English

Noun
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1. nerve|Nerve, fortitude, or persistence.

#: He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck.

1. The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.

Translations
trans-top|nerve, fortitude, persistence
Catalan: perseverància f
Finnish: t|fi|sinnikkyys
French: persévérence f
Hungarian: t|hu|bátorság
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Spanish: perseverancia f
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trans-top|offal from the trunk of an animal
Hungarian: t|hu|bels�ség
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ttbc|Dutch: doorzettingsvermogen n
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Verb
en-verb|plucks|plucking|plucked or obsolete, pluckt

1. transitive To pull something sharply; to pull something out

#: She plucked the phone from her bag and phoned her friend.

1. context|transitive|music To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin, etc.

#: Whereas a piano strikes the string, a harpsichord plucks it.

1. To remove feathers from a bird.

Translations
trans-top|to pull something sharply; to pull something out
Dutch: plukken
Finnish: nykäistä, kiskaista
French: tirer
Hungarian: t|hu|kitép, t|hu|kiszakít
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trans-top|music: to gently play a single string
Dutch: plukken
Finnish: näppäillä
French: pincer
Hungarian: t|hu|penget
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trans-top|to remove feathers from a bird
Dutch: plukken, pluimen
Finnish: kyniä
French: plumer
Hungarian: t|hu|megkopaszt
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Spanish: desplumar
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ttbc|Slovak: ubirati (glasba/music), skubsti
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See also
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References
R:Century 1911
R:Webster 1913

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