Pull vs Purl - What's the difference?
pull | purl |
to apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force
* Bible, Genesis viii. 9
* Shakespeare
To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck.
to apply a force such that an object comes toward the person or thing applying the force
To attract or net; to pull in.
* Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
* Bible, Lam. iii. 11
(ambitransitive, UK, Ireland, slang) to persuade (someone) to have sex with one
to remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability
(informal) to do or perform
to retrieve or generate for use
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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
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.
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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.
(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
(UK, slang) To pour beer from a pump, keg, or other source.
An act of pulling (applying force)
* Jonathan Swift
An attractive force which causes motion towards the source
Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope
(slang, dated) Something in one's favour in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing.
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
(dated) A contest; a struggle.
(obsolete, poetic) Loss or violence suffered.
* Shakespeare
(slang) The act of drinking.
(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
A particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.
The edge of lace trimmed with loops.
An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge
(knitting) an inverted stitch producing ribbing etc
(archaic) To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong.
To flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.
* Alexander Pope
To rise in circles, ripples, or undulations; to curl; to mantle.
* Shakespeare
(UK, dialect) A circle made by the motion of a fluid; an eddy; a ripple.
* Drayton
(UK, dialect) A gentle murmuring sound, such as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions.
(archaic) Ale or beer spiced with wormwood or other bitter herbs, regarded as a tonic.
* The Spectator , number 88
(archaic) Hot beer mixed with gin, sugar, and spices.
* Addison
* Charles Dickens
In intransitive terms the difference between pull and purl
is that pull is to row while purl is to flow with a murmuring sound in swirls and eddies.As verbs the difference between pull and purl
is that pull is to apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force while purl is to decorate with fringe or embroidered edge.As nouns the difference between pull and purl
is that pull is an act of pulling (applying force while purl is a particular stitch in knitting; an inversion of stitches giving the work a ribbed or waved appearance.pull
English
Verb
(en verb)- He put forth his hand and pulled her in.
- Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows.
- to pull''' fruit from a tree; to '''pull''' flax; to '''pull a finch
- You're going to have to pull harder to get that cork out of the bottle.
- Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies.
- He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.
- I pulled at the club last night.
- He's pulled that bird over there.
- Each day, they pulled the old bread and set out fresh loaves.
- He regularly pulls 12-hour days, sometimes 14.
- You'll be sent home if you pull another stunt like that.
- I'll have to pull a part number for that.
- They'll go through their computer system and pull a report of all your order fulfillment records for the time period you specify.
- It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
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.
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.
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.
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….
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.
- The favourite was pulled .
- Never pull a straight fast ball to leg.
- 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 * scoreAntonyms
* push, repel, shoveDerived 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 upNoun
(en noun)- He gave the hair a sharp pull and it came out.
- I awakened with a violent pull upon the ring which was fastened at the top of my box.
- 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.
- a zipper pull
- In weights the favourite had the pull .
- 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.
- a wrestling pull
- (Carew)
- Two pulls at once; / His lady banished, and a limb lopped off.
- to take a pull at a mug of beer
- (Charles Dickens)
- 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, swayAntonyms
* (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-pullpurl
English
Etymology 1
Etymology uncertain; apparently related to Scots and dialect pirl ("twist, ripple, whirl, spin"), and possibly to Older Scots pyrl ("thrust or poke at"). Compare Venetian pirlo , an embellishment where the woven threads are twisted together. May be unrelated to purfle, though the meanings are similar.Noun
(en noun)- A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched with purl and pearl.
Verb
(en verb)- Needlework purled with gold.
- Knit one, purl two.
Etymology 2
from (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- The huntsman was purled from his horse.
Etymology 3
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Swift o'er the rolling pebbles, down the hills, / Louder and louder purl the falling rills.
- thin winding breath which purled up to the sky
Noun
(en noun)- Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, / Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles , / As though the waves had been of silver curls.
- the purl of a brook
Etymology 4
Possibly from the pearl-like appearance caused by bubbles on the surface of the liquid.Noun
(-)- A double mug of purle .
- Drank a glass of purl to recover appetite.
- Drinking hot purl , and smoking pipes.