Word Finder - plucking

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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.

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(gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.

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A fragment of something obtained by plucking.

In northern India the plucking season begins in April.

He threw one long leg across the other and glanced around, absently plucking a package of cigarettes from his shirt pocket.

The plucking is done by women and children, and is now practically the only part of the work where the tea is touched by hand.

The herb rue is potent against them, as in British folk-lore, and a man long captive among the Jan escaped from them by observing their avoidance of rue, and by plucking two handfuls thereof.

To take more than this would he considered coarse and less would be fine plucking.

The plucking season continues in some districts of India till December.

This idea that material representation involves a profanation of divine personages, while disallowing all religious art which goes beyond scroll-work, spirals, flourishes and geometrical designs, yet admits to the full of secular art; and accordingly the iconoclastic emperors replaced the holy pictures in churches with frescoes of hunting scenes, and covered their palaces with garden scenes where men were plucking fruit and birds singing amid the foliage.

These parrots often vocalize when plucking to get the human 's attention.

This can easily be corrected by either plucking or using a brow gel to reshape the hair's direction.

He was amazingly good, his fingers plucking the strings with quick nimble strokes.

Adrienne felt the rage tearing at her lungs, plucking at her nerves until she wanted to twist Julie's neck off.

Perhaps I'll move further east and see if the plucking is better when the weather is cooler.

Ed was running beside her, and then a strong arm was plucking her from the ground.

Plucking one from the bush, she rolled the berry in her hand, removing the powdery haze from its surface.

He was in truth the Sicilian bee, and, plucking the flowers of the prophetic and apostolic meadow, he produced a wonderfully pure knowledge in the souls of the listeners."

Thus, plucking and rubbing the ears of corn was counted a form of reaping and threshing.

They can often chase the rest of the flights occupants, plucking feathers from them.

This ' hunt ' involves the fishermen plucking about 2,000 baby gannets from the cliff faces using long poles.

In what cases would " assault and plucking hair " be a greater offense than other forms of assault?

Now I use tweezers, like women plucking eyebrows, for removing unwanted nasal hairs.

Now he rode beside Ilyin under the birch trees, occasionally plucking leaves from a branch that met his hand, sometimes touching his horse's side with his foot, or, without turning round, handing a pipe he had finished to an hussar riding behind him, with as calm and careless an air as though he were merely out for a ride.

A neglected bird will engage in self-destructive behavior, like plucking its own feathers out or making lots of noise.

From smoothing foundation, to plucking stray eyebrow hairs, a lighted cosmetic mirror with a high level of magnification is a must for every woman's beauty toolbox.

Birds are also a big culprit in harvesting blueberries, often plucking the fruit off the plant before it can ripen fully.

The male will court the female by delicately plucking and vibrating her web.

The feel of the pick in your hand combined with the crisp sound that it produces when plucking the strings makes for a unique combination that some musicians fall in love with.

Plucking the strings on both electric and acoustic guitars with a titanium pick produces a very bright, crisp and clear tone.

Brazilian music often uses a distinctive system of plucking strings and then damping them with your strumming hand.

When they bump into each other, they swim in a circle and make sounds like plucking a harp's strings.

One of the best aspects of threading, when compared to waxing or plucking, is that it is an inexpensive service to receive at a salon.

Plucking and waxing may seem like more effective methods than shaving or depilatory creams when it comes to embarrassing facial hair, but the long term results can be highly counterproductive.

Tweezing and plucking is effective to remove unwanted hair, and the effects last longer than with shaving.

While everyone's hair grows at a different pace, waxing is one of the best alternatives to individually plucking eyebrow hairs with a pair of tweezers.

Before randomly plucking brows or slathering on hot wax, however, it is vital to choose a shape that will compliment and accentuate the eyes.

Plucking stray hairs is an effective way of shaping eyebrows, but it is not for the faint of heart.

If plucking is not for you, there are a number of alternatives available to still obtain shapely, luxurious eyebrows.

Plucking may initially be painful, but by using the proper equipment and a consistent technique, it is possible to achieve superior hair removal results for perfectly shaped eyebrows.

This lessens the amount of pain during plucking.

Our confidant (who chose to remain anonymous) recently turned 30 and found the hair on her upper lip was darkening noticeably against her light skin; she'd been plucking stray hairs on her chin for years, but this was a new development.

Each individual pulse was slightly more painful than plucking a single hair, but they happened much more quickly.

This sort of laser hair removal can be a godsend for people who are tired of waxing and plucking and dealing with the ingrown hair ordeal.

Accentuate your female features by plucking the eyebrows, which will make them appear higher and/or thinner.

The signaculum oris forbids all eating of unclean food (which included all bodies of animals, wine, &c. - vegetable diet being allowed because plants contained more light, though the killing of plants, or even plucking their fruit and breaking their twigs, was not permitted), as well as all impure speech.

Trying to obtain matching eyebrows when plucking can be tricky!

The style of plucking is as important to a Brazilian sound as are the chords themselves.

Complete with a strum bar, whammy bar, and five different colored buttons on the neck.The strum bar is a little plastic flipper that clicks up or down, simulating the strumming motion you would make when plucking strings.

In either case, there is a certain "Wow Factor" added by carefully plucking apart the box's clasp and slowly opening the box to reveal the bottle nestled inside.