pull
Part of speech: verb
intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”), of uncertain ultimate origin. Related to West Frisian pûlje (“to shell, husk”), Middle Dutch pullen (“to drink”), Middle Dutch polen (“to peel, strip”), Low German pulen (“to pick, pluck, pull, tear, strip off husks”), Icelandic púla (“to work hard, beat”).
Noun from Middle English pul, pull, pulle, from the verb pullen (“to pull”).
Inflected forms:
form: pulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: pull
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: pull
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: pull
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: pullest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: pulledst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: pulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pulleth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: pull
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: pull
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: pull
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: pulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: When I give the signal, pull the rope.
Pull your belt tight before starting off, will you?
He put forth his hand […] and pulled her in.
Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.
gloss: To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: to pull fruit from a tree
pull flax
pull a finch
He and some of his companions one day entered a garden in the suburbs, and having indulged their appetites, desired to know what satisfaction they must make for the fruit they had pulled.
gloss: To attract or net; to pull in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
While the pimp can always pull a ho with his magnetism, he can never pull a nun. The nun is too in touch with her own compassionate and honest spirit to react to a spirit as negative and deceitful as that of the pimp.
gloss: To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
ambitransitive
slang
examples: I pulled at the club last night.
He's pulled that bird over there.
Grab your coat, love, you've pulled.
gloss: To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
slang
examples: Wow, Joyce pulls, actually.
gloss: To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.
The book was due to be released today, but it was pulled at the last minute over legal concerns.
gloss: To retrieve or look up for use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'll have to pull a part number for that.
This computer file is incorrect. Can we pull the old version from your backups?
They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.
gloss: To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
pos: verb
examples: It's the contractor's responsibility to pull the necessary permits before starting work.
gloss: To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.
What are you trying to pull?
What are you trying to pull, anyway? You say you want to sell, but you have nothing to offer?! You've got some nerve, kid!
Faced with an enemy whose largest gun turrets weigh more than the entire ship, Johnston decides that running is boring, and instead pulls a full 180-degree turn and charges straight back at the attacking forces.
gloss: To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.
They're trying to pull a Watergate on us.
gloss: To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
pos: verb
gloss: To row.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
gloss: To transport by rowing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the man at the oars pulled him across, the scientist said to him, "Do you know astronomy?"
gloss: To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I pulled a personal best on the erg yesterday.
gloss: To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
pos: verb
examples: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
If you are going to pull or chop the pork butt, take it out of the smoker when the meat is in the higher temperature range, put it in a large pan, and let it rest, covered, for 15 to 20 minutes. Using heavy-duty dinner forks, pull the pork butt to shreds.
gloss: To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: …we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.
Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.
This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.
You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….
Shield yourself, pull with Mind Blast if you want, or merely pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.
gloss: To score a certain number of points in a sport.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: How many points did you pull today, Albert?
gloss: To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
pos: verb
examples: The favourite was pulled.
gloss: To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
pos: verb
examples: Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.
gloss: To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barman pulls a good pint.
gloss: To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Danny pulled at his beer and thought for a moment.
gloss: Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Pull around to the window please.
He pulled the car forward until he was out of the way.
gloss: To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The state trooper pulled me for going 60 in a 55 zone.
gloss: To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
pos: verb
gloss: In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
pos: verb
gloss: To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 'I never liked Bowler, and I had my suspicions when Captain Ferndale persuaded you to put him up in that race. I did not discover until some time after that he pulled the horse.'
gloss: Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
pos: intj
gloss: An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
She took several pulls on her cigarette.
I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the ring, which was fastened at the top of my box.
gloss: An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.
iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet
gloss: An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: The hypnotist exerted a pull over his patients.
Tresham's up to his eyes in dock business and town business, a regular jobmonger, he has no use for anybody who hasn't a pull.
gloss: The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
uncountable
examples: I don't have a lot of pull within the company.
She wants to work in the villages, and she has a lot of pull with some ministers and there she is, like a political supervisor.
I have already put Matthew Williams off for a few days. He wants to see her too, but he doesn't have pull with the director.
If Netflix truly cared about those of us sequestered to our homes, with our shelves of beans and bad-news-addled brains, it would release either a new season of Queer Eye or another season of the similarly soothing Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat to help us bide our time. Alas, I have no pull at Netflix, and neither seems to be coming soon.
gloss: Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a zipper pull
gloss: A randomized selection from a given set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: card pull
gloss: A randomized selection from a given set.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: mythical FYP pull
gloss: A randomized selection from a given set.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; advantage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
figuratively
slang
uncountable
examples: In weights the favourite had the pull.
gloss: Appeal or attraction.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: the pull of a movie star
gloss: The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
examples: server pull
pull technology
gloss: A journey made by rowing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.
gloss: A contest; a struggle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: a wrestling pull
this wrastling pull betweene Corineus and Gogmagog, is reported to have befallen at Douer.
gloss: An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.
gloss: Loss, misfortune, or violence suffered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
poetic
uncountable
examples: Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.
gloss: A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: Heah, Sam Johnsing, jis' take a pull at dis bottle, an' it will make yo' feel better.
However, both gentlemen were clearly of one mind over the quality of the wine, for they each took a prolonged pull, smacked their lips, and looked hard at each other, as though in silent communion over the excellence of the vintage.
Sutho took a pull at his Johnny Walker and Coke and laughed that trademark laugh of his and said: `Okay. I'll pay that all right.'
gloss: A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.
gloss: A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A single impression from a handpress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: "Tell George to come down and bring pulls of his latest plates," confirmed Joolby.
gloss: A proof sheet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: attract
draw
hale
heave
lug
pull
schlep
Antonyms: push
repel
shove
eject
leave
rest
throw
repulsion
button
push-button
Related words: carry
extract
lift
lurch
Derived words: have a crow to pull
it's not the whistle that pulls the train
oil pulling
outpull
overpull
pullability
pullable
pull about
pull a few strings
pull a Homer
pull a lever
pull an all-nighter
pull an oar
pull apart
pull a permit
pull a rabbit from a hat
pull a rabbit out of a hat
pull a sickie
pull aside
pull a train
pull at someone's heartstrings
pull away the shoulder
pullcord
pull down a notch
pull down the curtain
puller
pull faces
pull from the fire
pull Gs
pull hitter
pullikins
pull-in
pulling
pulling power
pulling the plug
pull in one's horns
pull into
pull it out
pull my finger
pull-off
pull-off cap
pull on
pull-on
pull one over
pull oneself
pull oneself together
pull oneself up by one's bootstraps
pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
pull one's finger out
pull one's forelock
pull one's hair out
pull one's head in
pull one's horns in
pull one's own weight
pull one's pud
pull one's punches
pull one's socks up
pull one's weight
pull out all stops
pull out all the stops
pull out of a hat
pull out of one's arse
pull out of one's ass
pull out of the bag
pull out of the fire
pull out of the hat
pull out of the woodwork
pull punches
pull-quote
pull short
pull short up
pull somebody's leg
pull someone down a peg
pull someone off the ceiling
pull someone over the coals
pull someone's bacon out of the fire
pull someone's chain
pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
pull someone's fat out of the fire
pull someone's leg
pull someone's plonker
pull someone's plumes
pull start
pull station
pullstring
pull strings
pull-tab
pull teeth
pull the devil by the tail
pull the fat out of the fire
pull the fire alarm
pull the football
pull the ladder up after oneself
pull the ladder up behind oneself
pull the long bow
pull the other leg
pull the other one
pull the other one, it's got bells on
pull the pin
pull the plug
pull the reins in on someone
pull the reins in on something
pull the rug
pull the rug out from under
pull the shutters down
pull the string
pull the trigger
pull the wires
pull the wool over someone's eyes
pull-through
pull time
pull tongues
pull to pieces
pull to publish
pull up a chair
pull up a floor
pull up a pew
pull up on
pull up one's socks
pull-up resistor
pull up short
pull up stakes
pull up stumps
pull up the drawbridge
pull up the ladder
pull up your pants
pultrude
pultrusion
push-and-pull
push-pull
rope pulling
taffy pull
the whistle does not pull the train
the whistle doesn't pull the train
wirepull
mispull
pull-out
ass-pull
ass pull
beer pull
bell-pull
bench pull
cheese pull
counterpull
crow to pull
demand-pull inflation
gravity's pull
handpull
hard pull
have the world by the tail on a downhill pull
oil pull
on the pull
platter pull
pom-pom-pull-away
pull buoy
pull cord
pulldown
pull-down
pull effect
pull factor
pull-focus
pull list
pullout
pull quote
pull request
push-pull amplifier
rimpull
ring-pull
ring pull
rug pull
rug-pull
short pull
slab pull
soft pull
straight pull
system pull
take a pull
tractor pull
trash pull
underpull
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: преимущество
roman: preimuštestvo
lang: Finnish
word: vaikutusvalta
lang: French
word: influence
lang: Russian
word: козыри
roman: kozyri