Synonymer

Uttal

  • Uttal:
  • UttalUS:
Översättning
Verb
1.yolmak

Definitioner

Verb

  1. (transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  2. (transitive, music) To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  3. (transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.
  4. (transitive) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
  5. (transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato
  6. (intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.
  7. (UK, universities) To reject at an examination for degrees.

Substantiv

  1. An instance of plucking
  2. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  3. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

Exempel

  • She plucked the phone from her bag and dialled.
  • The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
  • Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.
  • Molly the dairymaid came a little way from the rickyard, and said she would pluck the pigeon that very night after work. She was always ready to do anything for us boys; and we could never quite make out why they scolded her so for an idle hussy indoors. It seemed so unjust.
  • 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 somebody's sleeve
  • He went to college, and he got— plucked, I think they call it: and then his uncles wanted him to be a barrister, and study the law.
  • Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
  • He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.

Böjningsformer

PerfektparticippluckedPerfektparticippluckt
Perfektparticippluck'dImperfektplucked
ImperfektplucktImperfektpluck'd
PresensparticippluckingTredje person singular indicativ presensplucks
Tredje person singular indicativ presensplucketh

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