Harp vs Pluck - What's the difference?
harp | pluck |
A musical instrument consisting of an upright frame strung with strings that are stroked or plucked with the fingers.
(label) A harmonica.
(label) A grain sieve.
To repeatedly mention a subject.
(label) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
(label) To play (a tune) on the harp.
(label) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.
(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.
An instance of plucking
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
As a proper noun harp
is for a player of the harp.As a verb pluck is
(lb) to pull something sharply; to pull something out.As a noun pluck is
an instance of plucking.harp
English
(wikipedia harp)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* harpistSee also
* lyreVerb
(en verb)- (US)
- (UK)
- — Shakespeare.
Synonyms
* about *Anagrams
* ----pluck
English
Verb
Derived terms
* plucker * plucking * pluck upNoun
(-)- ''Those tiny birds are hardly worth the tedious pluck
- He didn't get far with the attempt, but you have to admire his pluck .