engelska-svenska översättning av pluck

plocka
Vi tillhör alla en och samma art, och vi har fortfarande möjlighet att plocka de bästa blommorna i livets trädgård.We are all members of a single species, which is still capable of plucking the best flowers from the garden of life. I själva verket blir kycklingarna inte helt bedövade, med följden att de slängs i hett vatten medan de fortfarande lever: de skållas så att de kan plockas.In fact, the chickens are not completely stunned, with the result that they are plunged into hot water while they are still alive: they are boiled so that they can be plucked. På hösten plockar jag alltid kantareller i skogen.

To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To take or remove quickly from a particular place or situation
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc
To remove feathers from a bird
To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
To play a string instrument pizzicato
To pull or twitch sharply
To be rejected after failing an examination for a degree
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. see "plucking" on Wikipedia--
An instance of plucking
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals
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She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it
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 somebodys sleeve
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
He didnt get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck

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