pluck

Definition von pluck im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence
He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.; To play a string instrument pizzicato
Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.; An instance of plucking
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.; The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals; To remove feathers from a bird; To pull or twitch sharply; To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.; To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.; To pull something sharply; to pull something out
She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.; {n} a quck pull, the heart, liver and lights; {v} to snatch, pull, strip off fethers, take; If you pluck a guitar or other musical instrument, you pull the strings with your fingers and let them go, so that they make a sound. Nell was plucking a harp; To make a motion of pulling or twitching; usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown; sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity; pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush; The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch; Nerve, fortitude, or persistence; the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord; {f} pull out feathers (as of a chicken); tear out; cause to fail; deceive, cheat; To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin, etc; 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; The heart, liver, and lights of an animal; If you pluck something from somewhere, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply from where it is. He plucked the cigarette from his mouth and tossed it out into the street; {i} internal organs of animals (used for food); pulling, tugging; failure; daring, spunk; courage; pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"; If you pluck a chicken or other dead bird, you pull its feathers out to prepare it for cooking. She looked relaxed as she plucked a chicken; To reject at an examination for degrees; strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"; the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"; pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"; To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl; If a woman plucks her eyebrows, she pulls out some of the hairs using tweezers. You've plucked your eyebrows at last!; The lyrie; To pull; to draw; The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college; look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"; See Pluck, v; Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude; If you pluck a fruit, flower, or leaf, you take it between your fingers and pull it in order to remove it from its stalk where it is growing. I plucked a lemon from the tree He plucked a stalk of dried fennel; rip off; ask an unreasonable price; If someone unknown is given an important job or role and quickly becomes famous because of it, you can say that they have been plucked from obscurity or plucked from an unimportant position. She was plucked from the corps de ballet to take on Juliet The agency plucked Naomi from obscurity and turned her into one of the world's top models; If you say that someone plucks a figure, name, or date out of the air, you mean that they say it without thinking much about it before they speak. Is this just a figure she plucked out of the air?. courage and determination; the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush; If you pluck up the courage to do something that you feel nervous about, you make an effort to be brave enough to do it. It took me about two hours to pluck up courage to call; the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury; If someone is rescued from a dangerous situation, you can say that they are plucked from it or are plucked to safety. A workman was plucked from the roof of a burning power station by a police helicopter Ten fishermen were plucked to safety from life-rafts
pluck a pigeon: bluff, deceive (Poker)
pluck at: If you pluck at something, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply but gently. The boy plucked at Adam's sleeve
pluck off: humiliate him
pluck up courage: find in oneself the courage to, embolden oneself, find the strength within oneself to
pluck up one's courage: gather one's courage, be courageous
plucked: Having had these items removed by plucking
plucked: Simple past tense and past participle of pluck
plucking: An act in which something is plucked
have a crow to pluck with someone: want to overcome obstacles, want to get past difficulties
plucked: past of pluck
plucked: having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl; "a plucked chicken"; "an unfeathered goose"
plucked: Having courage and spirit
plucked: of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
plucked: Played by plucking
plucked: of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl; "a plucked chicken"; "an unfeathered goose
plucked: {s} brave, courageous
plucker: One who plucks
plucker: A machine for straightening and cleaning wool
plucker: One who, or that which, plucks
plucking: Process which allows glaciers to erode bedrock surfaces via a three stage progression In the first stage (a ), meltwater at the base of the glacier seeps into cracks in the bedrock Once collected in these fractures, the water freezes and expands, further fracturing the rocks and making bedrock debris available to the glacier (b) This debris is then removed either by freezing to the bottom of the glacier or by being dislodged by rocks projecting from the bottom of the ice (c)
plucking: Erosive process of particle detachment by moving glacial ice In this process, basal ice freezes in rock surface cracks As the main body of the glacial ice moves material around the ice in the cracks is pulled and plucked out Also called quarrying
plucking: {i} picking, pulling out, detaching
plucking: The process of harvesting and collecting tea leaves
plucking: present participle of pluck
plucking: the process of harvesting the tea by cutting the flush from the growing tea shrub
plucking: When the draw hand is pulled away from the face on release
plucks: third-person singular of pluck

pluck

Türkische aussprache

plʌk

Synonyme

backbone, boldness, bravery, dauntlessness, determination, grit, guts, hardihood, heart, intestinal fortitude, intrepidity, mettle, moxie, nerve, resolution

Antonyme

cowardice, dispiritedness, irresolution, insert

Aussprache

/ˈplək/ /ˈplʌk/

Etymologie

[ 'pl&k ] (verb.) before 12th century. From Old English pluccian, ploccian, from Proto-West-Germanic, ultimately from Latin pilare (“to deprive of hair, make bald, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Cognate with German pflücken, Dutch plukken, Icelandish plokka, plukka, Danish plukke, Swedish plocka. Noun sense of "heart, liver, and lights of an animal" comes from it being plucked out of the carcas after the animal is killed; the sense of "fortitude, boldness" derives from this meanining, originally being a boxing slang denoting a prize-ring, with semantic development from "heart", the symbol of courage, to "fortitude, boldness".