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say it: puul
pull is a verb and noun meaning "cause to move by pulling". It carries 24 recorded senses.
direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
“Her good looks attract the stares of many men”
“The ad pulled in many potential customers”
“This pianist pulls huge crowds”
“The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers”
perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
“perpetrate a crime”
“pull a bank robbery”
strain abnormally
“I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up”
“The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition”
hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing
“pull the ball”
baseball
the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you
“the pull up the hill had him breathing harder”
“his strenuous pulling strained his back”
a device used for pulling something
“he grabbed the pull and opened the drawer”
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
“he took a puff on his pipe”
“he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pull come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.