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Mary'yi bir filme davet etmek için cesaretimi toplasam bile, o beni sattı. - Even though I plucked up courage to invite Mary to a film, she stood me up.

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Definition von plucking im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: An act in which something is plucked; Present participle of pluck; Process which allows glaciers to erode bedrock surfaces via a three stage progression In the first stage (a ), meltwater at the base of the glacier seeps into cracks in the bedrock Once collected in these fractures, the water freezes and expands, further fracturing the rocks and making bedrock debris available to the glacier (b) This debris is then removed either by freezing to the bottom of the glacier or by being dislodged by rocks projecting from the bottom of the ice (c); Erosive process of particle detachment by moving glacial ice In this process, basal ice freezes in rock surface cracks As the main body of the glacial ice moves material around the ice in the cracks is pulled and plucked out Also called quarrying; {i} picking, pulling out, detaching; The process of harvesting and collecting tea leaves; the process of harvesting the tea by cutting the flush from the growing tea shrub; When the draw hand is pulled away from the face on release
plucking post: A raised structure such as a tree stump which is used regularly by a bird of prey to dismember its prey, removing feathers and various other inedible parts before consuming it
plucking posts: plural form of plucking post
plucking one's eyebrows: removing hairs from the eyebrows
pluck: Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence
He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.
pluck: To play a string instrument pizzicato
Plucking a bow instrument may cause a string to break.
pluck: An instance of plucking
Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck.
pluck: The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals
pluck: To remove feathers from a bird
pluck: To pull or twitch sharply
pluck: To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc
Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
pluck: To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
The horny highwayman plucked his victims to their underwear, or attractive ones all the way.
pluck: {n} a quck pull, the heart, liver and lights
pluck: {v} to snatch, pull, strip off fethers, take
pluck: If you pluck a guitar or other musical instrument, you pull the strings with your fingers and let them go, so that they make a sound. Nell was plucking a harp
pluck: To make a motion of pulling or twitching; usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown
pluck: sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity
pluck: pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush
pluck: The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch
pluck: Nerve, fortitude, or persistence
pluck: the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord
pluck: {f} pull out feathers (as of a chicken); tear out; cause to fail; deceive, cheat
pluck: To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin, etc
pluck: Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes
pluck: The heart, liver, and lights of an animal
pluck: If you pluck something from somewhere, you take it between your fingers and pull it sharply from where it is. He plucked the cigarette from his mouth and tossed it out into the street
pluck: {i} internal organs of animals (used for food); pulling, tugging; failure; daring, spunk; courage
pluck: pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush"
pluck: If you pluck a chicken or other dead bird, you pull its feathers out to prepare it for cooking. She looked relaxed as she plucked a chicken
pluck: To reject at an examination for degrees
pluck: strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
pluck: the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
pluck: pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
pluck: To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl
pluck: If a woman plucks her eyebrows, she pulls out some of the hairs using tweezers. You've plucked your eyebrows at last!
pluck: The lyrie
pluck: To pull; to draw
pluck: The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college
pluck: To pull something sharply; to pull something out
pluck: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers"
pluck: See Pluck, v
pluck: Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude
pluck: If you pluck a fruit, flower, or leaf, you take it between your fingers and pull it in order to remove it from its stalk where it is growing. I plucked a lemon from the tree He plucked a stalk of dried fennel
pluck: rip off; ask an unreasonable price
pluck: If someone unknown is given an important job or role and quickly becomes famous because of it, you can say that they have been plucked from obscurity or plucked from an unimportant position. She was plucked from the corps de ballet to take on Juliet The agency plucked Naomi from obscurity and turned her into one of the world's top models
pluck: If you say that someone plucks a figure, name, or date out of the air, you mean that they say it without thinking much about it before they speak. Is this just a figure she plucked out of the air?. courage and determination
pluck: the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord strip of feathers; "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon" pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion; "he plucked the strings of his mandolin" pull or pull out sharply; "pluck the flowers off the bush
pluck: If you pluck up the courage to do something that you feel nervous about, you make an effort to be brave enough to do it. It took me about two hours to pluck up courage to call
pluck: the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
pluck: If someone is rescued from a dangerous situation, you can say that they are plucked from it or are plucked to safety. A workman was plucked from the roof of a burning power station by a police helicopter Ten fishermen were plucked to safety from life-rafts