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}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0