pull vs weight

pull

noun
  • An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing. 

  • The act of drinking; a mouthful or swig of a drink. 

  • The situation where a client sends out a request for data from a server, as in server pull, pull technology 

  • A mishit shot which travels in a straight line and (for a right-handed player) left of the intended path. 

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

  • An attractive force which causes motion towards the source. 

  • Appeal or attraction (e.g. of a movie star). 

  • A single impression from a handpress. 

  • A journey made by rowing. 

  • A proof sheet. 

  • An act of pulling (applying force toward oneself). 

  • An injury resulting from a forceful pull on a limb, etc.; a strain. 

  • The power to influence someone or something; sway, clout. 

  • A type of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the on side; a pull shot. 

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

  • To obtain (a permit) from a regulatory authority. 

  • To row. 

  • To draw beer from a pump, keg, or other source. 

  • To do or perform. 

  • To score a certain number of points in a sport. 

  • To attract or net; to pull in. 

  • To pull out from a yard or station; to leave. 

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

  • To achieve by rowing on a rowing machine. 

  • To pluck or pick (flowers, fruit etc.). 

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

  • To draw apart; to tear; to rend. 

  • To hold back, and so prevent from winning. 

  • To remove (something), especially from public circulation or availability. 

  • To toss a frisbee with the intention of launching the disc across the length of a field. 

  • To persuade (someone) to have sex with one: to be 'on the pull' - looking for a sexual partner. 

  • To retrieve or generate for use. 

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

  • To take a swig or mouthful of drink. 

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

  • To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned. 

intj
  • Command used by a target shooter to request that the target be released/launched. 

weight

noun
  • Importance or influence. 

  • viscosity rating. 

  • An object used to make something heavier. 

  • Pressure; burden. 

  • An object, such as a weight plate or barbell, used for strength training. 

  • The relative thickness of a drawn rule or painted brushstroke, line weight. 

  • The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it. 

  • One pound of drugs, especially cannabis. 

  • The force on an object due to the gravitational attraction between it and the Earth (or whatever astronomical object it is primarily influenced by). 

  • The smallest cardinality of a base. 

  • A variable which multiplies a value for ease of statistical manipulation. 

  • Mass (net weight, troy weight, carat weight, etc.). 

  • The boldness of a font; the relative thickness of its strokes. 

  • Synonym of mass (in general circumstances) 

  • The thickness and opacity of paint. 

  • Shipments of (often illegal) drugs. 

  • Weight class 

  • Mass (atomic weight, molecular weight, etc.) (in restricted circumstances) 

  • A standardized block of metal used in a balance to measure the mass of another object. 

  • The illusion of mass. 

verb
  • To give a certain amount of force to a throw, kick, hit, etc. 

  • To load (fabrics) with barite, etc. to increase the weight. 

  • To load, burden or oppress someone. 

  • To bias something; to slant. 

  • To assign weights to individual statistics. 

  • To handicap a horse with a specified weight. 

  • To add weight to something; to make something heavier. 

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