plucking
suomi-englanti sanakirjaplucking englanniksi
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An act in which something is plucked.
{{quote-journal|en|date=April 27, 2007|author=The New York Times|title=Pop and Rock Listings|work=New York Times|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/arts/music/27pop.html
A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
{{quote-text|en|year=1937|author=Archibald Dixon Shamel; Carl Schurz Scofield; David A. Savage|title=Wheat Requirements in Europe
The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
{{quote-text|en|year=1959|author=E. A. Apps|title=Printing Ink Technology|page=415