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Eyebrow plucking. Plucking or tweezing can mean the process of human hair removal, removing animal hair or a bird's feathers by mechanically pulling the item from the owner's body. In humans, hair removal is done for personal grooming purposes, usually with tweezers. An epilator is a motorised hair plucker.
A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick and is held as a separate tool in the player's hand. In harpsichords, the plectra are attached to the jack mechanism.
Plucking (hair removal), the removal of hair, fur, or feathers; Feather-plucking, a behavior in birds; Plucking post, as used by birds of prey to dismember their prey; Plucking (glaciation), a process related to glaciers
People commonly use tweezers for such tasks as plucking hair from the face or eyebrows, often using the term eyebrow tweezers. Other common uses for tweezers are as a tool to manipulate small objects, including for example small, particularly surface-mount, electronic parts, and small mechanical parts for models and precision mechanisms.
A relatively tall plucking post used here to dismember a toad and discard the spawn A low tree stump plucking post, used to pluck bird prey at Spier's school in Ayrshire. The elevated nature of the post allows for a safer landing with the heavy load of the prey, as well as being a good vantage point to scan for other predators, while the bird is vulnerable, involved in the relatively complex ...
Plucking can be done with either a finger or a plectrum. Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar , bass guitar , mandolin , banjo , balalaika , sitar , pipa , etc.), which generally consist of a resonating body, and a neck ; the strings run along the neck and can be stopped at different pitches.
Rasgueado: Strumming typically done by bunching all the plucking hand fingers into a fist and then flicking them out in quick succession to get four superimposed strums. The rasgueado or "rolling" strum is particularly characteristic of flamenco. Turning p-a-m-i tremolo plucking into a series of downstrokes. This is a lighter version of the ...
The term "glabrousness" also has been applied to human fashions, wherein some participate in culturally motivated hair removal by depilation (surface removal by shaving, dissolving), or epilation (removal of the entire hair, such as waxing or plucking).