- pick up speed
- pick up speedto increase speed. •
The train began to pick up speed as it went downhill.
•The car picked up speed as we moved into the left lane.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
pick up speed
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pick up speed — (or steam) (of a vehicle) go faster; accelerate * * * pick up ˈspeed idiom to go faster • The train began to pick up speed. Main entry: ↑pickidiom … Useful english dictionary
pick up speed — increase the speed of The car picked up speed as it began to go down the hill … Idioms and examples
pick up speed — to increase in value or degree. Stocks picked up speed in the final hour of trading this afternoon … New idioms dictionary
pick up speed — verb To accelerate Syn: gather pace … Wiktionary
pick — 1 /pIk/ verb (T) 1 CHOOSE STH to choose someone or something good or suitable from a group or range of people or things: Students have to pick three courses from a list of 15. | Let me pick a few examples at random. | pick your words (=be careful … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
pick — pick1 W1S1 [pık] v [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(choose something)¦ 2¦(flowers/fruit etc)¦ 3¦(remove something)¦ 4 pick your way through/across/among etc something 5 pick your nose 6 pick your teeth 7 pick somebody s brains 8 pick a quarrel/fight (with… … Dictionary of contemporary English
pick — pick1 [ pık ] verb transitive *** 1. ) to choose someone or something from a group: Out of all the girls he could have gone out with, he picked me. pick someone/something for something: She was picked for the school play. pick someone to do… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pick up — phrasal verb Word forms pick up : present tense I/you/we/they pick up he/she/it picks up present participle picking up past tense picked up past participle picked up 1) [transitive] to lift someone or something up from a surface He picked the… … English dictionary
speed — speed1 W1S2 [spi:d] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(of movement)¦ 2¦(of action)¦ 3¦(fast)¦ 4¦(photography)¦ 5¦(drug)¦ 6 five speed/ten speed etc 7 up to speed ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin: sped success, quickness ] … Dictionary of contemporary English
speed — [[t]spi͟ːd[/t]] ♦♦ speeds, speeding, sped, speeded (The form of the past tense and past participle is sped in meaning 5 but speeded for the phrasal verb.) 1) N VAR: with supp The speed of something is the rate at which it moves or travels. He… … English dictionary
speed — 1 W1, S2 /spi:d/ noun 1 OF MOVEMENT (C, U) how fast something moves or travels: What speed are we doing? | Police are advising motorists to reduce speed. | pick up/gather speed (=gradually start to travel faster): Once outside the station, the… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
