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plucking

verb
/ˈplʌkɪŋ/

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of pluck

  2. An act in which something is plucked.

    • Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].

  3. A fragment of something obtained by plucking.

    • Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.

      • 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, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at plucking. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at plucking. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at plucking

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA