plucking
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]plucking
- present participle and gerund of pluck
Noun
[edit]plucking (countable and uncountable, plural pluckings)
- (gerund of pluck) An act in which something is plucked.
- 2007 April 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
- Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […] .
- A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
- 1937, Archibald Dixon Shamel, Carl Schurz Scofield, David A. Savage, Wheat Requirements in Europe:
- Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934
- (printing) The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
- 1959, E. A. Apps, Printing Ink Technology, page 415:
- Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]