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pull up
Found in thesaurus: halt, stop, straighten, take away, take, remove, withdraw, cafe, coffee shop, coffee bar, coffeehouse, arm exercise
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pull up
v.
stop, come to a halt, pull in (of a car); overtake (in a race); improve the situation; rebuke, reprimand
n.
roadside restaurant; chin-up, act of suspending oneself from a bar and raising oneself with one's arms until one's chin is above the bar
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Pull up
Pull up may refer to:
- Pull-up (exercise), an upper body exercise
- Pull-up resistor, a technique in digital electronics
- Pull Up refactoring, a technique used in object-oriented programming
- Pull up, the process of changing a film from one frame rate to another - see telecine
- Training pants, a form of diaper that is in one solid piece, in the same form as underwear, lacking taped sides
- Pull-up jumper, a basketball move in which a player dribble drives, stops and shoots a jump shot
- Pull up, to stop or slow a racehorse during or after a race or workout.
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pull up
Verb
1. come to a halt after driving somewhere; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"
(synonym) draw up, haul up
(hypernym) stop, halt
(verb-group) draw up
(classification) driving
2. straighten oneself; "He drew himself up when he talked to his superior"
(synonym) draw up, straighten up
(hypernym) straighten
(derivation) pull-up, chin-up
3. cause (a vehicle) to stop; "He pulled up the car in front of the hotel"
(synonym) draw up
(hypernym) stop
(verb-group) draw up, haul up
(classification) driving
4. draw or pull out, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
(synonym) extract, pull out, pull, take out, draw out
(hypernym) remove, take, take away, withdraw
(hyponym) wring out, squeeze out
(verb-group) draw, pull, pull out, get out, take out
pull-up
Noun
1. a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers
(synonym) pull-in
(hypernym) cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2. an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar
(synonym) chin-up
(hypernym) arm exercise
(derivation) draw up, pull up, straighten up
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pull up
zahamować, zatrzymać pojazd
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pull up
Synonyms and related words:
arraign, arrest, avulse, bank, block, brake, bring to, bring up, bring up short, cease fire, check, checkmate, come up short, crab, cut out, cut short, dam, deadlock, deracinate, dig out, dig up, dip, disentangle, draw, draw out, draw rein, draw up, dredge, dredge up, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exsect, extract, extricate, feather, fetch up, file a claim, fishtail, freeze, get out, gouge out, grub up, halt, hang fire, haul up, have up, impeach, indict, loop, mine, pick out, plow, pluck out, pluck up, porpoise, prefer charges, pull, pull out, push down, put paid to, quarry, rake out, remove, rip out, roll, root out, root up, sideslip, skid, spin, spiral, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stick, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stunt, take out, tear out, undulate, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest out, yaw
arraign, arrest, avulse, bank, block, brake, bring to, bring up, bring up short, cease fire, check, checkmate, come up short, crab, cut out, cut short, dam, deadlock, deracinate, dig out, dig up, dip, disentangle, draw, draw out, draw rein, draw up, dredge, dredge up, eradicate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exsect, extract, extricate, feather, fetch up, file a claim, fishtail, freeze, get out, gouge out, grub up, halt, hang fire, haul up, have up, impeach, indict, loop, mine, pick out, plow, pluck out, pluck up, porpoise, prefer charges, pull, pull out, push down, put paid to, quarry, rake out, remove, rip out, roll, root out, root up, sideslip, skid, spin, spiral, stalemate, stall, stay, stem, stem the tide, stick, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stunt, take out, tear out, undulate, unearth, unravel, uproot, weed out, withdraw, wrest out, yaw
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