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PULLING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
Example:
his strenuous pulling strained his back
Synonyms:
pull; pulling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pulling" is a kind of...):
actuation; propulsion (the act of propelling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pulling"):
drag (the act of dragging (pulling with force))
draw; haul; haulage (the act of drawing or hauling something)
jerk; tug (a sudden abrupt pull)
draft; draught; drawing (the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling)
deracination; excision; extirpation (the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence)
pluck (the act of pulling and releasing a taut cord)
traction ((orthopedics) the act of pulling on a bone or limb (as in a fracture) to relieve pressure or align parts in a special way during healing)
Derivation:
pull (cause to move by pulling)
pull (apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb pull
Context examples:
Being much flushed and excited, I tumbled my half-guinea out of my pocket in pulling the card out.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And secretly she added to herself, Lord bless me! when should I ever have thought of putting by in cotton a piece of court-plaister that Frank Churchill had been pulling about!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Into this he rushed, regardless of thorns, and threw himself into the heart of it, pulling me down by his side.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I could not have believed that Sir John Lade would have been guilty of such a trick as pulling that leader across.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This can be a result of tensile forces, compressive forces, shear, bending, tensile (pulling), or torsion.
(Device Deformation Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
A tool consisting of a pair of handled jaws designed for holding and pulling.
(Pincers, NCI Thesaurus)
The poor man thought he would try to better himself; so, pulling off his red coat, he became a gardener, and dug his ground well, and sowed turnips.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Planets in Capricorn blend beautifully with your sign of Scorpio, so you will be capable of pulling out all the stops to create success.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
An inflatable balloon attached to the endoscope's tip acts as a stabilizer and a second balloon that is advanced ahead of the endoscope acts as a pulling device.
(Balloon-Guided Endoscopic Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)
This nail, he continued, pulling off his hat and turning up his sightless orbs, is one of those wherewith man's salvation was secured.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
