Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the long stiff hairs removed: said of the pelt of a fur-seal.
- Endowed with pluck or courage: with a qualifying adjective.
Wiktionary
- v. simple past tense and past participle of pluck.
- adj. Having had these items removed by plucking.
- adj. Played by plucking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having courage and spirit.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum
- adj. having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl
Examples
“The creature was first discovered in 2007 in Peru when a specimen was plucked from the nose of a girl who had been bathing in a river.”
“Forget the diamond advertisements because that first slab of unctuous fois gras was orgasmically earth-shaking, or that first perfectly ripe, just plucked from the vine heirloom tomato.”
“Initially feared lost, Mr. Domino was plucked from a third-floor deck by an emergency boat.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Rhythm of Rock 'n' Roll: 'It's All in the 1, 2, 3'
“The images finally displayed for assessment read quite clearly as images aimed at unity, aimed at a sense of the sublime, but falling short – rendered out of fragments plucked from the deluge, there is an impossibility of ever completing that perfect image, and possibly of ever recovering the sought after depth and significance of the image.”
“The sultry magic of the fabled ship draws Kenton into its dreamworld, where a strange crew plucked from the ages sails in a lushly imagined mystical seascape.”
“The studio can barely accommodate the band, the crew and dozens of additional players, including singers, a string section, percussionists and eight horn players plucked from the Grammy in the Schools program.”
“My radio dramas with both the BBC and CBC were plucked from the murky depths of the slush pile, and the meetings and phone calls I had with agents before I signed a contract, all came from here as well.”
“But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class.”
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“But if your 'story' is correct; that there is a huge supply of unskilled peasants who could be plucked from the farm and put behind idiot-proof machines then there should be no middle class”
Outsourcing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Keeping people from starving to death is a fine cause to rally behind, some % savings rate plucked from a hat is not.”
Trade Deficit, Saving, and Tax Policy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘plucked’.
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Jane Eyre
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Dictation words
Dictation Word list
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Moose Jaw words
So, I'm writing a story set in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. These are words I either use a lot, or new words I am proud of having worked into my story.
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