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" Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out."
Piers Corbyn

Meaning of "pluck" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PLUCK

Old English pluccian, plyccan; related to German pflücken.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PLUCK

plʌk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLUCK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pluck is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pluck in English.

WHAT DOES PLUCK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pluck in the English dictionary

The first definition of pluck in the dictionary is to pull off from. Other definition of pluck is when intr, foll by at to pull or tug. Pluck is also to pull forcibly or violently.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PLUCK

PRESENT

Present
I pluck
you pluck
he/she/it plucks
we pluck
you pluck
they pluck
Present continuous
I am plucking
you are plucking
he/she/it is plucking
we are plucking
you are plucking
they are plucking
Present perfect
I have plucked
you have plucked
he/she/it has plucked
we have plucked
you have plucked
they have plucked
Present perfect continuous
I have been plucking
you have been plucking
he/she/it has been plucking
we have been plucking
you have been plucking
they have been plucking
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I plucked
you plucked
he/she/it plucked
we plucked
you plucked
they plucked
Past continuous
I was plucking
you were plucking
he/she/it was plucking
we were plucking
you were plucking
they were plucking
Past perfect
I had plucked
you had plucked
he/she/it had plucked
we had plucked
you had plucked
they had plucked
Past perfect continuous
I had been plucking
you had been plucking
he/she/it had been plucking
we had been plucking
you had been plucking
they had been plucking
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will pluck
you will pluck
he/she/it will pluck
we will pluck
you will pluck
they will pluck
Future continuous
I will be plucking
you will be plucking
he/she/it will be plucking
we will be plucking
you will be plucking
they will be plucking
Future perfect
I will have plucked
you will have plucked
he/she/it will have plucked
we will have plucked
you will have plucked
they will have plucked
Future perfect continuous
I will have been plucking
you will have been plucking
he/she/it will have been plucking
we will have been plucking
you will have been plucking
they will have been plucking
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would pluck
you would pluck
he/she/it would pluck
we would pluck
you would pluck
they would pluck
Conditional continuous
I would be plucking
you would be plucking
he/she/it would be plucking
we would be plucking
you would be plucking
they would be plucking
Conditional perfect
I would have pluck
you would have pluck
he/she/it would have pluck
we would have pluck
you would have pluck
they would have pluck
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been plucking
you would have been plucking
he/she/it would have been plucking
we would have been plucking
you would have been plucking
they would have been plucking
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you pluck
we let´s pluck
you pluck
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to pluck
Past participle
plucked
Present Participle
plucking
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLUCK

cluck · luck · misluck · mukluk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLUCK

plu · pluck up · plucker · pluckier · pluckiest · pluckily · pluckiness · plucky · plue · pluff · pluffy · plug · plug and play · plug compatible · plug gauge · plug hat · plug in · plug-and-play · plug-in · plug-uglies

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLUCK

buck · chuck · down on one´s luck · duck · dumb cluck · fuck · Gluck · hard luck · huck · mindfuck · no such luck · pot luck · puck · schmuck · struck · stuck · suck · truck · try one´s luck · tuck

Synonyms and antonyms of pluck in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PLUCK»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pluck» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «pluck» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PLUCK

Find out the translation of pluck to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pluck from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pluck» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

采摘
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

coger
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pluck
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

बांधना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نتف
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

ливер
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

colher
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

সাহস
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

cueillir
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Memetik
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

pflücken
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

摘む
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

뽑다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ngguyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự can đảm
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பறித்து
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

खुडणे
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yolmak
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

cogliere
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

oskubać
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

лівер
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

curaj
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κόβω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pluck
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mod
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nappe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pluck

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLUCK»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of pluck
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «pluck».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pluck

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PLUCK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pluck.
1
William Bernbach
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
2
Hamish Bowles
My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
3
Piers Corbyn
Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.
4
Robert Edwards
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.
5
Loren Eiseley
One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.
6
Isla Fisher
I'm not actually very good at the maintenance thing. I don't buff, exfoliate, pluck, rinse, moisturise, suck, bleach... whatever all those women do.
7
Isabelle Fuhrman
I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
8
George Grosz
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
9
Muhammad Iqbal
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
10
Arizona Muse
I don't have to do a lot to my eyebrows. My mom always told me not to pluck them, which is great advice.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLUCK»

Discover the use of pluck in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pluck and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Andy Grant's Pluck
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide.
Horatio Alger, 2012
2
Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Allen Chapman, 1stworld Library, 2006
3
By Sheer Pluck (Webster's Korean Thesaurus Edition)
By using a running English-to-Korean thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of By Sheer Pluck by G.A. Henty was edited for three audiences.
G A Henty, 2008
4
Bradley Pluck and the Skydrivers
Life will never be the same again in the small village of Upperbump for Bradley Pluck and his friends.
Heidi Soder, 2006
5
Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest ...
In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a spidery plot to destroy the solar system.
Philip Reeve, 2007
6
Fuzz & Pluck
New York cartoonist/animator Ted Stearn is currently working as a mainstay for MTV animation.
Ted Stearn, 1999
7
Pluck the Hanging Gold
Then get ready to pluck the hanging gold. Ready? Now is the promising time. If you cannot pluck the hanging gold now, which is but its season, WHEN THEN ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT? To pluck the hanging gold is a thing graced with not  ...
S. A. Abakwue, 2001
8
And They Pluck Out Your Eyes
A novel set against the failed coup d'etat in Spain of 1981. It follows the lives of a cross section of society in the three months leading up to the coup, and the week following.
Paul House, 2007
9
Pluck and Scrape
Introduces the string instruments, and provides instructions for making simple examples from common household articles
Sally Hewitt, Peter Millard, 1995
10
The Complete Poems of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali: Texts ...
Poem # 06 Pluck This Little Flower Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it droop and drop into the dust. I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end ...
S K Paul, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLUCK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pluck is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Bucks possess plenty of promise with Greg Monroe, now they need …
The pluck and promise of the Milwaukee Bucks has been made tangible. Greg Monroe, a 24-year-old big man in the max contract market, ... «SI.com, Jul 15»
2
Steve Cishek trade analysis: Why did the St. Louis Cardinals add a …
This includes the likes of Daniel Descalso (there's no way to pluck out position players who pitched in blowouts). So far in 2015, 459 players ... «Viva El Birdos, Jul 15»
3
In 'Vacation', Rusty is no Clark, but it's still a great trip with the …
Helms' Rusty has all the pluck but none of the sex appeal, an element that is glaringly missing from Vacation, particularly during a winning ... «Mashable, Jul 15»
4
How powerful is the most popular girl in the sixth grade? Think back
How triumphant is the most popular girl in your sixth grade? Could you pluck her name immediately from your memory banks? Are you already ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
5
Confronting Tragedy with Comedy with Naomi Ekperigin
So yeah, I had my day job and I was trying to do that well and was like, “Well, if someone decides to pluck me from obscurity I'll go that way. «Splitsider, Jul 15»
6
South Hadley's arts, music festival keeps on growing
She showed them which fret to place a finger on and then which string to pluck: “That's a 'C,'” she said. Jillian and Brendan Scott, both 5, were ... «GazetteNET, Jul 15»
7
Arsenal transfer news: Is Arsene Wenger right when he says Arsenal …
Be it Karim Benzema, Alexandre Lacazette, Robert Lewandowski or any other name you care you pluck out of some European club, the ... «Metro, Jul 15»
8
No matter how you slice them, tomatoes are taste of summer
... someone figures out how to ship the thin-skinned, lush and juicy tomatoes that we pluck from vines in our backyards or buy at local markets. «Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jul 15»
9
Why we're probably stuck with our hopeless system of cartel politics
Today they compete with each other in a game of Assembly Collapse Bingo, in which they pluck dates at random and nominate them as the ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jul 15»
10
Could the 'Pluck-Ness' monster really be a terrapin?
A still from Kyle's video of the creature in the Pluck and, right, a terrapin. VIEW GALLERY. Could the 'Pluck-Ness' monster really be a terrapin? «South Wales Evening Post, Jul 15»
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