Pluck vs. Luck — What's the Difference?

Courage and determination faced with difficulties.

Favorable fortune in life or games.

A spirited and audacious approach.

Belief in the power of chance.

To pull at something sharply or to remove.

A random occurrence of events favorable to the individual.

To play a stringed instrument by pulling its strings.

Success or failure apparently brought by chance.

To pick or select something.

An unpredictable factor in situations.

To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick

Luck is the phenomenon and belief that defines the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events. The naturalistic interpretation is that positive and negative events may happen all the time, both due to random and non-random natural and artificial processes, and that even improbable events can happen by random chance.

To pull out the hair or feathers of

Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one's own actions

To remove abruptly or forcibly

Chance to find or acquire

To give an abrupt pull to; tug at

The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; fortune

(Music) To sound (the strings of an instrument) by pulling and releasing them with the fingers or a plectrum.

Good fortune or prosperity; success

To give an abrupt pull; tug.

One's personal fate or lot

The act or an instance of plucking.

To gain success or something desirable by chance

Resourceful courage and daring in the face of difficulties; spirit.

Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.

The heart, liver, windpipe, and lungs of a slaughtered animal.

A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.

(transitive) To pull something sharply; to pull something out

Success.

(transitive) To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.

The results of a random number generator.

To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.

To find something through good fortune; used with into, on, onto or upon.

(transitive) To remove feathers from a bird.

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used by itself to mean good luck; as, luck is better than skill; a stroke of luck.

To rob, steal from; to cheat or swindle (someone).

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);

(transitive) To play a string instrument pizzicato.

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;

(intransitive) To pull or twitch sharply.

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;

To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.

Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.

An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.

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

Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.

Cheap wine.

To pull; to draw.

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.

To strip of, or as of, feathers; as, to pluck a fowl.

To reject at an examination for degrees.

To make a motion of pulling or twitching; - usually with at; as, to pluck at one's gown.

The act of plucking; a pull; a twitch.

The heart, liver, and lights of an animal.

Spirit; courage; indomitable resolution; fortitude.

The lyrie.

The trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury

The act of pulling and releasing a taut cord

Pull or pull out sharply;

Sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity

Rip off; ask an unreasonable price

Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion;

Strip of feathers;

Look for and gather;

Luck pertains to the happenstance and random chance that beneficially or adversely affects events.

Yes, pluck is generally viewed positively as it exemplifies determination and courage.

In stories, pluck often characterizes heroes who overcome great odds through bravery.

No, luck is an element of chance and cannot be influenced or predicted.

Luck does not require effort; it is independent of personal actions.

Yes, luck can significantly alter circumstances in unpredictable ways.

Pluck can be developed through facing and overcoming challenges.

Demonstrating pluck involves showing bravery and a determined spirit when facing tough situations.

Pluck refers to the spirited courage and resolve someone shows, especially under challenging circumstances.

While pluck itself doesn’t change luck, it can change outcomes through actions regardless of luck.

Luck is often shown as a random element that influences outcomes without merit.

Yes, because pluck involves effort, its outcomes are often seen as more deserved than those from luck.