pull
part of speech
verb (pull, pulls, pulled, pulling); noun (a pull, pulls)
meaning for a pupil
1) To pull is to move something toward you by holding it. You pull a wagon or pull a door open. tree →
2) To pull out or pull up is to take something out: pull weeds, pull a tooth, pull a card from a pile. tree →
3) A pull is a force that draws things closer, like the pull of a magnet or of gravity. tree →
4) A vehicle pulls in, out or over when it moves to the side or stops. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: an action in the story: pulling weeds, pulling a wagon, pulling cards or marbles out of a bag; a thing pulled out is usually taken away from what is left. In science: forces are pushes and pulls; gravity pulls things down; magnets pull iron. In everyday life: «pull» signs on doors; «pull over». In stories: «pull yourself together», «pull someone's leg» (joke).
examples
- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate. (Writings LAM.3.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- And I will thrust thee from thy post, and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down. (Prophets ISA.22.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- And also pull out some for her of purpose from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.' (Writings RUT.2.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Sam pulls 12 weeds in the morning and 9 more in the afternoon. tree →
- She pulls 3 red marbles out of the bag. tree →
- A horse pulls a cart with 40 bags of grain. tree →
- How many weeds did they pull in all? tree →
- Gravity pulls the apple down to the ground. tree →
- The magnet pulls the paper clips toward it. tree →
- The door says «pull», not «push». tree →
- The car pulled over to let the ambulance pass. tree →
- Are you pulling my leg? tree →
- The Queen pulled off her shoes. tree →
note
Pulling out of a bag or box takes things away from the bag; pulling weeds or carrots counts how many were done, often added up. Trap: things pulled out of a bag are fewer in the bag but more in the hand. Opposite: push. In science a pull is a force measured in newtons. «Pull someone's leg» means tease or joke, not hurt.
In the corpora
- And I will thrust thee from thy post, and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.
- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
- A siren and flashing blue lights mean police are rushing to an emergency, and other drivers must pull over to let them through.
- Mum switches the telly off, sits down and pulls her in.
- Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pull» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.