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1. fill ...up p.v. When youfill something up, you fill it completely.

My radiator must be leaking; it has to befilled up with water every day.

We alwaysfill the tankup when we're in Indiana because gas is cheaper there.

filled up part.adj. After something has been completelyfilled up, it isfilled up.

These water containers don't weigh very much. Are you sure they're completely filled up?

2. fill... up (on) p.v. When youfill up orfill up on something, you eat so much that you are no longer hungry and cannot eat any more.

Don'tfill up on salad — you won't have any room for dinner.

Ifilled up on candy and was really sick about an hour later.

3. fill up p.v. When a room or other areafills up, people enter it until it is full.

The dance floorfilled up quickly when the band began to play.

The hotels in Rio de Janeiro alwaysfill up at carnival time.

1. pick... up p.v. When you pick something up, you lift it with your hand.

All this trash has to bepicked up.

Sampicked up his briefcase and left his office.

2. pick... up p.v. When you go to a place to get something that was created, prepared, or left for you and is now ready, youpick itup.

The garbage is supposed to bepicked up before 9:00 am.

The travel agent said I couldpick the ticketsup tomorrow.

pickup n. Something that is to bepicked up or the process ofpicking it up is apickup.

The restaurant uses the back doorfor pickups and deliveries.

3. pick... up p.v. When youpick peopleup, you stop your vehicle and give them a ride away from that place.

You'll bepicked up at the airport by the hotel van.

Picking up hitchhikers is dangerous.

pickup n. Someone who is to bepicked up or the process ofpicking someoneup is apickup.

The taxi driver went to 2122 N. dark Street for apickup.

4. pick... up p.v. When youpick somethingup in a store, you quickly go into a store to buy something you need.

I need topick up some milk on the way home.

Could youpick a loaf of breadup on your way over?

5. pick... up p. v. When youpickup a skill, you learn it easily. When youpick up a

habit, you aquire the habit.

Children canpick up a new language very quickly. My son ispicking some bad habitsup from his friends.

6. pick... up p.v. When you resume doing something at the point where you stopped doing it earlier, youpick up at that point.

The teacher started the class bypicking up where she had left off the previous week.

When you return to work after a long vacation, it's hard to know where topick up.

7. pick... up p.v. When youpick up a radio or television station or a certain frequency on a receiver, you are able to tune it to that station or frequency.

When the weather is right,you canpick radio stationsup that are hundreds of miles away.

General Johnston's radio transmission waspicked up by the enemy.

8. pick... up p.v. When the police or other authorities arrest people, theypick them up.

The border patrolpicks up several people every day trying to bring drugs into the country.

Charles waspicked up for driving under the influence of alcohol.

9. pick... up p.v. When you get something by chance without looking for it, you pick itup.

I picked up a few stock tips from a guy I met on the plane.

Marshapicked up some interesting books at a used bookstore.

10. pick... up p.v. When youpick up the check or the tab (a tab is a list of money that someone owes) in a restaurant or other place, you pay it.

Tom's a real cheapskate; henever picks up the check.

Heather's father pickedup the tab for the entire wedding.

11. pick up p.v. When the speed, level, or condition of something increases or improves, itpicks up.

Business is stow this time of year, but it should pickup in December.

The song starts out slowly, but then itpicks up.

pickup n. An improvement in the speed, level, or condition of something is apickup.If a motor vehicle is able to accelerate quickly, it haspickup.

The company's profits increased after apickup in sales.

I need to take my truck to the mechanic. It doesn't haveany pickup.

12. pick... up p.v. When youpick up a place that is messy, you organize or tidy it.

Timmy's mother told him he couldn't play outside until hepicked up his room.

Let'spick this placeup — it's a mess.

13. pick... up p.v. [informal] When youpick up members of the opposite sex, you approach and successfully interest them in a sexual or romantic encounter.

Hank tried topick up Frank's sister at the party last night, but she wasn't interested.

Patpicked up someone, and they went to a cheap motel.

1. sell out (of) [often passive] p.v. When a storesells out of something or issold outof something, it sells all of it.

The toy storesold out of antigravity boots in two days.

I wanted to buy that new computer game, but every store I went to wassold out of it.

sold out part.adj. After all of something for sale in a store has been sold, the item issold out.

I saw the most beautiful shoes at the mall, but my size was allsold out.

sold out part.adj. After all the tickets to a concert, play, or other public performance have been sold, the event issold out.

You'll never get a ticket for the Superbowl — it's beensold out for weeks.

1. straighten ... out p.v. When something is bent, crooked, or curved and you make it straight, youstraighten itout.

My elbow is so swollen that I can'tstraighten my armout.

As the city grew, many of the winding streets werestraightened out.

2. straighten ... out p.v. When youstraighten out a confused situation or misun­derstanding, you take steps to make it understandable and satisfactory to everyone involved.Sort out is similar tostraighten out.

My hotel had me booked for the wrong days in the wrong room, but the manager straightened everythingout.

Save your questions for the meeting. Everything will bestraightened out then.

straightened out part.adj. After a confused situation or misunderstanding has been made understandable and satisfactory to everyone involved, it isstraightened out. Sorted out is similar tostraightened out.

Erik was upset with Dan, but they had a talk and now everything isstraightened out.

3. straighten ... out p.v. When youstraighten out people who are acting foolishly, you do or say something that causes them to act more responsibly. When you straighten out people who are confused, you help them to understand.

I told my son that if he gets in trouble one more time, I'm going to send him to military school. That reallystraightened himout.

I'm totally confused about what I'm supposed to do. Can youstraighten meout?

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