pick out

verb7

1. •
   To remove by picking.

   • But lering and lurking here and there like spies, / The devil tere their tunges and pike out their ies! — 1515
2. •
   To select.

   • These broken fragments, John de Fordun, vvho lived in the fourteenth century, collected vvith a pious industry, and from them picked out materials, vvhich he formed into a regular history. — 1759
3. •
   To distinguish; discern.

   • The young birds cry out for food, and the parents returning from the sea manage to pick out their own amid a mass of lookalikes. — 1988
4. •
   To detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste).

   • And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. — 1925
5. •
   To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour.

   • a dark green carriage body picked out with red
6. •
   To send a long pass or cross to.

   • Ameobi skipped away down the left in the 39th minute and tried to pick out Shearer with a cross but his delivery was cut out by goalkeeper Jussi J... — 2006
7. •
   To play music slowly, such as when practicing.