pluck

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

plucks

V_ing/Gerund

plucking

V_ed/pp

pluckedpluckt

1.
(transitive)To pull something sharply; to pull something out
She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
2.
(transitive)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.
(transitive)(transitive, music) 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.
(transitive)To remove feathers from (a bird).
Đồng nghĩa: defeather
5.
(archaic, transitive)(transitive, now rare) To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).
6.
(transitive)To play a string instrument pizzicato.
Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.
7.
(intransitive)To pull or twitch sharply.
to pluck at somebody's sleeve
8.
(UK, obsolete, transitive)(UK, university slang, transitive, obsolete) To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
9.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

plucks

1.
(countable, uncountable)An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
2.
(countable, uncountable)The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
3.
(figuratively, informal, uncountable)(informal, figurative, uncountable) Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
Đồng nghĩa: audacity, balls, bield, boldhead, boldness, bravehood, braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, daring, fearlessness, grit, guts, heart, intrepidity, intrepidness, mood, nerve, ovaries, pecker, pluck, spunk, steel, undauntedness, valour
4.
(slang, uncountable)(African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Cheap wine.
Đồng nghĩa: plonk

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Đồng nghĩa

defeatheraudacityballs bieldboldheadboldnessbravehoodbravenessbravery couragecourageousnessdaringfearlessnessgrit guts heartintrepidityintrepidnessmood nerve

Cùng gốc / liên quan

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English plucken, plukken, plockien, from Old English pluccian, ploccian (to pluck, pull away, tear), also plyċċan ("to pluck, pull, snatch; pluck with desire"), from *plukkōn, from Proto-Germanic *plukkōną, *plukkijaną (to pluck), of uncertain and disputed origin.