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pluck

pluck

6.1
A quick pull and release of a string that makes a sound
  • noun
  • /plʌk/
translation icon : punteo
  • The strings do all the work while Wolf patches in handclaps, plucks, and portentous strum.

Perhaps over time that pluck will be smaller, the string will be tighter, and the vibration will last a shorter time.

Examples

  • They know how to rev it up and slow it down, whether they kick up the distortion or hone in on each pluck of.

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  • It's a little harder to pick and actually pluck with the same rapidity that you can on a guitar.

  • It's like, OK, sister, pluck the first string.

  • Suppose I pluck a string on my harp producing a certain note.

  • And if you had, you know, a long string and like I put that little pluck in it and you can see that pluck running back and forth on it, that's the speed it's going at.

  • Perhaps over time that pluck will be smaller, the string will be tighter, and the vibration will last a shorter time.

  • It's one string and a giant lever, and you pluck the harmonics, and it's supposed to be an intimate instrument, I think sometimes played by the blind.

  • That's the plucking, the, the tucking the the gaffers tape to make yourself look like you have breastfaces.

  • I found the plucking so mind numbing, I took a break for a day and upholstered the captain's chair for my Captain Kirk's captain's chair.

  • When you pluck a string on the guitar, it produces a beautiful sound.

How Strong

to strike
155 4.2
snap
45 3.6
pluck
6.1
touch
130 1.8

Surface Forms

pluck singular
plucks plural

Etymology

The noun pluck is the quick pull of a string to make a sound and comes from the same old English root pluccian meaning 'to pull', so a guitar pluck is simply a small, sharp pull of the string.