Word Type
Pull can be a verb or a noun.
pull used as a verb:
- To apply a force to (an object) such that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
- To persuade (someone) to have sex with one.
"He's pulled that bird over there." - to remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability
"Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves." - to do or perform
"He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14." - To retrieve or generate for use.
"I'll have to pull a part number for that." - To apply a force such that an object comes toward the person or thing applying the force.
"You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle." - To succeed in finding a person with whom to have sex or to make out with somebody which is not in a relationship with you, eg "I pulled tonight!" - meaning the person made out.
- Initiate combat with an enemy character in an online game.
- To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
pull used as a noun:
- An act of pulling (applying force).
"He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out." - An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
"The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant." - Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
"a zipper pull" - influence, especially as a means of gaining advantage
- Appeal or attraction or (as of a movie star)
- The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is pull?
- Verb usage: He's pulled that bird over there.
- Verb usage: Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.
- Verb usage: He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
- Verb usage: I'll have to pull a part number for that.
- Verb usage: You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle.
- Noun usage: He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
- Noun usage: The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.
- Noun usage: iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet
- Noun usage: a zipper pull
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of pull are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of pull, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
