pluck vs seizing

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

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

  • 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. 

seizing

noun
  • The act of grabbing or taking possession. 

  • A type of lashing or binding by a small cord. 

  • Something seized. 

  • Such lashing used to temporarily immobilize the ends of a rope to prevent a knot from slipping or collapsing. 

adj
  • That seizes the attention; impressive. 

How often have the words pluck and seizing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )