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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /plʌk/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-pluck.ogg
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Noun

  1. nerve|Nerve, fortitude, or persistence.
  2. : He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
  3. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.


Translations

  • Hungarian:

Verb

{{en-verb|plucks|plucking|plucked or obsolete, pluckt}}

  1. To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  2. : She plucked the phone from her bag and phoned her friend.
  3. In the Context of To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin, etc.
  4. : Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
  5. To remove feathers from a bird.


Translations

  • Dutch: plukken
  • Finnish:
  • French:
  • Hungarian:

See also


References


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pluck \Pluck\, v. i.
To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at;
as, to pluck at one's gown.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pluck \Pluck\, n.
1. The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.
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2. [Prob. so called as being plucked out after the animal is
killed; or cf. Gael. & Ir. pluc a lump, a knot, a bunch.]
The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.
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3. Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.
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Decay of English spirit, decay of manly pluck.
--Thackeray.
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4. The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at
college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
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5. (Zool.) The lyrie. [Prov. Eng.]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Pluck \Pluck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Plucked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Plucking.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G.
pfl["u]cken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka.
?27.]
1. To pull; to draw.
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Its own nature . . . plucks on its own dissolution.
--Je?. Taylor.
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2. Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to
pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch;
also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a
fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
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I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.
--Milton.
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E'en children followed, with endearing wile,
And plucked his gown to share the good man's smile.
--Goldsmith.
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3. To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
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They which pass by the way do pluck her. --Ps.
lxxx.?2.
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4. (Eng. Universities) To reject at an examination for
degrees. --C. Bront['e].
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To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to
tear away.

To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a
lower state.

to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck off the
skin.

to pluck up.
(a) To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to
eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up
a plant; to pluck up a nation. --Jer. xii. 17.
(b) To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lyrie \Ly"rie\ (l[imac]"r[i^]), n. [Icel. hl[=y]ri a sort of
fish.] (Zool.)
A European fish (Peristethus cataphractum), having the body
covered with bony plates, and having three spines projecting
in front of the nose; -- called also noble, pluck,
pogge, sea poacher, and armed bullhead.
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WordNet pluck
n 1: the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of
possible loss or injury [syn: gutsiness, pluckiness]
[ant: gutlessness]
2: the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
v 1: pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
[syn: tweak, pull off, pick off]
2: sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and
especially underhanded activity [syn: hustle, roll]
3: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak,
surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, rob, hook]
[ant: undercharge]
4: pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked
the strings of his mandolin" [syn: plunk, pick]
5: strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" [syn:
pull, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume]
6: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn:
pick, cull]
Moby Dictionary
accumulate , amass , assemble , avulse , backbone , bare , bleed ,
bleed white , bob , boldness , bottle , bottom , bravery , bring in ,
bring together , bust , catch at , chutzpah , collect , courage , crop ,
crop herbs , cull , cut , cut out , dauntlessness , denudate , denude ,
deplume , deracinate , despoil , determination , dig , dig out , dig up ,
disentangle , displume , divest , drain , draw , draw out , dredge ,
dredge up , dry , eradicate , evolve , evulse , excavate , excise ,
exhaust , expose , exsect , extract , extricate , fail , flay , fleece ,
flick , flip , flirt , flounce , flunk , flunk out , fortitude , gameness ,
gather , gather in , get in , get out , get together , glean , gouge out ,
grab , grabble , grit , grub , grub up , guts , gutsiness , guttiness ,
hardiness , harvest , hay , heart , heart of oak , hitch , impoverish ,
intestinal fortitude , intrepidity , jerk , jig , jigger , jigget ,
jiggle , jog , joggle , lay bare , lay open , mettle , mettlesomeness ,
milk , mine , mow , moxie , nerve , nut , pick , pick clean , pick out ,
pick up , pith , pluck out , pluck up , pluckiness , plunk , pull ,
pull out , pull up , quarry , rake out , rake up , reap , reap and carry ,
remove , resolution , resolve , rip out , root out , root up , round up ,
sand , scare up , scrape together , scrape up , shear , skin , snake ,
snatch , spirit , spunk , spunkiness , stamina , start , steadfastness ,
stout heart , stoutness , strip , strip bare , strum , sturdiness ,
suck dry , sudden pull , sweep the strings , take out , take up ,
tear out , thrum , toughness , true grit , twang , tweak , twitch ,
uncloak , uncover , unearth , unravel , unsheathe , unveil , uproot ,
vellicate , wash out , weed out , withdraw , wrench , wrest out , yank ,
yerk


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