WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

228 Moby Thesaurus words for "pick out":
   abscind, abstract, address to, advert to, allude to, amputate,
   analyze, annihilate, assign, avulse, ban, bar, be taken as, behold,
   bob, bolt, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to,
   cast off, cast out, catch sight of, choose out, chuck, cite,
   clap eyes on, clear, clear away, clear out, clear the decks, clip,
   contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, crop, cull, cull out, cut,
   cut away, cut off, cut out, decide between, demarcate, demark,
   denominate, denote, deport, deracinate, descry, designate,
   determine, differentiate, dig out, dig up, direct attention to,
   direct to, discern, discover, discriminate, disentangle,
   dispose of, distinguish, divide, dock, draw, draw out,
   draw the line, dredge, dredge up, eject, elect, elide, eliminate,
   emblematize, enucleate, eradicate, espy, evolve, evulse, excavate,
   except, excerpt, excise, exclude, exile, expatriate, expel, exsect,
   extinguish, extirpate, extract, extricate, figure, finger, fix,
   focus on, get out, get quit of, get rid of, get shut of, ghettoize,
   gin, glean, glimpse, gouge out, grub up, handpick, have in sight,
   indicate, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, ken,
   knock off, lay aside, lay eyes on, liquidate, look on, look upon,
   lop, make a selection, make out, mark, mark the interface, mention,
   mine, mutilate, name, nip, notice, observe, opt for, outlaw, pare,
   peel, perceive, pick, pick out, pin down, pluck out, pluck up,
   point at, point out, point to, prefer, prune, pull, pull out,
   pull up, purge, put aside, quarantine, quarry, rake out, recognize,
   refer to, remove, riddle, rip out, root out, root up, rule out,
   screen, screen out, seclude, see, segregate, select, separate, set,
   set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize,
   shave, shear, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sight, signify,
   single out, sort, sort out, specialize, specify, split hairs, spot,
   spy, stamp out, stand for, state, stigmatize, stipulate,
   strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, subdivide, subtilize,
   symbol, symbolize, take in, take off, take out, tear out, thrash,
   thresh, throw over, throw overboard, touch on, truncate, twig,
   typify, unearth, unravel, uproot, view, weed out, winnow, wipe out,
   withdraw, witness, wrest out