Usually means: Exert force to move closer.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pull: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pull: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pull: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pull: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pull, pull: Wordnik
  7. pull: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pull: Wiktionary
  9. pull: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pull: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pull: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pull: Dictionary.com
  13. pull (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pull: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pull (Mr. Mister album), Pull (Winger album), Pull (physics), Pull, The Pull: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pull: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pull: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pull: Rhymezone
  19. pull: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pull: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pull: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. pull: Free Dictionary
  23. pull: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pull: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. pull: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Pull (disambiguation), Pull (physics), pull: Legal dictionary
  3. Pull (disambiguation), Pull: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. pull: Netlingo
  3. pull: CCI Computer
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Pull (disambiguation), Pull (physics), pull: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Pull (disambiguation), Pull (physics), pull: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PULL: Acronym Finder
  2. pull: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull, pull: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pull: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Pull: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull: Pinochle Glossary
  2. Pull: Croquet
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Pull: Bicycle Glossary
  5. pull: Golfer's Dictionary
  6. Pull: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pull: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
verb:  To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck or pick (flowers, fruit, etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To attract or net; to pull in.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, chiefly UK, Ireland, slang) To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To interest (someone) in dating or pursuing one (whether or not this has led to sex).
verb:  (transitive) To remove or withdraw (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
verb:  (transitive) To retrieve or look up for use.
verb:  (construction) To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To do or perform, especially something seen as negative by the speaker.
verb:  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.).
verb:  To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
verb:  (intransitive) To row.
verb:  (transitive, rowing) To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine.
verb:  To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
verb:  (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
verb:  (video games, transitive, intransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
verb:  (UK) To score a certain number of points in a sport.
verb:  (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
verb:  (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
verb:  (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
verb:  (UK) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
verb:  (intransitive) To take a swig or mouthful of drink.
verb:  (rail transportation, US) Of a railroad car, to pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) (Followed by a preposition or adverb) To drive (a vehicle) in a particular direction or to a particular place.
verb:  (transitive, law enforcement) To pull over (a driver or vehicle); to detain for a traffic stop.
verb:  (cooking, transitive, intransitive) To repeatedly stretch taffy in order to achieve the desired stretchy texture.
verb:  (computing) To retrieve source code or other material from a source control repository.
verb:  (martial arts) In practice fighting, to reduce the strength of a blow (etymology 3) so as to avoid injuring one's practice partner.
verb:  (horse racing, transitive) To impede the progress of (a horse) to prevent its winning a race.
noun:  (countable) An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself).
noun:  (uncountable) An attractive force which causes motion towards the source.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative, informal) The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout.
noun:  (countable) Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
noun:  (countable, figurative) A randomized selection from a given set.
noun:  (Internet slang) A high-quality or funny recommendation by the algorithm.
noun:  (gacha games) A player's use of a game's gacha mechanic to obtain a random reward.
noun:  (figurative, slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; advantage.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) Appeal or attraction.
noun:  (Internet) The act or process of sending out a request for data from a server by a client.
noun:  (countable) A journey made by rowing.
noun:  (dated) A contest; a struggle.
noun:  (countable) An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; strain; sprain.
noun:  (obsolete, poetic) Loss, misfortune, or violence suffered.
noun:  (countable, colloquial) A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage; a mouthful or swig of a drink.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (golf) A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path.
noun:  (printing, historical) A single impression from a handpress.
noun:  (printing) A proof sheet.

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