choose, take, select, pick out: 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"
spot, recognize, recognise, distinguish, discern, pick out, make out, tell apart: 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"
