pluck

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To pull something sharply; to pull something out

   “She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.”

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

   “First of all, he says a lot of the promotions from the ranks are promotions of the sons of officers who have gone wrong , or got "plucked," or what not, and who are brought up again along another road for commissioned rank.”

3. fiil To play (a single string on a musical instrument) by pulling and then releasing it, such as on a guitar.

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

4. fiil To remove feathers from (a bird).

   “Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.”

5. fiil To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).

   “Indeed they seem to consider foreigners as strangers whom they should never see again, and might fairly pluck.”

6. fiil To play a string instrument pizzicato.

   “Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.”

7. fiil To pull or twitch sharply.

   “to pluck at somebody's sleeve”

8. fiil To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.

   “For arguing that a man will be plucked take the Topics following: for among men likely to be plucked are these for the most part. He that hath no friends, he that hath many friends; the first because he hath none to put him in the right way; the second, because he hath many to draw him therefrom.”

9. fiil Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
10. isim An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.

    “Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.”

11. isim The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
12. isim Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

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

13. isim Cheap wine.