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means To exert force on something in order to move it toward you, or figuratively to attract or draw something in.
from From Old English 'pullian,' meaning to pluck or draw, with cousins scattered across the Germanic languages. Its older flavor was rougher than ours — to pluck a feather, snatch wool, tug something loose — and over centuries the snatching softened into the steady, toward-you drag we know now. The magnetic sense (a person's 'pull,' having 'pull' with someone) is a much later metaphor riding on that same physical tug.
- door fails
- Most pull-vs-push confusion is bad design, not bad brains
- tractor beam
- Gravity is the universe's only unkillable pull
- social gravity
- Charisma is just emotional pull you can't measure
- muscle truth
- Pulling recruits more back muscles than pushing
- printing root
- To pull a proof once meant printing one literally
apollo 13 oxygen tank — explosion in 1970 that nearly killed 3 astronauts, requiring improvised repairs
tug of war olympics — competitive sport at summer olympics from 1900-1920, teams of 8 pulling rope
great pull challenge — annual strength competition where competitors pull vehicles, buildings, or aircraft