pick up

Perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily.

Improve significantly; go from bad to good.

Buy casually or spontaneously.

Get in addition, as an increase.

Give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift.

Lift out or reflect from a background.

Meet someone for sexual purposes.

“he always tries to pick up girls in bars”

Take up by hand.

Register (perceptual input).

“pick up a signal”

Take into custody.

Take and lift upward.

Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.

Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism.

Gather or collect.

“They pick up our trash twice a week”

Eat by pecking at, like a bird.

Gain or regain energy.