ampulla | (noun) a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils | - |
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(noun) the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear | - |
ampullar | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullary |
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ampullary | (adjective) of or related to an ampulla | Synonyms: ampullar |
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bellpull | (noun) a handle or cord that is pulled to ring a doorbell or a servant's bell etc. | - |
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harpulla | (noun) fast-growing tree of India and East Indies yielding a wood used especially for building | Synonyms: Harpullia cupanioides |
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harpullia | (noun) any of various tree of the genus Harpullia | - |
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pull | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pulling |
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(noun) a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke) | Synonyms: drag, puff |
(noun) a sustained effort | - |
(noun) a device used for pulling something | - |
(noun) special advantage or influence | Synonyms: clout |
(noun) the force used in pulling | - |
(noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: twist, wrench |
(verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
(verb) take away | - |
(verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
(verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
(verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
(verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
(verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
(verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
(verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
(verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
(verb) move into a certain direction | - |
(verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
(verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
(verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
(verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
(verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
pullback | (noun) (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops) | - |
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(noun) a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back | Synonyms: tieback |
puller | (noun) someone who pulls or tugs or drags in an effort to move something | Synonyms: dragger, tugger |
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(noun) someone who applies force so as to cause motion toward herself or himself | - |
pullet | (noun) young hen usually less than a year old | - |
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(noun) flesh of a medium-sized young chicken suitable for frying | Synonyms: frier, fryer |
pulley | (noun) a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope | Synonyms: block, pulley-block, pulley block |
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pulling | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pull |
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pullout | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: disengagement, fallback |
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pullover | (noun) a sweater that is put on by pulling it over the head | Synonyms: slipover |
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pullulate | (verb) breed freely and abundantly | - |
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(verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, shoot, sprout, spud |
(verb) become abundant; increase rapidly | - |
(verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, stream, swarm, teem |
(verb) be teeming, be abuzz | Synonyms: swarm, teem |
pullulation | (noun) a rapid and abundant increase | - |
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(noun) asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | Synonyms: gemmation |