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# pull

«pull» in Mova's school dictionary: **to move something toward you by holding it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#m1)

2) To pull out or pull up is to take something out: pull weeds, pull a tooth, pull a card from a pile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#m2)

3) A pull is a force that draws things closer, like the pull of a magnet or of gravity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#m3)

4) A vehicle pulls in, out or over when it moves to the side or stops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#m4)

### 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

- Sam pulls 12 weeds in the morning and 9 more in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x1)
- She pulls 3 red marbles out of the bag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x2)
- A horse pulls a cart with 40 bags of grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x3)
- How many weeds did they pull in all? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x4)
- Gravity pulls the apple down to the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x5)
- The magnet pulls the paper clips toward it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x6)
- The door says «pull», not «push». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x7)
- The car pulled over to let the ambulance pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x8)
- Are you pulling my leg? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x9)
- The Queen pulled off her shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/#x10)

### 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

- [A siren and flashing blue lights mean police are rushing to an emergency, and other drivers must pull over to let them through.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/30-police-courts-and-prison/5/)
- [Mum switches the telly off, sits down and pulls her in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/6/)
- [Pulling out that one bar and playing it slowly fixes it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/3-practising-when-you-would-rather-not/2/)
- [A frog swallows prey whole and pulls its eyeballs down into its head to help push the food down its throat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/32-frogs-toads-newts-and-salamanders/10/)
- [When a perching bird bends its legs, tendons pull its toes tight round the branch, so it can sleep without falling off.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pull» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pull/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.