heart vs pluck

heart

noun
  • Emotional strength that allows one to continue in difficult situations; courage; spirit; a will to compete. 

  • A wight or being. 

  • A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion. 

  • A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols. 

  • The centre, essence, or core. 

  • Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad. 

  • One's feelings and emotions, especially considered as part of one's character. 

  • The twenty-fourth Lenormand card. 

  • The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality. 

  • A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3. 

verb
  • To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce or cabbage. 

  • To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. 

  • To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. 

pluck

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

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