orthicon a now obsolete picture pickup tube in a television camera; electrons emitted from a photoemissive surface in proportion to the intensity of the incident light are focused onto the target causing secondary emission of electrons