pick off
挑出,挑选,挑选出,拣选
Definitions
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- : Baseball. a play in which a base runner, caught off base, is tagged out by an infielder on a quick throw, usually from the pitcher or catcher.
- : Electronics. a mechanism that senses mechanical motion and produces a corresponding electric signal.
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Examples
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
In such beer polls, I suspect a lot of voters would pick Huckabee.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
We are going to send our butler to the sale to-morrow, to pick up some of that sixty-four.
The majority pick up a job when they can, but are inevitably idle and suffering two-thirds of the time.
But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.
Isabel longed for the time when she should enter them and pick up the threads dropped from her mother's nerveless fingers.