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pluck 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/plək/,
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plucking, present participle; plucked, past tense; plucks, 3rd person singular present; plucked, past participle;
  1. Take hold of (something) and quickly remove it from its place; pick
    • - she plucked a blade of grass
    • - he plucked a tape from the shelf
  2. Catch hold of and pull quickly
    • - she plucked his sleeve
    • - brambles plucked at her jeans
  3. Quickly or suddenly remove someone from a dangerous or unpleasant situation
    • - the baby was plucked from a grim foster home
  4. Pull the feathers from (a bird's carcass) to prepare it for cooking

  5. Pull some of the hairs from (one's eyebrows) to make them look neater

  6. Sound (a musical instrument or its strings) with one's finger or a plectrum

  7. Select for a move to a new job or position
    • - many managers were plucked from the company's overseas operations
Noun
  1. Spirited and determined courage; guts

  2. The heart, liver, and lungs of an animal as food

  1. gutsiness: the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
  2. pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
  3. hustle: sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
  4. the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
  5. overcharge: rip off; ask an unreasonable price
  6. pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
  7. "P.L.U.C.K." (Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers) is the 13th song in the 1998 eponymous first album by the alternative metal band System of a Down. The music was composed by guitarist Daron Malakian and the lyrics were written by singer Serj Tankian. ...
  8. Pluck is a trick-taking playing card game for four players (two teams of two). The game is played similar to Spades and Hearts. A standard deck of playing cards is dealt out (excluding jokers) evenly among the players. The objective is to get ten points (called plucks) before the other team.
  9. Pluck was an American Internet company based in Austin, Texas, that ran a website since 2005 that offered an RSS reader. The company was acquired by Demand Media on March 3, 2008 for US$75 million in cash.
  10. Plucking can mean the process of removing human hair, animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's body.
  11. The thoracic cavity (or chest cavity) is the chamber of the human body (and other animal bodies) that is protected by the thoracic wall (thoracic cage and associated skin, muscle, and fascia).
  12. Pluck, also known as pluck-cms, is an open source content management system, written in the PHP scripting language. It allows for easy webpage creation for users with little or no programming experience, and, unlike most content management systems, does not use a database to store its data. ...
  13. An instance of plucking; The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals; Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence; To pull something sharply; to pull something out; To gently play a single string, e.g. ...
  14. (plucky) Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances
  15. (Plucked) fur that has the guard hairs removed
  16. (Plucking) to emphasize the velvet underhair of the fur. All guard hairs are plucked before shearing.
  17. (Plucking) a type of erosion where melt water in the glacier freezes onto rocks, and as the ice moves forward it plucks or pulls out large pieces along the rock joints.
  18. (Plucking) The process of harvesting the tea by cutting the flush from the growing tea shrub.
  19. (Plucking) (plucked string instruments; เครื่องดีด, khrueang dit)
  20. (Plucking) A glacial erosion process in which fragments or blocks of bedrock are first loosened by the expansion of freezing water in fractures and joints and then picked up and removed as the overlying glacial ice advances.
  21. (Plucking) From the foot of a piece, the pulling away of slivers of material that have stuck to the kiln shelf during glaze firing, due to the the clay body (usually porcelain) becoming vitreous/sticky at the maturing temperature. Seriously annoying. ...
  22. (Plucking) The mechanical removal of pieces of rock from a bedrock face that is in contact with glacier ice. Blocks are quarried and prepared for removal by the freezing and thawing of water in cracks, joints, and fractures. ...
  23. (Plucking) The physical removal of tea leaves, usually the two leaves and a bud, from a tea bush.
  24. (Plucking) When the draw hand is pulled away from the face on release.
  25. (Plucking) is the process involves the glacier freezing onto the valley sides and subsequent ice movement pulling away masses of rock. As the bedrock is greater in strength than the glacier, only previously loosened material can be removed. ...