Word Finder - pluck

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An instance of plucking.

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Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.

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The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

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Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

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He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.

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Cheap wine.

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• plonk

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To pull something sharply; to pull something out

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She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.

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To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

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To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

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Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.

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To remove feathers from a bird.

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To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

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The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.

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To play a string instrument pizzicato.

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Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.

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To pull or twitch sharply.

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to pluck at somebody's sleeve

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(university slang) To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree.

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Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

I'll pluck their eyes from their head!

She smelt of the flowers, but showed no desire to pluck them; and, when I gathered a few for her, she refused to have them pinned on her dress.

Pluck the leaves from the stems; discard the stems.

If you want to play any of these notes, you can just pluck at the string and it will ring out.

When setting out to pluck, there are a few things to consider first.

With practice, it only takes seconds to pluck hairs for a smooth, flawless look.

I can never get them even when I pluck them, and when I like one eyebrow I can't get the other to match.

When the time comes for dessert, simply pluck a cupcake off the display and enjoy!

It is nearly impossible to get precise results with hot wax, and using tweezers to pluck one hair at a time can feel like an eternity of torture.

Paper Monitor would sooner pluck out its own eyebrows than read a match report, yet manages to find a few nuggets.

Many Internet tuners require a player to listen to a note, pluck the corresponding string on her guitar and tune the string to match perfectly.

To hit a note, you simply pluck the strings with the fingers of your other hand.

While you may be able to easily pluck a frame off the rack at the optical shop when you go in for your eye appointment, if you're having trouble, it's worth asking to look through a catalog or to browse through one online.

With a sophisticated western flair and a pluck of eastern influence, the music plays poignantly to the emotions of the scenes in which it is featured.

The anubis baboons, as shown by the frescoes, were tamed by the ancient Egyptians and trained to pluck sycamore-figs from the trees.

This Chinese lute is like a Spanish guitar in some ways, with finger nails being used to pluck the strings.

Thousands of microscopic robots armed with tiny tweezers could pluck the Moon bare in a matter of weeks.

In India these animals are hunted with foxhounds or greyhounds, and from their cunning and pluck afford excellent sport.

Then pluck at the 4th fret and you will get a note that still relates but in a more distant way.

Get into a spin on a human gyroscope, pluck a magical harp and be led astray by a runaway briefcase.

String with a simple soundboard Pluck the string and listen.

Snip, rinse and pluck the leaves off the herb plant.

Use it to magnify your face as you apply makeup or pluck your eyebrows.

Each guest can pluck a cupcake from the tower or "cupcake bar" and carry it back to his or her own table.

You can pluck caterpillar pests by hand; they can often be found on the undersides of leaves.

Many gardeners have reached into the green leaves to pluck a berry, only to feel the harsh sting of an angry wasp, hornet or bee who was also sampling the wares.

Classical guitarists don't pluck the strings with the tips of their fingers or with picks.

The traditional technique is to grow long fingernails and use these nails to pluck the strings.

Following these basic instructions, you can also learn to pluck out a melody line when the fret indications are staggared along the lines, rather than aligned from top to bottom as they are for chords.

When a pick loses its picking edge, you are less likely to get an accurate pluck when you attempt to play a note.

Bossa Nova is typically played on a nylon string guitar using the fingers to pluck the string.

Generally you pluck the lowest string with your thumb and the three highest strings with three of your fingers.

Individuals who continue to wax or pluck out facial hairs are also more at risk for follicular scarring or sensitive skin that can lead to ingrown hairs.

Try not to pluck gray strands, because the scalp is not as resilient and the strands may not regrow, resulting in thinner, uneven hair.As hair loses moisture, it also becomes thinner and limper, with greater possibility of hair loss.

Tweezing individual hairs is not suitable for everyone, and opting to pluck in less than ideal circumstances can lead to uneven eyebrows, excessive pain, or even eye injury.

Seek professional services at a beauty salon; the technicians may pluck, wax, or trim brows and can do so with far less inconvenience than home treatments.

Even if you choose to wax your brows instead, it may be necessary to pluck hairs that do not adhere to the wax properly or to refine the brow shape as additional hairs grow in.

Furthermore, tweezing is great for touching up any stray hairs, giving every woman the ability to perfect her look with a simple pluck.

If you had the pluck of a weevil in a cookie you would catch them still.

Areas on the ship are also set up just for jam sessions, so feel free to bring your instruments and pluck away.

Fretboard charts have one "line" for each string on the bass, and as you progress from left to right down that line, you'll see the note that is created when you pluck the string while pressing each string to a particular fret.

Monkeys in the trees gaze, pluck leaves, scamper down the highways, make out.

It is easier to pluck your eyebrows enough to clear the way for shadow and liner, then leave the rest up to Mother Nature.

But our lady, the cook, with true British pluck, was not dispirited.

Continue to pluck at each string until all of the strings are in tune.

Best I pluck one from their pack and nicely convince that person to share their secret with Daddy!

An unprovoked attack from the boy next above him led to a fight, in which Newton's pluck gave him the victory.

To be able to pluck two such treasures and eliminate another is worthy of praise from high!

If we pluck io-i I.

Forster's pluck in speaking out like this was fully appreciated in England, but it was not till after the revelations connected with the Phoenix Park murders that the dangers he had confronted were properly realized, and it became known that several plans to murder him had only been frustrated by the merest accidents.