(n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) And ostentatious gestures and lavish presentation, rather than the quality of his new records, are the means by which he has kept public interest bubbling in recent years: not a UK tour, but 21 nights at the O2 Arena, complete with after-hours shows at the IndigO2 nightclub; giving away his new albums free with newspapers; inviting journalists and fans to his Los Angeles home or to the Paisley Park complex in Minneapolis for parties to launch albums instead of submitting to the usual round of encounters with the press; launching his own nightclub in Las Vegas where he played twice weekly for six months; turning up in Lianne La Havas's front room to premiere Plectrum Electrum.
(2) Both Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum are due to arrive on 29 September, and are available to order now Tracklist for Art Official Age: 1.
(3) Further re-releases are expected to follow, as well as a new studio album with Prince’s current band 3RDEYEGIRL, reportedly entitled Plectrum Electrum.
(4) The musician has been teasing us with details of his forthcoming Plectrum Electrum album with the band 3rd Eye Girl since January this year, when he hosted a press conference at nu-soul singer Lianne La Havas’ house .
(5) In person, the matt black Keith Richards barnet and glittery nail varnish on his plectrum-holding right hand suggest a man who has spent his entire adult life as a national institution.
(6) "Wilko signed it and gave me a couple of lessons, told me never to use a plectrum and just bash it till my fingers bled.
(7) Nevertheless, there's still no sign of the new album, Plectrum Electrum, recorded with his current band, 3rdEyeGirl.
(8) The track is taken from his forthcoming album, Plectrum Electrum, which is set for a spring release.
(9) After Sunday night’s VMAs, the artist revealed that Plectrum Electrum will arrive in September alongside an entirely separate LP, Art Official Age.
(10) Here, Prince and his band played new songs from Plectrum Electrum, including the new single PretzelBodyLogic.
(11) Certainly not Madonna, Paglia's long-term crush, who has been playing the guitar onstage for the past 10 years but still looks cross-eyed with concentration every time she picks up a plectrum.
(12) Prince and backing band 3RDEYEGIRL had flown into London in the early hours of Tuesday at the start of a still-evolving string of dates in support of his upcoming album, Plectrum Electrum, which they had played to a small nightclub audience in New York on Sunday night.
(13) He's also been working with Rita Ora, and last year announced an album with his new all-female band 3rdEyeGirl called Plectrum Electrum, which is yet to get a release date – though he posted a new track, Da Bourgeoisie, in November.
(14) The Sailor's Hornpipe interpolation Dreamer More Than This (instrumental) Colonized Mind Guitar Plectrum Electrum Chaos And Disorder Full setlist, show 2 Raspberry Beret (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Funknroll (acoustic) Pretzelbodylogic (acoustic) Play That Funky Music .
(15) The shows in February – accompanied by an extensive interview in Mojo magazine – were expected to be promotion for the release of Prince's new album, Plectrum Electrum.
Pluck
Definition:
(v. t.) To pull; to draw.
(v. t.) Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
(v. t.) To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.
(v. t.) To reject at an examination for degrees.
(v. i.) To make a motion of pulling or twitching; -- usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.
(n.) The act of plucking, or the state of being plucked, at college. See Pluck, v. t., 4.
(v. t.) The lyrie.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
(2) The woman said it took her until the mid-1990s to pluck up the courage to report the abuse to Jersey's children's services department – and that her allegations were not taken seriously enough.
(3) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(4) They're partial to the odd eider duck and do lots of nifty fish-plucking from the waves.
(5) It described experiments in which skin cells plucked from mice were reprogrammed into what looked for all the world like embryonic stem cells.
(6) She said: "I have asked the migration advisory committee – and I am not going to pluck at figures from thin air – to look at these issues to see if we can get to a point where we can get a better assessment and a better judgment of the true picture, in relation to the costs or otherwise of the decisions that we are taking, because I do not believe that the impact assessment gives a full and true picture at the moment."
(7) Given how empty the sea is, it was a miracle that his distress signal, transmitted to the ever-watchful Falmouth Coastguard, was picked up by a Chinese supertanker whose crew plucked him from the water minutes before his boat sank.
(8) The various components of these muscles are provided with stiff as well as wide aponeuroses and tendons (much stronger than those observed in Columba), indicating forceful opening and closure of the beaks for plucking off the fruit, grasping it hard and manipulating it with the help of the beaks before swallowing.
(9) Usually but this time they're on their feet, plucking like workers in a chicken factory working on a bonus system for number of feathers plucked.
(10) Using the CRD, outer root sheath cells, isolated from plucked human hair follicles and plated on growth-arrested 3T3 feeder layers, were grown on native collagen lattices populated with living human fibroblasts.
(11) After this treatment, we plucked anagen hairs under standardized conditions both from the area treated with C and the contralateral, untreated area.
(12) The present study demonstrates the possibilities of DNA flow cytometry to study the pharmacological effects on cell kinetics of plucked human anagen hairs.
(13) I was much more comfortable with the data in Canada ( where he was governor before being plucked to run Threadneedle Street ), Carney replies .
(14) Dahl’s heroine, Sophie, is a lonely young girl plucked from her bed in an orphanage by the titular behemoth, and carried off to Giant Land, his home, lest she alert the normal world to the presence of giants.
(15) The number of carcasses which were positive after cooling was found to have decreased in poultry-processing plant B compared with the situation after plucking, whereas this number was not affected to any appreciable extent in processing plant A.
(16) Activities in both plucked and unplucked skin were higher in the animals fed diets with higher protein contents.
(17) counsels their mother, whose superb cheeriness and pluck are the things with which we truly built the empire), and seek out new friends and entertainments.
(18) Some boxing experts believe that, starting his career at light-middleweight against Hungary's Attila Molnar , Saunders will eventually emerge as the most successful of the trio Warren has plucked from the British Olympic team.
(19) Such organizations as Project Censored exist to call attention to, for instance, the "Top Censored Stories Corporate Media Won't Dare Touch" – pretty much all of which, of course, have been plucked from the corporate media.
(20) Rearing environment (enriched vs. normal) and method of vibrissae removal (cauterization of follicles vs. plucking) were examined to determine specific factors that m might influence the effect of vibrissae removal.