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pull
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: po?ol, IPA(key): /p?l/
- (US) IPA(key): [p????]
- Hyphenation: pull
- Rhymes: -?l
Etymology
Verb from Middle English pullen, from Old English pullian (“to pull, draw, tug, pluck off”). 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”).
Verb
pull (third-person singular simple present pulls, present participle pulling, simple past and past participle pulled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- He put forth his hand […] and pulled her in.
- To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
- (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
- 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
- 2011, Russell Simmons, ?Chris Morrow, Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All
- 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.
- 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
- (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
- (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
- (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
- 2006, Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!
- They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.
- 2006, Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!
- (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
- (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.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
- (intransitive) To row.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
- (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
- It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
- To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
- 2009, Ardie A. Davis, ?Chef Paul Kirk, America's Best BBQ (page 57)
- 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.
- (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
- (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
- 2003 April 9, "Richard Lawson" (username), "Monual's Willful Ignorance", in alt.games.everquest, Usenet:
- …we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.
- 2004 October 18, "Stush" (username), "Re: focus pull", in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot, Usenet:
- 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.
- 2005 August 2, "Brian" (username), "Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.
- 2007 April 10, "John Salerno" (username), "Re: Managing the Command Buttons", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….
- 2008 August 18, "Mark (newsgroups)" (username), "Re: I'm a priest now!", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:
- 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.
- 2003 April 9, "Richard Lawson" (username), "Monual's Willful Ignorance", in alt.games.everquest, Usenet:
- (Britain) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
- How many points did you pull today, Albert?
- (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
- The favourite was pulled.
- (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
- (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
- 1888, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Cricket Chapter 2
- Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.
- 1888, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Cricket Chapter 2
- (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
- (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
- (now chiefly Scotland, England and US regional) To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.).
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.19:
- 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.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.19:
Synonyms
- (apply force to (something) so it comes toward): drag, tow, tug, yank
- (slang: to persuade to have sex with one): score
- (to remove from circulation): recall, withdraw, yank
- (to do, to perform): carry out, complete, do, execute, perform
- (to retrieve or generate for use): generate, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, lay one's hands on, obtain, retrieve
- (to succeed in finding a person with whom to have sex.): score
Antonyms
- (apply force to (something) so it comes towards one): push, repel, shove
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
See also pulling
Translations
Interjection
pull
- (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
Noun
pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)
- An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself)
- I found myself suddenly awaked with a violent pull upon the ring, which was fastened at the top of my box.
- An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
- (figuratively, by extension) An advantage over somebody; means of influencing.
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope
- (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.
- Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star)
- (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
- A journey made by rowing
- 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.
- 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V
- (dated) A contest; a struggle.
- va wrestling pull}}
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- (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
- (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
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- (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.
- 1887, R. A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine
- The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.
- 1887, R. A. Proctor, Longman's Magazine
- (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
- (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
- (printing) A proof sheet.
Synonyms
- (act of pulling): tug, yank
- (attractive force): attraction
- (device meant to be pulled): handle, knob, lever, rope
- (influence): influence, sway
- (a puff on a cigarette): drag, toke (marijuana cigarette)
Antonyms
- (act of pulling): push, shove
- (attractive force): repulsion
- (device meant to be pulled): button, push, push-button
- (influence):
Derived terms
- ring-pull
- rug-pull
Related terms
- on the pull
- pull cord
- ring-pull, ring pull
Translations
Estonian
Etymology
From Low German bulle.
Noun
pull (genitive pulli, partitive pulli)
- bull
- ox
Declension
French
Etymology
Clipping of pull-over, from English pullover.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pyl/, /pul/
Noun
pull m (plural pulls)
- pullover
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convey
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French conveier (French French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin *convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?ve?/
- Rhymes: -e?
Verb
convey (third-person singular simple present conveys, present participle conveying, simple past and past participle conveyed)
- To move (something) from one place to another.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,[1]
- […] I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir. My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea: and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there […]
- 1858, Henry Gray, London: John W. Parker & Son, “Female Organs of Generation,” p. 688,[2]
- The Fallopian Tubes, or oviducts, convey the ova from the ovaries to the cavity of the uterus.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Kings 5:8-9,[1]
- (dated) To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[3]
- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
- Love they to live that love and honour have.
- 1717, Samuel Croxall (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book the Sixth, p. 200,[4]
- […] the false Tyrant seiz’d the Princely Maid,
- And to a Lodge in distant Woods convey’d;
- 1817, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 19,[5]
- It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple’s carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance […]
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 1,[3]
- To communicate; to make known; to portray.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,[6]
- To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication is necessary […] that they excite, in the Hearer, exactly the same Idea they stand for, in the Mind of the Speaker: Without this, Men fill one another’s Heads with noise and sounds; but convey not thereby their Thoughts, and lay not before one another their Ideas, which is the end of Discourse and Language.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 2, Book 7, Chapter 6, p. 27,[7]
- This excellent Method of conveying a Falshood with the Heart only, without making the Tongue guilty of an Untruth, by the Means of Equivocation and Imposture, hath quieted the Conscience of many a notable Deceiver […]
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter 3,[8]
- I am afraid I cannot convey the peculiar sensations of time travelling.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Chapter 1,[9]
- To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled, the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, London: Thomas Basset, Book III, Chapter 9, p. 232,[6]
- (law) To transfer legal rights (to).
- He conveyed ownership of the company to his daughter.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Dublin, The Hibernia Press, 1809, p. 42,[10]
- […] before his breaking forth into open rebellion, [the Earle of Desmond] had conveyed secretly all his lands to feoffees of trust, in hope to have cut off her Maiestie from the escheate of his lands.
- (obsolete) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,[11]
- I shall so conuey my matters, that he shall dysclose all together hym selfe, what busynesse is betwene you […]
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2,[12]
- I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
- 1557, uncredited translator, A Mery Dialogue by Erasmus, London: Antony Kytson,[11]
- (obsolete) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
- 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin,
- Suppose you are good at the lift, who be more cunning then we women, in that we are more trusted, for they little suspect vs, and we haue as close conueyance as you men, though you haue Cloakes, we haue skirts of gownes, handbaskets, the crownes of our hattes, our plackardes, and for a need, false bagges vnder our smockes, wherein we can conuey more closely then you.
- 1592, Robert Greene, A Disputation betweene a Hee Conny-Catcher and a Shee Conny-Catcher, London: T. Gubbin,
Synonyms
- (to move something from one place to another): carry, transport
- (to take someone from one place to another): accompany, conduct (archaic), escort
- (to communicate a message): express, send, relay
Derived terms
Related terms
- convoy
Translations
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