pick out

verbs

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"

choose, pick out, select, take

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"

discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart