| 单词 | pickup |
| 释义 | pickup /pik"up'/, n. 1. an improvement, as in health, business conditions, work, production, etc. 2. Informal. pick-me-up. 3. Informal. a casual, usually unintroduced acquaintance, often one made in hope of a sexual relationship. 4. an instance of stopping for or taking aboard passengers or freight, as by a train, ship, taxicab, etc., esp. an instance of taking freight or a shipment of goods onto a truck. 5. the person, freight, or shipment so taken aboard: The cab driver had a pickup at the airport who wanted to be driven to the docks. 6. Auto. a. capacity for rapid acceleration. b. acceleration; increase in speed. c. Also called pickup truck. a small truck with a low-sided open body, used for deliveries and light hauling. 7. Baseball. the act of fielding a ball after it hits the ground. 8. Also called cartridge. a small device attached to the end of a phonograph tone arm that contains a stylus and the mechanism that translates the movement of the stylus in a record groove into a changing electrical voltage. 9. Radio. a. the act of receiving sound waves in the transmitting set in order to change them into electrical waves. b. a receiving or recording device. c. the place from which a broadcast is being transmitted. d. interference (def. 4). 10. Television. a. the change of light energy into electrical energy in a television camera. b. See camera tube. c. a telecast made directly from the scene of an action. 11. a hitchhiker. 12. Metalworking. (in the cold-drawing of metal) the adhesion of particles of the metal to the die or plug. adj. 13. composed of or employing whatever persons are available on a more or less impromptu basis: a pickup game of baseball; a pickup dance band. 14. using whatever ingredients are handy or available: a Sunday night pickup supper. [1855-60; n. use of v. phrase pick up] |
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