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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}}
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carew to this entry?)
- (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
- (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
- (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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hold
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?ld, IPA(key): /h??ld/, [h???d]
- (General American) enPR: h?ld, IPA(key): /ho?ld/, [ho??d]
- Homophone: holed
- Rhymes: -??ld
Etymology 1
From Middle English holden, from Old English healdan, from Proto-Germanic *haldan? (“to tend, herd”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”) (compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B kälts (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek ????? (kéll?, “to drive”), Sanskrit ????? (kaláyati, “he impels”)). Cognate to West Frisian hâlde, Low German holden, holen, Dutch houden, German halten, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål holde, Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Verb
hold (third-person singular simple present holds, present participle holding, simple past held, past participle held or (archaic) holden)
- (transitive) To grasp or grip.
- (transitive) To contain or store.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (transitive) To reserve.
- (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
- (transitive) To detain.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- The rule holds in land as well as all other commodities.
- (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
- (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys
- Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.
- 1646, Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys
- (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
- (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
- (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- 1776, Thomas Jefferson et al., United States Declaration of Independence:
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
- 1776, Thomas Jefferson et al., United States Declaration of Independence:
- (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- Hold not thy peace, and be not still.
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have been taught.
- (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
- (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
- To take place, to occur.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 9:
- He came into the hall where the wedding-festival had held […].
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 9:
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- (archaic) To derive right or title.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- My crown is absolute, and holds of none.
- 1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table
- His imagination holds immediately from nature.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- 1933, Goat Laven, Rough Stuff: The Life Story of a Gangster (page 122)
- […] first thing clients would say to me would be 'Are you holding?' I'd say yes if we had our supply and no if it was dangerous.
- 1933, Goat Laven, Rough Stuff: The Life Story of a Gangster (page 122)
Synonyms
- (grasp or grip): clasp, grasp, grip; See also Thesaurus:grasp
- (have and keep possession of something): own; See also Thesaurus:possess
- (not to move): See also Thesaurus:stop
- (not to give way): See also Thesaurus:persevere
- (restrain oneself): See also Thesaurus:desist
- (take place): happen; See also Thesaurus:happen
Antonyms
- release
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
hold (plural holds)
- A grasp or grip.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- An act or instance of holding.
- Can I have a hold of the baby?
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Senator X placed a hold on the bill, then went to the library and placed a hold on a book.
- 2008, R. Michael Gordon, The Space Shuttle Program: How NASA Lost Its Way (page 98)
- Because there were no “launch commit criteria” regarding surface booster temperatures that might cause a hold on the launch, the ice team did not report the temperatures to the launch controllers.
- Something reserved or kept.
- We have a hold here for you.
- Power over someone or something.
- The ability to persist.
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- He got him in a tight hold and pinned him to the mat.
- (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- (video games, dated) A pause facility.
- 1983, New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)
- A hold facility is available; H holds, and S restarts.
- 1987?, Imagine Software, Legend of Kage (video game instruction leaflet)
- SCREEN 5 — Perhaps the toughest — going like the clappers sometimes works but generally you'll have to be smarter than that. If things get a little too hectic and you don't even have time to reach the HOLD key, try taking a short rest below the top of the stairs.
- 1983, New Generation Software, Knot in 3D (video game instruction leaflet)
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- 2003, Daniel Jackson, Paul Fulberg, Sonic Branding: An Essential Guide to the Art and Science of Sonic Branding, Palgrave Macmillan ?ISBN, page 6
- Given that there is an average on-hold time of more than five minutes while enquiries are being dealt with, the telephone hold system provided the best opportunity.
- 2005, Lorraine Grubbs-West, Lessons in Loyalty: How Southwest Airlines Does it : an Insider's View, CornerStone Leadership Inst ?ISBN, page 56
- Even the "on-hold" messages on Southwest's telephone system are humorous, ensuring anyone inconvenienced by the hold is entertained.
- 2012, Tanner Ezell, Cisco Unified Communications Manager 8: Expert Administration Cookbook, Packt Publishing Ltd ?ISBN
- Note. After the device downloads its new configuration file, we can test placing a call on hold and the generic hold music will be heard.
- 2003, Daniel Jackson, Paul Fulberg, Sonic Branding: An Essential Guide to the Art and Science of Sonic Branding, Palgrave Macmillan ?ISBN, page 6
- (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
Synonyms
(exercise): isometric exercise
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- behold
References
Etymology 2
Alteration (due to hold) of hole. Cognate with Dutch hol (“hole, cave, den, cavity, cargo hold”), Dutch holte (“cavity, hollow, den”).
Noun
hold (plural holds)
- (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- Put that in the hold.
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English hold, holde, from Old English hold (“gracious, friendly, kind, favorable, true, faithful, loyal, devout, acceptable, pleasant”), from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz (“favourable, gracious, loyal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to tend, incline, bend, tip”). Cognate with German hold (“gracious, friendly, sympathetic, grateful”), Danish and Swedish huld (“fair, kindly, gracious”), Icelandic hollur (“faithful, dedicated, loyal”), German Huld (“grace, favour”).
Adjective
hold (comparative more hold, superlative most hold)
- (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
Anagrams
- dhol, hodl
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?h?l?]
Etymology 1
From Old Norse hald (“grip, power, hold”). Also see holde (“to hold”).
Noun
hold n (singular definite holdet, plural indefinite hold)
- team (group of persons working or playing together)
- class (group of students taught together)
- distance, side (only with the prepositions på or fra and an adjective)
- truth
- pain (in the muscles)
- (rare) hold
Inflection
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
hold
- imperative of holde
German
Etymology
From Middle High German holt, from Old High German hold, from Proto-Germanic *hulþaz. Cognates include Gothic ???????????????????? (hulþs, “clement”) and Old Norse hollr ( > Danish huld).
Pronunciation
Adjective
hold (comparative holder, superlative am holdesten)
- (archaic, poetic) friendly, comely, graceful
- 1907, Carl Spitteler, Die Mädchenfeinde, Siebentes Kapitel, Beim Narren?tudenten
- Um aber auf deinen holden Kadettengeneral zurückzukommen, ?o will ich dir, weil du mir dein Geheimnis anvertraut ha?t, auch etwas Geheimnisvolles verraten […]
- 1907, Carl Spitteler, Die Mädchenfeinde, Siebentes Kapitel, Beim Narren?tudenten
Declension
Further reading
- “hold” in Duden online
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *ku?e. Cognates include Hungarian hó (“month”), Finnish and Estonian kuu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hold]
- Hyphenation: hold
- Rhymes: -old
Noun
hold (plural holdak)
- moon, natural satellite
- unit of surface area, originally meant the same as acre, has different kinds ranging from 3500 m² to 8400 m²
- (attributive usage) lunar
Usage notes
Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (“ground, soil; Earth”)??Föld (“Earth”), hold (“moon, satellite; Moon”)??Hold (“our Moon”), and nap (“day; sun; Sun”)??Nap (“our Sun”), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlít? (“equator”)??Egyenlít? (“Equator”), naprendszer (“solar system”)??Naprendszer (“Solar System”), and tejút (“galaxy”, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)??Tejút (“Milky Way”).[5][6][7]
Declension
Derived terms
- holdas
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse hold, from Proto-Germanic *huld?, from Proto-Indo-European *kol-, *kwol-. Cognate with Swedish hull.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [h?lt]
- Rhymes: -?lt
Noun
hold n (genitive singular holds, no plural)
- flesh
- Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)
- Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."
- A voice says, "Cry out." And I said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever."
- Heyr, einhver segir: "Kalla þú!" Og ég svara: "Hvað skal ég kalla?" "Allt hold er gras og allur yndisleikur þess sem blóm vallarins. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, þegar Drottinn andar á þau. Sannlega, mennirnir eru gras. Grasið visnar, blómin fölna, en orð Guðs vors stendur stöðugt eilíflega."
- Isaiah 40 (Icelandic, English)
Declension
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English hold.
Adjective
hold
- friendly, faithful
Noun
hold
- carcase, flesh
Related terms
- holdeste, unhold, holdelike, holdoþ
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
hold
- imperative of holde
Derived terms
- (of noun) dyrehold
- (of noun) kosthold
- (of noun) husdyrhold
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xold/, [ho?d]
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *huld?, from Proto-Indo-European *kol-, *kwol-. Cognates include Old Norse hold (“flesh”) (Icelandic hold, Swedish hull), and (from Indo-European) Old Irish colainn, Welsh celain.
Noun
hold n (nominative plural hold)
- dead body; carcass
Declension
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *hulþaz, a variant on a root meaning ‘lean, incline’ (compare Old English heald, hieldan).
Cognates include Old Frisian hold, Old Saxon hold, Old High German hold (German hold), Old Norse hollr (Danish huld, Swedish huld), Gothic ???????????????????? (hulþs).
Adjective
hold (comparative holdra, superlative holdost) (+ dative)
- gracious, loyal, kind
Declension
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hulþaz
Adjective
hold
- friendly , loyal
Derived terms
- huld?
- hulda, holda
Descendants
- German: hold
Spanish
Noun
hold m (plural holds)
- (baseball) hold
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