Plucking

Definitions

1. An act in which something is plucked.
   countable, gerund, uncountable
2. A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
   countable, uncountable
3. The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“Yield⟳ per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934”

“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, […]”

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