plucked

«plucked» in Mova's school dictionary: pulled off or picked with the fingers, as in plucked… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (past and past participle of «pluck»: pluck, plucks, plucked, plucking); adjective (plucked)

meaning for a pupil

1) Plucked means pulled off or picked with the fingers, as in plucked flowers or fruit. tree →

2) Plucked means having had the feathers pulled out, as in a plucked chicken. tree →

3) Plucked means played by pulling and letting go of the strings, as on a guitar or harp. tree →

4) Plucked can mean pulled quickly out of somewhere, as in «plucked from the sea» by a rescuer. tree →

5) If someone plucked up courage, they made themselves brave. tree →

sense in the lessons

In music lessons, plucked string instruments (guitar, harp, ukulele) are compared with bowed ones (violin, cello). In stories, «plucked up the courage» shows a nervous character being brave. In news, a helicopter crew «plucked» people from a flood. Phrases: «plucked up courage», «plucked from obscurity», «plucked eyebrows», «plucked a string».

examples

• She plucked an apple from the tree. tree →
• Finally, Tom plucked up the courage to ask for help. tree →
• The harpist plucked the strings gently. tree →
• The farmer plucked the chicken before cooking it. tree →
• A lifeboat crew plucked the fisherman from the waves. tree →
• He plucked a number out of thin air as a guess. tree →
• The guitar's plucked notes echoed round the hall. tree →
• They had plucked out all their feathers. tree →

note

Regular past form of «pluck». «Pluck» as a noun also means courage (she showed pluck); «plucky» means brave. Do not confuse with «plugged».

In the corpora

• The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings.
• The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years.
• Doth the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or are the strange cold flowing waters plucked up?
• But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the faithless shall be plucked up out of it.
• Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «plucked» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.