Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PULL

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Definitions of PULL

1. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
2. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
3. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
4. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
5. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
6. A journey made by rowing.
7. An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain.
8. (gun sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
9. (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
10. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
11. (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
12. (ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner.
13. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
14. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
15. (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
16. (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
17. (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
18. (intransitive) To row.
19. (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
20. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
21. (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
22. (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
23. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
24. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
25. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
26. (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
27. (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
28. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
29. (now, chiefly, Scotland, England and USregional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
30. (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
31. (computing) To get the latest version of a project's source code
32. An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
33. (figurative, by extension) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
34. (uncountable, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
35. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.
36. Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star).
37. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
38. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
39. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
40. (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
41. (cricket) 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.
42. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
43. (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
44. (printing) A proof sheet.

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Examples of Using PULL in a Sentence

• Although up to a third of the star systems in the Milky Way are binary, double planets are expected to be much rarer given the typical planet to satellite mass ratio is around 1:10000, they are influenced heavily by the gravitational pull of the parent star and according to the giant-impact hypothesis are gravitationally stable only under particular circumstances.
• Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), a star that has a gravitational pull strong enough to trap light under Newtonian gravity.
• Tug of war (also known as tug o' war, tug war, rope war, rope pulling, or tugging war) is a sport that pits two teams against each other in a test of strength: teams pull on opposite ends of a rope, with the goal being to bring the rope a certain distance in one direction against the force of the opposing team's pull.
• Just as a linear force is a push or a pull applied to a body, a torque can be thought of as a twist applied to an object with respect to a chosen point; for example, driving a screw uses torque, which is applied by the screwdriver rotating around its axis.
• A train (from Old French , from Latin , "to pull, to draw") is a series of connected vehicles that run along a railway track and transport people or freight.
• Unlike normal ocean waves, which are generated by wind, or tides, which are in turn generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun, a tsunami is generated by the displacement of water from a large event.
• January 21 – The Recoinage Act, passed by the Parliament of England to pull counterfeit silver coins out of circulation, becomes law.
• Pull a section of rope back and lay it alongside the rope, so that the rope forms a Z approximately 20 cm long.
• A semi-automatic rifle is an auto-loading rifle that fires a single cartridge with each pull of the trigger.
• A kayak is a low-to-the-water, canoe-like boat in which the paddler sits facing forward, legs in front, using a double-bladed paddle to pull front-to-back on one side and then the other in rotation.
• If the attractive forces between the solvent and solute particles are greater than the attractive forces holding the solute particles together, the solvent particles pull the solute particles apart and surround them.
• A fishing line is any flexible, high-tensile cord used in angling to tether and pull in fish, in conjunction with at least one hook.
• Earlier in 2010, SK Telecom decided to pull out of the Vietnam mobile market when stopping cooperation with SPT - Saigon Postel Corp.
• Its name, translating from German as "pull" or "tug", originates from the fishing vocabulary; in the Middle Ages it referred to the right to pull up fishing nets and hence to the right to fish.
• Pull My Daisy is a 1959 American short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.
• The additional fingers were surgically removed early in childhood as a precaution, as the infant Uderzo would sometimes violently pull on them when enraged or annoyed.
• He named the site "The Rapids" on 23 August 1679, when he had horses and men pull his 45-ton barque Le Griffon north against the nearly four-knot current of the St.
• Oncotic pressure, or colloid osmotic-pressure, is a type of osmotic pressure induced by the plasma proteins, notably albumin, in a blood vessel's plasma (or any other body fluid such as blood and lymph) that causes a pull on fluid back into the capillary.
• Now it is a fully modern paved roadway with informational and white water rafting pull outs which serves to transport tourists, rafters, commuters, and other traffic across the middle Idaho region.
• Along the walking path there are many different workout stations for pull ups, wall hurdles, squat bars, sit-up benches and there is also beautiful metal art work along the path.

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