Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

pick out

verb

Forms picks out picking out picked out

verb (transitive) To remove by picking.
verb (transitive) To select.
verb (transitive, idiomatic) To distinguish; discern.
verb (transitive) To ornament or relieve with lines etc. of a different, usually lighter, colour. “a dark green carriage body picked out with red”
verb (transitive, idiomatic) To detect using one's senses (sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste).
verb (transitive, idiomatic, soccer) To send a long pass or cross to.
verb (transitive) To play music slowly, such as when practicing.

Synonyms

From pick + out. Compare Saterland Frisian uutpikke (“to pick out”), Dutch uitpikken (“to pick out”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “pick out”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details