How to pronounce “pull”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
• To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
• (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
• (ambitransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
• (ambitransitive, US, slang) To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
• (transitive) To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
• (transitive) To retrieve or look up for use.
• (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
• (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
• To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour associated with the person or thing mentioned (with a and the name of a person, place, event, etc.).
• To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
• (intransitive) To row.
• (transitive) To transport by rowing.
• (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
• To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
• (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
• (video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
• (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
• (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
• (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.)
• (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
• (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
• (rail transportation, US) Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
• (transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
• (transitive, law enforcement) To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
• (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
• (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
• (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
• (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
• [Interjection]
• (gun sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
• [Noun]
• (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
• (uncountable) An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
• (uncountable, figurative) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
• (uncountable, figurative, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
• (countable) Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
• (countable, figurative) A randomized selection from a given set.
• (figurative, slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; advantage.
• (uncountable, figurative) Appeal or attraction.
• (Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
• (countable) A journey made by rowing.
• (dated) A contest; a struggle.
• (countable) An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
• (obsolete, poetic) Loss, misfortune, or violence suffered.
• (countable, colloquial) A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
• (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.
• (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.

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