different between remove vs pull

English

Etymology

From Middle English remeven, removen, from Anglo-Norman remover, removeir, from Old French remouvoir, from Latin remov?re, from re- + mov?re (“to move”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???mu?v/
• Rhymes: -u?v

Verb

remove (third-person singular simple present removes, present participle removing, simple past and past participle removed)

1. (transitive) To delete.
2. (transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
   • 1560, Geneva Bible, The Geneva Bible#page/n182 Deuteronomy 19:14:

     Thou ?halt not remoue thy neighbours marke, which thei of olde time haue ?et in thine inheritance, that thou ?halt inherit the lãd, which the Lord thy God giueth the to po??e??e it.
   1. (obsolete, formal) To replace a dish within a course.
3. (transitive) To murder.
4. (cricket, transitive) To dismiss a batsman.
5. (transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
6. (intransitive, now rare) To depart, leave.
7. (intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.

   • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska 1987, p.20:

     Shortly after this, my father removed, and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.

   • I am going to remove. / Where are you going to remove to? / I don't know yet. / When will you know?

8. To dismiss or discharge from office.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• unstay

Antonyms

• (move something from one place to another): settle, place, add

Derived terms

• removable
• removal
• removalist
• remover

Translations

Noun

remove (plural removes)

1. The act of removing something.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller

     And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
2. (archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
3. (Britain) (at some public schools) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
4. A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
5. Distance in time or space; interval.
6. (figuratively, by extension) Emotional distance or indifference.
7. (dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
   • 1855, John Henry Newman, Callista

     It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.

8. The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     His horse wanted two removes; your horse wanted nails

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Latin

Verb

remov?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of remove?

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?vi

Verb

remove

1. third-person singular present indicative of remover
2. second-person singular imperative of remover

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)

1. (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.
2. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.

3. (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.

4. (transitive, intransitive, Britain, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.

5. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.

6. (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.

7. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.

8. (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.

9. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
10. (intransitive) To row.
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI
11. (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.

12. 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.

13. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
14. (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.

15. (Britain) To score a certain number of points in a sport.

    How many points did you pull today, Albert?

16. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.

    The favourite was pulled.

17. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
18. (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.

19. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.

20. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
21. (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.

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

1. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.

Noun

pull (countable and uncountable, plural pulls)

1. 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.

2. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source

3. (figuratively, by extension) An advantage over somebody; means of influencing.

4. Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope

5. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest.

6. Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star)
7. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
8. 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.

9. (dated) A contest; a struggle.

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10. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
11. (colloquial) The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink.

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12. (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.

13. (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
14. (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
15. (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)

1. bull
2. ox

Declension

French

Etymology

Clipping of pull-over, from English pullover.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pyl/, /pul/

Noun

pull m (plural pulls)

1. pullover