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Examples of plucking

plucking

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Plucking is not permitted below the table height.
The latter allows some replacement of maintenance foliage, but the height of the plucking table will rise.
Clonal variations in the response of black tea quality due to plucking standards.
Plucking may effectively erode the welljointed thick basalt bed, resulting in boulders the size of which depends on the bedding and joints of the basalts.
The changes in black leaf quality due to variations of plucking standard and fermentation time.
This action normally takes place by bowing, plucking, blowing or striking.
The piece ends with acoustic plucking on the cello.
We consider that the second method is preferable, as this gives equal weight to all plucking points.
Some dierences might be expected due to the unavoidable variability inherent in the plucking process.
This involves breaking off the stump remaining after plucking, if it is too long.
Without such support, they may be reduced to plucking 'grains from grass ', as the book's title alludes.
Previous work has shown that predicted yields are sensitive to the harvest interval and plucking standard.
Of the remaining 20 seeds, 16 were dropped beneath the tree by birds plucking them from the pods.
Bowing generates a different pattern of amplitudes than plucking, and the amplitudes of the higher harmonics are relatively greater at more intense excitation levels.
The method is rather laborious for day-to-day management of tea harvesting, but could be useful where a change in plucking regime is to be made.
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