Difference between Pluck and Soak

What is the difference between Pluck and Soak?

Pluck as a verb is to pull something sharply; to pull something out while Soak as a verb is to be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.

Pluck

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pull something sharply; to pull something out To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. To remove feathers from a bird. To rob, fleece, steal forcibly To play a string instrument pizzicato To pull or twitch sharply

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An instance of plucking The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

Example sentence: My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Soak

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An immersion in water etc.A drunkard.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it.To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.To penetrate or permeate by saturation.To allow (especially a liquid) to be absorbed; to take in, receive. (usually + up)

Example sentence: I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.

We hope you now know whether to use Pluck or Soak in your sentence.

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