pick up vs uplift

pick up

verb
  • To collect a passenger. 

  • To acquire (something) accidentally; to catch (a disease). 

  • To collect and detain (a suspect). 

  • To lift; to grasp and raise. 

  • To clean up; to return to an organized state. 

  • To point out the behaviour, habits, or actions of (a person) in a critical manner; used with on. 

  • To meet and seduce somebody for romantic purposes, especially in a social situation. 

  • To receive calls; to function correctly. 

  • To record; to notch up. 

  • To learn, to grasp; to begin to understand; to realize. 

  • To promote somebody who was previously passed over. 

  • To collect an object, especially in passing. 

  • To answer a telephone. 

  • To take control (physically) of something. 

  • To mark, to defend against an opposition player by following them closely. 

  • To behave in a manner that results in a foul. 

  • To restart or resume. 

  • To receive (a radio signal or the like). 

  • To notice, detect or discern; to pick up on 

  • To improve, increase, or speed up. 

  • To reduce the despondency of. 

  • To pay for. 

  • To obtain and publish a story, news item, etc. 

uplift

verb
  • To be accepted for carriage on a flight. 

  • To aggravate; to increase. 

  • To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional level. 

  • To remove (a child) from a damaging home environment by a social welfare organization. 

  • To remove (a document) from its current possessor and take it into one's own possession. 

noun
  • An increase in a fine or penalty due to aggravating circumstances. 

  • The picking up and loading of goods to be transported by a mover. 

  • The act or result of being uplifted. 

  • A brassiere that raises the breasts. 

  • A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building. 

How often have the words pick up and uplift occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )