contrivance
gadget
convenience
gizmo
contraption
gismo
widget
appliance
dual control
instrument
remote
remote control
gun
master
setup
keyholder
apparatus
fixture
automation
linkage
slave
governor
keypunch
go-devil
stop
mechanic
electronic device
clutch
jig
manipulator
efficiency expert
efficiency engineer
controller
unroller
upconverter
joystick
spoiler
compander
electrical switch
retcon
derrick
handboard
adapter
adaptor
switch
aerial work platform
electric switch
tool
mnemometer
alarm
tricorder
cytometer
digital
fan
lever
seat
regulator
multiplexer
cryopump
lockpicker
appurtenance
bellpull
applier
stock-in-trade
device
steering
parachute
balance board
equipped
furnished
compandor
manhandle
beige box
destemmer
modulator
prefiller
enucleator
in control
game
pushpad
tackle
flatscreen
attachment
gear lever
emptier
gearstick
gearshift
power
mechanical
dynamotor
shifter
override
pull
tacker
inserter
compensator
equipped
furnished
mechanical
contrivance
gadget
convenience
gizmo
contraption
gismo
widget
appliance
dual control
instrument
remote
remote control
gun
master
setup
keyholder
apparatus
fixture
automation
linkage
governor
go-devil
stop
mechanic
electronic device
clutch
jig
manipulator
efficiency expert
efficiency engineer
controller
unroller
upconverter
joystick
spoiler
compander
electrical switch
derrick
handboard
adapter
adaptor
switch
aerial work platform
electric switch
tool
mnemometer
alarm
tricorder
cytometer
digital
fan
lever
seat
regulator
multiplexer
lockpicker
appurtenance
bellpull
applier
stock-in-trade
device
steering
balance board
compandor
beige box
destemmer
modulator
prefiller
enucleator
game
pushpad
tackle
flatscreen
attachment
gear lever
emptier
gearstick
gearshift
dynamotor
shifter
override
pull
tacker
inserter
compensator
slave
keypunch
retcon
cryopump
parachute
manhandle
power
noun
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- the act of devising something
noun
- a device that requires skill for proper use
- the means whereby some act is accomplished
- a person used by another to gain an end
- (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right
- the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process
- any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
verb
noun
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
- A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- The biceps.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
- Violent blasts of wind.
- An expert.
- Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
- A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.^(21-gun salute)
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- An electron gun.
verb
noun
- A device that is controlling other devices or is an authoritative source.
- Someone who has control over something or someone.
- A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.
- A vessel having a specified number of masts.
- The original of a document or of a recording.
- A male dominant.
- A master's degree; a type of postgraduate degree, usually undertaken after a bachelor degree.
- The primary wide shot of a scene, into which the closeups will be edited later.
- A tradesman who is qualified to teach apprentices.
- The owner of an animal or slave.
- A skilled artist.
- Someone who employs others.
- A person holding an office of authority, especially the presiding officer.
- A person holding such a degree.
- The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
- An expert at something.
- A person holding a similar office in other civic societies.
adj
verb
noun
- A device or component for holding a key.
- The individual or organisation with access to a cryptographic key.
- A dominant partner who controls whether their submissive partner is able or allowed to orgasm or receive sexual stimulation, typically by locking the submissive partner in a chastity belt or chastity cage.
- One who holds the key to a building etc. for security reasons.
noun
- A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
- A scheduled match.
- A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
- A lighting unit; a luminaire.
- Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
- A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
verb
noun
- A mechanical device that connects things.
- A connection or relation between things or ideas.
- The act or result of linking: the combination of multiple object files into one executable, library, or object file.
- A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.
- The property of genes of being inherited together.
- A set of definitely related languages for which no proto-language can be derived, typically a group of languages within a family that have formed a sprachbund.
verb
- To place a device under the control of another.
- To work as a slaver, to enslave people.
- To work hard.
noun
- A sex slave, a person who is forced against their will to perform, for another person or group, sexual acts on a regular or continuing basis.
- An abject person.
- A submissive partner in a BDSM relationship who (consensually) submits to (sexually and/or personally) serving one or more masters or mistresses.
- A device (such as a secondary flash or hard drive) that is subject to the control of another (a master).
- A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.
- A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.
- One who has no power of resistance (to something), one who surrenders to or is under the domination (of something).
noun
- A device which regulates or controls some action of a machine through automatic feedback.
- A constituent of a phrase that governs another.
- A member of a decision-making for an organization or entity (including some public agencies) similar to or equivalent to a board of directors (used especially for banks); a member of the board of governors.
- A pilot; a steersman.
- Father.
- Boss; employer; gaffer.
- The chief executive officer of a first-level division of a country.
noun
- A gadget or unspecified device, as used in various industries.
- A rough sled or dray used for dragging logs, hauling stone, etc.
- A device, such as a loosely fitted plug, which is driven through a pipe by the pressure of the contents behind the plug to clear away obstructions.
- A weight which is dropped into a bore, as of an oil well, to explode a cartridge previously lowered.
noun
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- An f-stop.
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
verb
- To cause (something) to come to an end.
- To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- To cease moving.
- To end someone else's activity.
- To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- To make fast; to stopper.
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- To close or block an opening.
- Not to continue.
punct
noun
- A device, command, or feature which allows someone to achieve a specific task.
- A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.
- A manual worker; a labourer or artisan.
- A hitman.
- Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar.
noun
- Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.
- The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
- An important or critical situation.
- A brood of chickens or a sitting of eggs.
- A device to interrupt power transmission, commonly used to separate the engine and gearbox in a car.
- A fastener that attaches to the back of a tack pin to secure an accessory to clothing. (See Clutch (pin fastener).)
- A small handbag or purse with no straps or handle.
- A group or bunch (of people or things).
- A grip, especially one seen as rapacious or evil.
- The pedal in a car that disengages power and torque transmission from the engine (through the drivetrain) to the drive wheels.
- A difficult maneuver
adj
verb
noun
- A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.
- A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
- A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
- A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
- An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
- A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
verb
- To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
- To move briskly, especially as a dance.
- To sing to the tune of a jig.
- To fish with a jig.
- To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
- To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
- To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
noun
- Any electric or mechanical device for controlling a circuit or system.
- An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged.
- The chief accounting officer which audits, and manages the financial affairs of a company or government; a comptroller.
- One who controls something.
- The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
- In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that treat input and output, forming an interface between models and views.
- A hardware device designed to allow the user to play video games.
- A mechanism that controls or regulates the operation of a machine, especially a peripheral device in a computer.
- The subject of a control verb. See Control (linguistics)
noun
- A device to reduce lift and increase downforce.
- An individual (or organisation etc.), unable to win themselves, who spoils the chances of another's victory.
- One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.
- A document, review or comment that discloses the ending or some key surprise or twist in a story, or the internal rules controlling the behaviour of a video game, etc.
- A device to reduce lift and increase drag.
- One who corrupts, mars, or renders useless.
verb
noun
- A device for securing, supporting, or guiding the hand; a handrest or splint.
- A flat surface with a handle on one side, used by a mason or plasterer; a hawk or mortarboard.
- A board that is held in the hand or attached by a strap, used like a paddle when bodysurfing.
- A tablet-sized surface for writing or displaying text and images.
- A long narrow board with a catch for holding a dart, spear, or harpoon used as a throwing device.
- An artist's palette.
- A hand tool used to apply pressure to skins in order to finish them.
- A small hand-painted wooden sign, especially one indicating the direction (and possibly distance) to a particular location.
verb
noun
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
verb
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- make a shift in or exchange of
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
noun
- A mechanical device intended to make a task easier.
- A penis, notably with a sexual or erotic connotation.
- A person or group which is used or controlled, usually unwittingly, by another person or group.
- Something to perform an operation; an instrument; a means.
- Any piece of equipment used in a profession, e.g. a craftman's tools.
- A gun.
- A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- An obnoxious or uptight person.
verb
- To equip with tools.
- To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather.
- To work very hard.
- To intentionally attack the ball so that it deflects off a blocker out of bounds.
- To travel in a vehicle; to ride or drive.
- To put down another person (possibly in a subtle, hidden way), and in that way to use him or her to meet a goal.
noun
- A mechanical device for awaking people, or rousing their attention.
- An instance of an alarm ringing, beeping or clanging, to give a noise signal at a certain time.
- A sudden attack; disturbance.
- Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
- A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
- Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise.
verb
noun
- An electrical or mechanical device for moving air, used for cooling people, machinery, etc.
- A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock mill always in the direction of the wind.
- Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.
- A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.
- An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.
- The action of fanning; agitation of the air.
- A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself.
- A section of a tree having a finite number of branches
verb
- To dispel by waving a hand-held fan.
- To strike out.
- To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan.
- To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- To slap (a behind, especially).
- To invigorate, like flames when fanned.
- To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise.
- To apply (the air brake) many times in rapid succession.
- To strike out (a batter).
- To winnow grain.
noun
- A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
- A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
- An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
- A levee.
- A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
- Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.
verb
noun
- a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- furniture that is designed for sitting on
- any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
- a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
- the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
- the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
- the cloth covering for the buttocks
verb
noun
- A device that controls or limits something.
- A bulldozer (member of intimidating group of white US Southerners).
- A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially those established by law.
- A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
- A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
- A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
noun
- Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
- That which appertains; an appendage to something else; an addition.
- A subordinate interest in land which benefits a principal estate, which cannot be detached from or held separately to that estate; an appurtenant interest.
- A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
- The state or quality of being an appurtenance.
noun
- Any piece of equipment made for a particular purpose, especially a mechanical or electrical one.
- A peripheral device; an item of hardware.
- An improvised explosive device, home-made bomb
- A technique that an author or speaker uses to evoke an emotional response in the audience; a rhetorical device.
- An image used in whole or in part as a trademark or service mark.
- A motto, emblem, or other mark used to distinguish the bearer from others. A device differs from a badge or cognizance primarily as it is a personal distinction, and not a badge borne by members of the same house successively.
- A project or scheme, often designed to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
- An image or logo denoting official or proprietary authority or provenience.
verb
- To introduce into a place using such a device.
- To jump, fall, descend, etc. using such a device.
- To place (somebody) in an organisation in a position of authority without their having previous experience there; used with in or into.
noun
- A web or fold of skin extending between the legs of gliding mammals, such as the flying squirrel and colugo.
- A small collar which fastens around the scrotum and from which weights can be hung.
- A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.
- A piece of cloth used in physical education often colorful and surrounded by handles.
noun
noun
- A device used in phreaking, technically equivalent to a telephone company lineman's handset: a telephone fitted with alligator clips to attach it to a line.
- An outdated personal computer.
- A desktop computer in the style typical of personal computers of the 1980s and 1990s, having a boxy off-white case and CRT monitor.
noun
- The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
- Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- A school subject during which sports are practised.
- A particular instance of playing a game.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- wild animals hunted for food.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
verb
- To gamble.
- To play card games, board games, or video games.
- To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adj
noun
- A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
- Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground.
- A block and tackle.
- A man's genitalia.
- Equipment, gear, gadgetry.
- A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
- Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling.
- An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position.
- A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
- Clothing.
- A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position.
verb
- To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in.
- To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down.
- To bring a ball carrier to the ground.
- To attempt to take away a ball.
- To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them.
noun
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- A file sent along with a message, usually an email.
- The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
verb
- To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device).
- To hit or kick something forcefully.
- To enable or provide the impetus for.
noun
- Physical force or strength.
- Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).
- The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.
- The ability to do or undergo something.
- An influential nation, company, or other such body.
- Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).
- In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.
- A measure of the effectiveness that a force producing a physical effect has over time. If linear, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the displacement of or in an object) ÷ time. If rotational, the quotient of: (force multiplied by the angle of displacement) ÷ time.
- The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.
- The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.
- The ability to affect or influence.
- A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): xⁿ, read as "x to the power of n" or the like, is called a power and denotes the product x⨯x⨯⋯⨯x, where x appears n times in the product; x is called the base and n the exponent.
- Cardinality.
- The ability to coerce, influence, or control.
- Electricity or a supply of electricity.
adj
adj
- Handy with machines.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
- Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- Done by machine.
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
noun
- An instance of equipment failure.
- A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- A mechanical engineer.
- Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- A robot or mechanical creature.
noun
- A mechanism, device or procedure used to counteract an automatic control.
- A royalty.
- A method with the same name and signature as a method in a superclass, which runs instead of that method, when an object of the subclass is involved.
- A device for prioritizing audio signals, such that certain signals receive priority over others.
verb
- To give commands of a higher priority to an automated system; to take manual control of an automated system
- To define a new behaviour of a method by creating the same method of the superclass with the same name and signature.
- To ride a horse too hard.
- To ride over the top of something, usually forcibly.
- To ride across or beyond something.
- To counteract the normal operation of something; to countermand with orders of higher priority.
noun
- Any device meant to be pulled, as a lever, knob, handle, or rope.
- 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.
- 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.
- An advantage over somebody; a means of influencing.
- 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.
intj
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.
noun
- Any device used to compensate for something, notably to achieve a better balance.
- A party or thing which compensates, pays or otherwise provides a compensation
- A building control device used to deliver the compensation relationship or curve between the air temperature outside a building and the temperature of water or air provided to spaces or zones within the building for purposes of heating or cooling.
- One of several small magnets placed in the binnacle to neutralize the effect of the ship's metal on the compass
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