pick out (
http://definr.com/pick out)
v 1: pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives;
"Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband
for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from
among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" [syn:
choose,
take,
select]
2: detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked
out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I
can't make out the faces in this photograph" [syn:
recognize,
recognise,
distinguish,
discern,
make out, {tell
apart}]