What's the difference between pull and touse?

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.

Touse


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Touze
  • (n.) A pulling; a disturbance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tumor consists of an adult teratoma, circuscribed teratocarcinoma, endodermal sinus-tumor-like, choriocarcinomatous and germinoma (pinealoma) tous parts.
  • (2) Ils concernent tous des hausses de températures d’ici 2100.
  • (3) Nous sommes tous Français (We are all French).” By contrast, Hollande said that Trump’s excesses “make you want to retch” .
  • (4) Under a sea of fluttering pink and blue flags, the Manif Pour Tous (Demo for all) movement's complaints were eclectic and apocalyptic – with a dash of paranoia and conspiracy thrown in for good measure.
  • (5) Extremely high sensitivity to small changes in ultrasonic attenuation was achieved with a transmission oscillator ultrasonic spectrometer (TOUS).
  • (6) Jean-Claude Nkulikiyimfura, le directeur du village, dit : « Ce projet a probablement battu tous les records : en moins d’un an, il était prêt.
  • (7) It showed Cohn-Bendit smiling manically, as Dennis the Menace, with a caption: “Nous sommes tous les juifs allemands”.
  • (8) While the debate on same-sex marriage is heating up in France , supporters of the mariage pour tous (marriage for all) movement have just received an accolade from Valérie Trierweiler, France's first lady.
  • (9) Photograph: John Brunton Jean Nouvel’s stunning building for the Arab World Institute already stands out on the Paris skyline, and now boasts what may be the city’s biggest Nous Sommes Tous Charlie sign.
  • (10) L'Esprit de l'Info (@lespritinfo) Bonjour à tous !
  • (11) March 17, 2015 Serge Aurier (@Serge_aurier) Tous mes coéquipiers et moi-même, pour que l’image de Paris et de la France s’impose dans le football européen.
  • (12) Samir Nasri Official (@SamNasri19) Merci a tous pour vos messages je serai indisponible pour 8 semaines je vous tiens au courant de l'evolution de la blessure January 13, 2014 "Thank you everyone for your kind words and overwhelming support, I suppose its kind of good news that I will be out around 8 weeks," he tweeted.
  • (13) Experience in the treatment of these two cases confirms that the role of Psychomotor Education in the treatment of myopathy cases is essentially that of teaching the child to be aware of and responsible for its own movements as the disease progresses, while showing it how touse all its available sensomotorial instruments to counteract its muscular inadequacies which progressively damage the child's body image.
  • (14) A histochemical study of ENL lesions was performed on skin biopsies from 14 leproma-tous patients.
  • (15) De Gaulle was supposed to have written his rallying call to the nation, " A tous les Français ", in there.
  • (16) The prime minister, Manuel Valls, echoed that call at the time by telling Radio Monte Carlo: “The conditions for Karim Benzema to return to the France team have not been met at the moment.” Karim Benzema (@Benzema) Malheureusement pour moi et pour tous ceux qui m'ont toujours soutenu et supporté.
  • (17) Two anatomical patterns have been described: parenchyma tous and phlebectatic.
  • (18) Serge Aurier (@Serge_aurier) Je demande pardon à M.Kuipers, à ses assistants ainsi qu’à tous les arbitres pour ma réaction après le match à Chelsea.

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