Betekenis van:
pluck
pluck
Zelfstandig naamwoord
- the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury
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Voorbeeldzinnen
- Where did you pluck them?
- He knows how to pluck a chicken.
- She gave a pluck at my elbow.
- You know how to pluck the heartstrings!
- Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck.
- It's the first time I pluck a chicken.
- Tom says he can pluck a chicken in less than ten minutes.
- I cannot pluck the chicken. I cut my fingers with a knife.
- Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn, and your hair's spun gold.
- He has till now been the apple of your eye; but if thine eye offend you, says Scripture, pluck it out. It is better to enter heaven with one eye than hell with two!
- This can be divided into aggressive pecking; feather pecking (where individuals either peck at other birds' feathers or pluck and pull at their own); and pecking at the skin of other birds, which can cause serious suffering and mortality if unchecked.
- During agricultural research when the aim of the research requires that the animals are kept under similar conditions to those under which commercial farm animals are kept, the keeping of the animals should at least follow the standards laid down in Directive 98/58/EC and in the specific Directive for the protection of laying hens (Council Directive 1999/74/EC) as well as in the Recommendations adopted under the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes (ETS No 87).Many of the potential welfare problems specific to birds are associated with inappropriate pecking behaviour. This can be divided into aggressive pecking; feather pecking (where individuals either peck at other birds' feathers or pluck and pull at their own); and pecking at the skin of other birds, which can cause serious suffering and mortality if unchecked.