Weight vs Pull - What's the difference?
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The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by).
An object used to make something heavier.
A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object.
Importance or influence.
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(weightlifting) A disc of iron, dumbbell, or barbell used for training the muscles.
* He's working out with weights .
(physics) Mass (net weight, atomic weight, molecular weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.).
(statistics) A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation.
(topology) The smallest cardinality of a base.
(typography) The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes.
(visual art) The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight.
(visual art) The illusion of mass.
(visual art) The thickness and opacity of paint.
pressure; burden
* Shakespeare
* Milton
The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
To add weight to something, in order to make it heavier.
To load, burden or oppress someone.
(mathematics) To assign weights to individual statistics.
To bias something; to slant.
(horse racing) To handicap a horse with a specified weight.
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
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(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
Weight is a related term of pull.
In lang=en terms the difference between weight and pull
is that weight is to bias something; to slant while pull is to strain (a muscle, tendon, ligament, etc).As nouns the difference between weight and pull
is that weight is the force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by) while pull is an act of pulling (applying force).As verbs the difference between weight and pull
is that weight is to add weight to something, in order to make it heavier while pull is to apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force.weight
English
Noun
(wikipedia weight) (en noun)citation, passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}
- Another knight came to settle on the island, a man of much weight and position, on whom the Adelantados of all the island relied, and who was made a magistrate.
- "You surely are a man of some weight around here," I said.
- the weight of care or business
- The weight of this sad time.
- For the public all this weight he bears.
Derived terms
* flyweight * heavyweight * lightweight * pseudoweight * pull one's weight * throw one's weight around * topweight * weightful, weightfully, weightfulness * weightlifter * weightlifting * weight of the world * weighty * welterweightVerb
(en verb)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.