Pluck vs Brave - What's the difference?
pluck | brave |
(lb) To pull something sharply; to pull something out
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*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.
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(lb) To remove feathers from a bird.
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*: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
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(lb) To play a string instrument pizzicato
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(lb) To pull or twitch sharply.
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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.
Strong in the face of fear; courageous.
*1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula), Chapter 21:
*:Do not fret, dear. You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task. If you only knew what an effort it is to me to tell of this fearful thing at all, you would understand how much I need your help.
*1987 , Michael Grumley, The Last Diary :
*:he has been so brave , giving it all a dignity.
(label) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Iron is a brave commodity where wood aboundeth.
*(Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
*:It being a brave day, I walked to Whitehall.
Making a fine show or display.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Wear my dagger with the braver grace.
* (1558-1592)
*:For I have gold, and therefore will be brave . / In silks I'll rattle it of every color.
*(Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1803-1882)
*:Frog and lizard in holiday coats / And turtle brave in his golden spots.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
A Native American warrior.
A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.
* Dryden
A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
* Shakespeare
To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
* 1773 , A Farmer, Rivington's New-York Gazetteer , Number 53, December 2
(obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
* (rfdate), Shakespeare
In transitive terms the difference between pluck and brave
is that pluck is to play a string instrument pizzicato while brave is to encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy.As an adjective brave is
strong in the face of fear; courageous.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 .
Derived terms
* pluckyReferences
* * *Anagrams
*brave
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (courageous) doughty, orped, resilient, stalwart. See alsoAntonyms
* (courageous) cowardly, fearful, mean, weakNoun
(en noun)- Hot braves like thee may fight.
- Demetrius, thou dost overween in all; / And so in this, to bear me down with braves .
Verb
- These I can brave , but those I can not bear.
- but they [Parliament] never will be braved into it.
- After braving''' tricks on the high-dive, he '''braved a jump off the first diving platform.
- Thou [a tailor whom Grunio was browbeating] hast braved meny men; brave not me; I'll neither be faced or braved.
