Zigzag and Pull

noun

• An angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions.
  • synonyms: zig, zag

verb

• Travel along a zigzag path.
  • usage: "The river zigzags through the countryside"
  • synonyms: crank

adjective

• Having short sharp turns or angles.
  • synonyms: zig-zag

adverb

• In a zigzag course or on a zigzag path.
  • usage: "birds flew zigzag across the blue sky"

• (v.i.) To move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.
• (a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
• (n.) Something that has short turns or angles.
• (n.) A molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron or series of chevrons. See Illust. of Chevron, 3.
• (n.) See Boyau.
• (v.t.) To form with short turns.

In a bull market, an Elliott three-wave pattern that subdivides into a 5-3-5 pattern with the top of wave B noticeably lower than the start of wave A. In a bear market, this pattern will be inverted. A price level that concludes a short-term rally in an ongoing trend. A bull market will be made up of a series of rally tops.

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"
  • synonyms: wrench, twist
• 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"
  • synonyms: puff, drag
• 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"
  • synonyms: draw, force
• 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"
  • synonyms: attract, pull in, draw, draw in
• 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"
  • synonyms: draw, pull out, get out, take out
• 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"
  • synonyms: rend, rip, rive
• 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"
  • synonyms: pluck, tear, deplume, deplumate, displume
• 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"
  • synonyms: extract, pull out, pull up, take out, draw out
• 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"

• (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.

Pull is used in the context of general equities. See: Cancel.