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What does pull mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pull? Here's what it means.

Interjection
  1. (sports) Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched.
Noun
  1. An act of pulling (applying force)
  2. An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
  3. (slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
  4. Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star)
  5. (Internet) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology
  6. A journey made by rowing
  7. (dated) A contest; a struggle.
  8. (obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
  9. (slang) The act of drinking.
  10. (cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.
Verb
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
  2. To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
  3. To attract or net; to pull in.
  4. To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
  5. (transitive) To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability.
  6. (transitive, informal) To do or perform.
  7. (transitive) To retrieve or generate for use.
  8. To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
  9. (intransitive) To row.
  10. (transitive) To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).
  11. (video game) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.
  12. To score a certain amount of points in a sport.
  13. (horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.
  14. (printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.
  15. (cricket, golf) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)
  16. (Britain) To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
  17. (rail transportation, US, of a railroad car) To pull out from a yard or station; to leave.
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