0 past simple and past participle of pluck
1 to pull something, especially with a sudden movement, in order to remove it:
2 to pull and then release the strings of a musical instrument with your finger to play notes:
This means more bass tones can be plucked.
Policy, like most things, is not plucked from thin air but is the outcome of competing ideologies, values and interests.
This bat plucked the fruits from the trees, and carried them to a feeding roost to eat.
This interactive evolution tool provides information about reverberation algorithms, synthesis of percussive sounds, and an analysis of the plucked stiff string.
The accompaniment would not have been realised as presented here in score, but adapted to suit the plucked-string instruments used in performance.
Once again, however, the ideas are disembodied and plucked from their historical context.
Hair from normal and striped regions of the coat was plucked and compared.
According to the performer's interpretation, elements deemed to be contextually salient or expressive are 'plucked' from the texture, to be heard in relief.