What's the difference between pull and recoil?

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.

Recoil


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
  • (v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
  • (v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
  • (v. t.) To draw or go back.
  • (n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
  • (n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.
  • (n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The linear flow accelerator failed to prevent, but did delay, catheter tip recoil in proportion to the prolongation of contrast medium injection time.
  • (2) This paper reviews what is known of the decline in measurements of lung function, and focuses on reduced elastic recoil as a key to these changes.
  • (3) We conclude that the alveolar attachments and elastic recoil are related to the size and function of the small airways.
  • (4) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
  • (5) The functional significance of these corrugations remains unknown, but, they could be important in equalizing tension in the tracheo-bronchial tree during inspiration, as well as in providing elastic recoil during expiration.
  • (6) Determining factors of the flow reduction factors of the flow reduction in addition to the decreased VC were: 1) low peripheral airway conductance in four patients; 2) loss of elastic recoil in three patients; 3) combination of 1) and 2) in two patients.
  • (7) Torsional deformation, defined as twisting about the left ventricular long axis of the apical region with respect to the base, was characterized in terms of the rate and amplitude of systolic torsion and the rate of diastolic recoil by means of an internal reference system.
  • (8) In L-starts the body was bent into an L or U shape and a recoil turn normally accompanied acceleration.
  • (9) Elastic recoil of the vessel wall is a common cause of failure of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in renal arteries.
  • (10) The changes in lung volume and compliance are explained in terms of changes in the shape of the static recoil pressure characteristics of the diseased lungs after treatment.
  • (11) The difference in elastic recoil between air- and saline-filled lungs was altered in bleomycin-treated rats when elastic recoil was compared at 35% of predicted TLC or at 80% of observed TLC.
  • (12) Static pressure-volume curves with air showed decreased recoil and improved air retention on deflation in fetal rabbits 25.5-27.5 days injected with pilocarpine.
  • (13) In Group II static elastic recoil was measured also.
  • (14) The other 5 all had evidence of interstitial damage; 3 of them had progressive increase in the degree of airway obstruction, and one had progressive loss of elastic recoil.
  • (15) In response to an ATP current pulse (intensity, 5-85 nA; duration, 0.5-10 s), the myosin-coated needle moved for a distance and eventually stopped, indicating reformation of rigor actin-myosin linkages to prevent elastic recoil of the bent needle.
  • (16) We also assessed the elastic recoil following H inhalation (5A).
  • (17) But she railed against commercial success, and at the first sniff of a big hit – Paper Planes , which sampled the Clash's Straight To Hell, and made the US and UK top 20 – she recoiled.
  • (18) In none of the observed cases any reaction indicating recoil of the carrier of the antibiotic was noticed.
  • (19) Some subjects exhibited loss of lung elastic recoil and diminished carbon monoxide diffusing capacity suggestive of developing emphysema.
  • (20) This reduced EELV during exercise aids inspiration by optimizing diaphragmatic length and permitting elastic recoil of the chest wall.

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