Pickup vs Greet - What's the difference?
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An electronic device for detecting sound, vibration, etc., such as one fitted to an electric guitar or record player.
# In a record player, an electromagnetic component that converts the needle vibrations into an electrical signal.
(US, Canada) A pickup truck.
(usually, attributive) Impromptu or ad hoc, especially of sports games.
An instance of approaching someone and engaging in romantic flirtation and courting with the intent to pursue romance, a date, or a sexual encounter. See also pick-up line', '''pick-up joint''', ' pickup artist .
(video games) An item that can be picked up by the player, conferring some benefit or effect; a power-up.
(US, Canada) The act of a challenging party or candidate winning an electoral district held by an incumbent party or candidate. See also gain
The act of answering a telephone.
* 2006 , Georgina Spelvin, The Devil Made Me Do It , Little Red Hen Books (2008), ISBN 978-0-6151-9907-8,
(film) A relatively minor shot filmed or recorded after the fact to augment previous footage.
The act of collecting and taking away something or someone, usually in a vehicle. The time the act occurs.
To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , Act III, scene 1
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
* '1707, (Joseph Addison), ''Rosamond , Act I, scene 4
To accost; to address.
To meet and give salutations.
* circa 1590 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Adronicus), Act I, scene 2, line 90
To be perceived by (somebody).
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, title= (Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.
*1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), page 312:
*:And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 2:
Mourning, weeping, lamentation.
As nouns the difference between pickup and greet
is that pickup is a car with a loading space; pickup truck while greet is mourning, weeping, lamentation.As a verb greet is
to address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token or greet can be (scotland|northern england) to weep; to cry.As an adjective greet is
(obsolete|outside|scotland) great.pickup
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Noun
(en noun)- Rather than join a basketball league, James decided to play pick up .
- At lunch we had a game of pickup hockey.
- Hey, thanks for the drink, but if this is a pickup , I'm not interested.
- The returns from the election show Apple Party candidate Jane Doe has made a pickup in the district of City West defeating Orange Party Incumbent Joe Smith
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- That's why the phone at the theater's on automatic pickup .
Descendants
* Chinese: *: Mandarin: * Finnish: (l) * French: * German: * Indonesian: (l) * Japanese: * Khmer: * Portuguese: * Russian: * Spanish: (Guatemala) * Thai: ----greet
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) . Compare Old Saxon grotian, Old Frisian greta, Old High German gruozen.Verb
(en verb)- My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.
- Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.
- In vain the spring my senses greets .
- (Alexander Pope)
- There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.}}
Derived terms
* greeter * meet-and-greetEtymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Etymology 3
From a blend of two (etyl) verbs, (of uncertain ultimate origin), both ‘weep, lament’.Verb
- My maw went potty and started greeting .