pick up vs find

pick up is not a noun while find is a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pick up	No	No	Yes	No
find	Yes	No	Yes	No

pick up (noun)	find (noun)
	the act of discovering something
	a productive insight

pick up (verb)	find (verb)
gain or regain energy	receive a specified treatment (abstract)
improve significantly; go from bad to good	accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation
lift out or reflect from a background	come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally	establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
eat by pecking at, like a bird	decide on and make a declaration about
take into custody	make a discovery, make a new finding
take up by hand	succeed in reaching; arrive at
fill with high spirits; fill with optimism	perceive or be contemporaneous with
give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift	discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes
take and lift upward	perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place
perceive with the senses quickly, suddenly, or momentarily	come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
register (perceptual input)	get something or somebody for a specific purpose
buy casually or spontaneously	come upon, as if by accident; meet with
gather or collect	obtain through effort or management
get in addition, as an increase	get or find back; recover the use of
meet someone for sexual purposes