Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
- (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
- (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
- (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
- (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato
- (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
- (UK, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.
Substantiivit
- An instance of plucking
- The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
- Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
Esimerkit
- She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
- The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
- Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
- 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.
- The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.
- Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.
- to pluck at somebody's sleeve
- He went to college, and he got— plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law.
- Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
- He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | plucked | Partisiipin perfekti | pluckt (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin perfekti | pluck'd (vanhentunut) | Imperfekti | plucked |
| Imperfekti | pluckt (vanhentunut) | Imperfekti | pluck'd (vanhentunut) |
| Partisiipin preesens | plucking | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | plucks |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | plucketh (vanhahtava) |