different between backout vs pullout

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase back out.

Noun

backout (plural backouts)

1. A reversal or undoing of tasks previously done (often in reverse order).
2. (aerospace) A reversed countdown (i.e. ascending numbers) in response to problems leading up to a launch.

Anagrams

• out back, outback

English

Etymology

From the verb phrase pull out.

Noun

pullout (plural pullouts)

1. A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
2. The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
3. An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
4. (typography) Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”)
5. An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
6. (surfing) The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the board into or over the back of a wave.
   • 2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing (page 482)

     Most pullouts, then and today, are done by simply angling or pivoting the board up and over the wave crest.

   • 2015, John Engle, Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History (page 131)

     […] Machado, who turns what might seem like a handicap, that lankiness, to rubbery advantage in his sinuous carving and slackly cool pullouts.

7. The coitus interruptus method of birth control.

See also

• pull out

Anagrams

• outpull