What's the difference between barrow and pull?

Barrow


Definition:

  • (n.) A support having handles, and with or without a wheel, on which heavy or bulky things can be transported by hand. See Handbarrow, and Wheelbarrow.
  • (n.) A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.
  • (n.) A hog, esp. a male hog castrated.
  • (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
  • (n.) A heap of rubbish, attle, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By a comparison with the published infrared spectra of the water in model systems [Mohr, S.C., Wilk, W.D., & Barrow, G.M.
  • (2) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.
  • (3) The other was David York, branch secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and an organiser of the anti-academy protest in Barrow-in-Furness.
  • (4) Barrows were fed two sources of phosphorus with increasing levels of sodium.
  • (5) 3, barrows fitted with an ileal T-cannula were used in a 4 X 4 Latin square design.
  • (6) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
  • (7) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
  • (8) Between 1972 and 1990, 159 pediatric patients were admitted to the Barrow Neurological Institute with acute traumatic spinal cord or vertebral column injuries.
  • (9) In conclusion, reciprocal cross differences detected for BF and LMA in barrows were established before or at fertilization and seemed to be Y-linked.
  • (10) The response to rpST in lean tissue growth rate from 60 to 100 kg was highest in fatter animals (Duroc, barrows), whereas from 100 to 140 kg, response in lean tissue growth rate to rpST was highest in leaner animals (Pietrain, F1, gilts).
  • (11) Sixteen barrows and 16 gilts of average liveweight 40 kg were fed on diets containing 0, 10, 20 or 30% copra cake.
  • (12) Barrows sired by D boars reared in a D postfertilization environment (ET) had 6.2 cm2 greater LMA and 4.1 mm less BF (P less than .05) than barrows sired by L boars gestated and reared by D dams (non-ET).
  • (13) Holding a Qur’an and looking solemn, Barrow was sworn in at the Gambian embassy in Dakar, where he has spent the past few days, and delivered his inaugural speech as president.
  • (14) The administration of pST resulted in an increase in muscle fiber size for all three fiber types in all three sexes, but these changes were of greater magnitude in barrows (31.8%) and gilts (27.8%) than in boars (9.3%).
  • (15) If fabrics break down then [microfibers] are another pathway for those [chemicals into the environment].” Those fighting the use of microbeads in beauty products are finding more traction, Barrows says, because phasing them out is straightforward.
  • (16) The metabolism of 19-nortestosterone was investigated in a miniature non-castrated male pig (boar), in a castrated pig (barrow) and in a female pig (sow).
  • (17) Since then, several of you have tipped us a wink in the direction of one such man in black who actually did find the net - in a third division game between Barrow AFC and Plymouth Argyle back on November 9 1968.
  • (18) Boars at 105 kg had 1.3 and 1.7% more moisture in the BR and ST, respectively, than barrows.
  • (19) Twelve blood serum components were determined on 78 barrows and 66 gilts, serially slaughtered at six age groups, starting at 69 d, at 2-wk intervals.
  • (20) When the new energy secretary, Ed Davey , went to Barrow to formally open Walney, he was told by some local residents that there was a strong feeling the people of Barrow had missed out on jobs, opportunities and social funding.

Pull


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
  • (v. t.) To draw apart; to tear; to rend.
  • (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 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 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.
  • (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.) The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move something by drawing toward one.
  • (n.) A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
  • (n.) A pluck; loss or violence suffered.
  • (n.) A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
  • (n.) The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
  • (n.) The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
  • (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 kind of stroke by which a leg ball is sent to the off side, or an off ball to the side.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
  • (2) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (3) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
  • (4) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
  • (5) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
  • (6) The effect of 5 beta- and 5 alpha-reduced progestins on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) release was examined using either an in vitro superfusion or an in vivo push-pull perfusion (PPP) technique.
  • (7) The person responsible for pulling the trigger was equally likely to be a friend, a family member, or the victim.
  • (8) The cull in 2013 required a policing effort costing millions of pounds and pulling in officers from many different forces.
  • (9) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
  • (10) Harvest the bulbs once they reach 7-8cm across; if you cut them off at ground level rather than pulling the whole plant up, the roots should produce a second crop of feathery shoots.
  • (11) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
  • (12) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
  • (13) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (14) A Zliten hospital spokesman told Associated Press that 60 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, though Fozi Awnais, from the health ministry in Tripoli, later said 47 people had died and 118 more were injured.
  • (15) "The rise in those who are self-employed is good news, but the reality is that those who have turned to freelance work in order to pull themselves out of unemployment and those who have decided to work for themselves face a challenging tax maze that could land them in hot water should they get it wrong," says Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation at the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants.
  • (16) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
  • (17) The comedian Daniel O’Reilly, who gives laddish advice on how to “pull birds” under the guise of a deliberately provocative character in the ITV2 series, has proved controversial for lines such as “Just show her your penis.
  • (18) The second national multiplex was handed to 4 Digital, but was handed back after Channel 4 pulled out.
  • (19) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
  • (20) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.

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