- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Pull
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- The act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you.
- usage: "the pull up the hill had him breathing harder"; "his strenuous pulling strained his back"
- synonyms: pulling
- The force used in pulling.
- usage: "the pull of the moon"; "the pull of the current"
- Special advantage or influence.
- usage: "the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull"
- synonyms: clout
- A device used for pulling something.
- usage: "he grabbed the pull and opened the drawer"
- A sharp strain on muscles or ligaments.
- usage: "the wrench to his knee occurred as he fell"; "he was sidelined with a hamstring pull"
- A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke. )
- usage: "he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
- A sustained effort.
- usage: "it was a long pull but we made it"
verb
- Cause to move by pulling.
- usage: "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"
- Direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes.
- usage: "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
- Move into a certain direction.
- usage: "the car pulls to the right"
- Apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion.
- usage: "Pull the rope"; "Pull the handle towards you"; "pull the string gently"; "pull the trigger of the gun"; "pull your knees towards your chin"
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, commit
- Bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover.
- usage: "draw a weapon"; "pull out a gun"; "The mugger pulled a knife on his victim"
- Steer into a certain direction.
- usage: "pull one's horse to a stand"; "Pull the car over"
- Strain abnormally.
- usage: "I pulled a muscle in my leg when I jumped up"; "The athlete pulled a tendon in the competition"
- synonyms: overstretch
- Cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense.
- usage: "A declining dollar pulled down the export figures for the last quarter"
- synonyms: draw
- Operate when rowing a boat.
- usage: "pull the oars"
- Rein in to keep from winning a race.
- usage: "pull a horse"
- Tear or be torn violently.
- usage: "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
- Hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing.
- usage: "pull the ball"
- Strip of feathers.
- usage: "pull a chicken"; "pluck the capon"
- Remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense.
- usage: "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- Take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for.
- usage: "We all rooted for the home team"; "I'm pulling for the underdog"; "Are you siding with the defender of the title"
- synonyms: root for
- Take away.
- usage: "pull the old soup cans from the supermarket shelf"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To gather with the hand or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
- (v.t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
- (v.t.) To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
- (v.t.) To hold back, and so prevent from winning; as, the favorite was pulled.
- (v.t.) To draw or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
- (n.) Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
- (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
- (n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
- (n.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
- (v.i.) To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
- (n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
- (n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer or the mug.
- (n.) A knob, handle or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
- (v.t.) To take or make, as a proof or impression; -- hand presses being worked by pulling a lever.
- (v.t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
- (n.) A kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side or an off ball to the side.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Pull is used in the context of general equities. See: Cancel.