different between weight vs pull

English

Etymology

From Middle English weight, wei?te, weght, wight, from Old English wiht, ?ewiht (“weight”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz ("weight"; compare *wegan? (“to move”)), from Proto-Indo-European *we??- (“to move; pull; draw; drive”).

Cognate with Scots wecht, weicht (“weight”), Saterland Frisian Wächte (“scale”) and Gewicht (“weight”), West Frisian gewicht (“weight”), Dutch gewicht (“weight”), German Low German Wicht, Gewicht (“weight”) and German Gewicht (“weight”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?t, IPA^(key): /we?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: wait

Noun

weight (countable and uncountable, plural weights)

1. The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
2. An object used to make something heavier.
3. A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
4. Importance or influence.
   • 1907 Alonso de Espinosa, Hakluyt Society & Sir Clements Robert Markham, The Guanches of Tenerife: the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement, Printed for the Hakluyt Society, p116

     Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.

   • 1945 Mikia Pezas, The price of liberty, I. Washburn, Inc., p11

     "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.

5. (weightlifting) An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training.

6. (lubricants) viscosity rating.
8. (physics) Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances)
9. (physics, proscribed) Synonym of mass (in general circumstances)
10. (measurement) Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
11. (statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
12. (topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
13. (typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
14. (visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
15. (visual art) The illusion of mass.
16. (visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
17. Pressure; burden.
18. The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
19. (slang, uncountable) Shipments of (often illegal) drugs.

20. (slang, countable) One pound of drugs, especially cannabis.
    • 2002, Nicholas Dorn, Karim Murji, Nigel South, Traffickers: Drug Markets and Law Enforcement (page 5)

      [I was] doing a weight [1 lb. at that time] a week, sometimes more, sometimes less.
21. (criminal slang, dated) Money.
    • 1974, Martin R. Haskell, ?Lewis Yablonsky, Crime and Delinquency (page 96)

      No matter how much money he makes, he is still a soldier, but he has the weight.

Alternative forms

• wt. (abbreviation)

Derived terms

Related terms

• weigh

Coordinate terms

• mass
• inertial mass
• gravitational mass

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (ueito)
• ? Burmese: ???? (wit)

Translations

Verb

weight (third-person singular simple present weights, present participle weighting, simple past and past participle weighted)

1. (transitive) To add weight to something; to make something heavier.
   1. (transitive, dyeing) To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight.
2. (transitive) To load, burden or oppress someone.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
4. (transitive) To bias something; to slant.
5. (transitive, horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
6. (transitive, sports) To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc.

Translations

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