Pull vs Call - What's the difference?

Pull is a related term of call.

In cricket|lang=en terms the difference between pull and call

is that pull is (cricket) a kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side while call is (cricket) the state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes).

As verbs the difference between pull and call

is that pull is to apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force while call is (lb) to use one's voice .

As nouns the difference between pull and call

is that pull is an act of pulling (applying force) while call is a telephone conversation.

pull

English

Verb

(en verb)

to apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force

* Bible, Genesis viii. 9

He put forth his hand and pulled her in.

* Shakespeare

Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.

To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.

to pull''' fruit from a tree; to '''pull''' flax; to '''pull a finch

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 attract or net; to pull in.

* Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society

Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.

To draw apart; to tear; to rend.

* Bible, Lam. iii. 11

He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

(ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) to persuade (someone) to have sex with one

I pulled at the club last night.

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.

(informal) to do or perform

He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.

You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.

to retrieve or generate for use

I'll have to pull a part number for that.

* 2006 , Michael Bellomo, Joel Elad, How to Sell Anything on Amazon...and Make a Fortune!

They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.

to toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field

to row

* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI

It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.

To strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc.).

(video games, ambitransitive) To draw (a hostile non-player character) into combat, or toward or away from some location or target.

* 2003 April 9, "Richard Lawson" (username), " Monual's Willful Ignorance", in alt.games.everquest, Usenet:

…we had to clear a long hallway, run up half way, pull the boss mob to us, and engage.

* 2004 October 18, "Stush" (username), " Re: focus pull", in alt.games.dark-age-of-camelot, Usenet:

Basically buff pet, have it pull lots of mobs, shield pet, chain heal pet, have your aoe casters finish off hurt mobs once pet gets good aggro.

* 2005 August 2, "Brian" (username), " Re: How to tank Stratholme undead pulls?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

This is the only thing that should get you to break off from your position, is to pull something off the healer.

* 2007 April 10, "John Salerno" (username), " Re: Managing the Command Buttons", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

You could also set a fire trap, pull the mob toward it, then send in your pet….

* 2008 August 18, "Mark (newsgroups)" (username), " Re: I'm a priest now!", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

Shield yourself, pull' with Mind Blast if you want, or merely ' pull with SW:P to save mana, then wand, fear if you need to, but use the lowest rank fear.

to score a certain amount of points in a sport.

* How many points did you pull today, Albert?

(horse-racing) To hold back, and so prevent from winning.

The favourite was pulled .

(printing, dated) To take or make (a proof or impression); so called because hand presses were worked by pulling a lever.

(cricket) To strike the ball in a particular manner. (See noun sense.)

* R. H. Lyttelton

Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.

(UK, slang) To pour beer from a pump, keg, or other source.

Let's stop at Finnigan's. The barkeep ''pulls'' a good pint.

Synonyms

* drag, tow, tug, yank * score * (to remove from circulation) recall, withdraw, yank * (sense) carry out, complete, do, execute, perform * (to retrieve or generate for use) generate, get, get hold of, get one's hands on, lay one's hands on, obtain, retrieve * score

Antonyms

* push, repel, shove

Derived terms

See also pulling * it's not the whistle that pulls the train * overpull * pull a... * pull about * pull a face * pull a fast one * pull ahead * pull away * pull back * pull down * pull for * pull in * pulling * pull in one's horns * pull off * pull oneself together * pull one's weight * pull out * pull out all the stops * pull out of the fire * pull over * pull-quote * pull rank * pull round * pull somebody's leg * pull the other one * * pull the wool over someone's eyes * pull through * pull together * pull up

Noun

(en noun)

An act of pulling (applying force)

He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.

* Jonathan Swift

I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box.

An attractive force which causes motion towards the source

The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.

iron fillings drawn by the pull of a magnet

She took a pull on her cigarette.

Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope

a zipper pull

(slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.

In weights the favourite had the pull .

Appeal or attraction (as of a movie star)

(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull'', ''pull technology

A journey made by rowing

* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V

As Blunt had said, the burning ship lay a good twelve miles from the Malabar, and the pull was a long and a weary one. Once fairly away from the protecting sides of the vessel that had borne them thus far on their dismal journey, the adventurers seemed to have come into a new atmosphere.

(dated) A contest; a struggle.

a wrestling pull

(Carew)

(obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.

* Shakespeare

Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.

(slang) The act of drinking.

to take a pull at a mug of beer

(Charles Dickens)

(cricket) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

* R. A. Proctor

The pull is not a legitimate stroke, but bad cricket.

Synonyms

* (act of pulling) tug, yank * (attractive force) attraction * (device meant to be pulled) handle, knob, lever, rope * (influence) influence, sway

Antonyms

* (act of pulling) push, shove * (attractive force) repulsion * (device meant to be pulled) button, push, push button * (influence)

Derived terms

* on the pull * pull cord * ring-pull

call

English

(wikipedia call)

Noun

(en noun)

A telephone conversation.

I received several phone calls today.

I received several calls today.

A short visit, usually for social purposes.

I paid a call to a dear friend of mine.

* Cowper

the baker's punctual call

A cry or shout.

He heard a call from the other side of the room.

A decision or judgement.

That was a good call .

The characteristic cry of a bird or other animal.

That sound is the distinctive call of the cuckoo bird.

A beckoning or summoning.

I had to yield to the call of the wild.

* Addison

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity.

* Macaulay

running into danger without any call of duty

(finance) An option to buy stock at a specified price during or at a specified time.

(cricket) The act of calling to the other batsman.

(cricket) The state of being the batsman whose role it is to call (depends on where the ball goes.)

A work shift which requires one to be available when requested (see on call).

* 1978 , , The Practice , Harper & Row, ISBN 9780060131944:

page 48: “Mondays would be great, especially after a weekend of call .”

page 56: “ I’ve got call tonight, and all weekend, but I’ll be off tomorrow to help you some.”

* 2007 , William D. Bailey, You Will Never Run Out of Jesus , CrossHouse Publishing, ISBN 978-0-929292-24-3:

page 29: I took general-surgery call' at Bossier Medical Center and asked special permission to take general-medical '''call''', which was gladly given away by the older staff members: . You would be surprised at how many surgical cases came out of medical ' call .

page 206: My first night of primary medical call was greeted about midnight with a very ill 30-year-old lady who had a temperature of 103 degrees.

* 2008 , Jamal M. Bullocks et al., Plastic Surgery Emergencies: Principles and Techniques , Thieme, ISBN 978-1-58890-670-0, page ix:

We attempted to include all topics that we ourselves have faced while taking plastic surgery call at the affiliated hospitals in the Texas Medical Center, one of the largest medical centers in the world, which sees over 100,000 patients per day.

* 2009 , Steven Louis Shelley, A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting , page 171:

The columns in the second rectangle show fewer hours, but part of that is due to the fact that there's a division between a work call' and a show ' call .

(computing) The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.

A statement of a particular state, or rule, made in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

There was a 20 dollar bet on the table, and my call was 9.

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.

A note blown on the horn to encourage the dogs in a hunt.

(nautical) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate to summon the sailors to duty.

A pipe to call birds by imitating their note or cry.

An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as its pastor.

Vocation; employment; calling.

A reference to, or statement of, an object, course, distance, or other matter of description in a survey or grant requiring or calling for a corresponding object, etc., on the land.

Quotations

* 2007 , Latina , volume 11, page 101: *: We actually have a call tomorrow, which is a Sunday, right after my bridal shower. I have to make enchiladas for 10 people!

Derived terms

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Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To use one's voice.

#(lb) To request, summon, or beckon.

#*(John Bunyan) (1628-1688)

#*:They called for rooms, and he showed them one.

#(lb) To cry or shout.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:You must call to the nurse.

#*(Rudyard Kipling) (1865-1936), Merrow Down

#*:For far — oh, very far behind, / So far she cannot call to him, / Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him!

#(lb) To utter in a loud or distinct voice.

#*(John Gay) (1685-1732)

#*:no parish clerk who calls the psalm so clear

# To contact by telephone.

#(lb) To declare in advance.

#To rouse from sleep; to awaken.

#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

#*:If thou canst awake by four o' the clock, / I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly.

To visit.

#To pay a (social) visit.

#* (1628–1699)

#*:He ordered her to call at the house once a week.

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#To stop at a station or port.

(lb) To name, identify or describe.

#(lb) To name or refer to.

#*, chapter=7

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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

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#(lb) Of a person, to have as one's name; of a thing, to have as its name.

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#(lb) To predict.

#To state, or estimate, approximately or loosely; to characterize without strict regard to fact.

#*(John Brougham) (1814-1880)

#*:[The] army is called seven hundred thousand men.

#(lb) To disclose the class or character of; to identify.

#*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

#*:This speech calls him Spaniard.

Direct or indirect use of the voice.

#(lb) (of a batsman): To shout directions to the other batsman on whether or not they should take a run.

# (of a fielder): To shout to other fielders that he intends to take a catch (thus avoiding collisions).

# To match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet.

#(lb) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.

To require, .

*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

To announce the early extinction of a debt by prepayment, usually at a premium.

To demand repayment of a loan.

To jump to (another part of a program) to perform some operation, returning to the original point on completion.

Synonyms

* See also * See also

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the verb "call") * becall * call a spade a spade * call after * call by * call back * call down * call for * call in * call into question * call it a day * call it quits * call off * call on * call out * call round * call someone's bluff * call the shots * call the tune * call time * call to account * call to the Bar * call up * call upon * calling * miscall

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