Definizione monolingua

pluck

pluck (third-person singular simple present plucks, present participle plucking, simple past and past participle plucked or obsolete, pluckt)

1. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

   She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.

2. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

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

3. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
4. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

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

5. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato

   Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break

6. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply

pluck (uncountable)

1. An instance of plucking

   Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck

2. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
3. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

   He didnt get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.

Definizione dizionario pluck

	cogliere
	To look for and gather.

rompere

staccare

	corata
	offal from the trunk of an animal

	coratella
	offal from the trunk of an animal

	pizzicare
	music: to gently play a single string

	raccogliere
	To look for and gather.

	spennare
	to remove feathers from a bird

coraggio

dividere

fegato

frattaglie

pelare

spiccare

spicciolare

spiumare

spiumatura

strappare

strappo

svellere

tirare

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply

to pull something sharply; to pull something out

(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.

pluck (usually from a tree)

(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato

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

to rob, steal forcibly

Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

(transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly

An instance of plucking

(transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

nerve, fortitude, persistence