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Hardiness vs Pluck - What's the difference?

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Hardiness is a related term of pluck.


As nouns the difference between hardiness and pluck

is that hardiness is the state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions while pluck is an instance of plucking.

As a verb pluck is

(lb) to pull something sharply; to pull something out.

hardiness

English

Noun

  • The state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
  • (obsolete) hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance
  • * Shakespeare, Cymbeline
    • Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever / Of hardiness is mother.
  • * Clarendon
    • They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king.
  • (obsolete) hardship; fatigue
    • (Spenser)

    See also

    * hardness

    pluck

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
  • :
  • *1900 , , Ch.I:
  • *:The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
  • :
  • (lb) To remove feathers from a bird.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • (lb) To rob, fleece, steal forcibly
  • :
  • (lb) To play a string instrument pizzicato
  • :
  • (lb) To pull or twitch sharply.
  • :
  • To reject at an examination for degrees.
  • *1847 , , (Jane Eyre)
  • *: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.

    • Derived terms

    * plucker * plucking * pluck up

    Noun

    (-)
  • An instance of plucking
    • ''Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
    • He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck .

    Derived terms

    * plucky

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