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Meaning of "pull down" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PULL DOWN

pull down play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PULL DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pull down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES PULL DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pulldown

Pulldown may refer to: ▪ Pulldown, a type of casting defect ▪ Pull-down resistor. See Pull-up resistor ▪ Pull-down assay, a biochemical protein extraction technique ▪ Pull-down menu. See Menu...

Definition of pull down in the English dictionary

The definition of pull down in the dictionary is to destroy or demolish.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PULL DOWN

pull a fast one
pull a fastie
pull about
pull apart
pull back
pull cord
pull in
pull off
pull on
pull one´s punches
pull one´s socks up
pull one´s weight
pull oneself together
pull out
pull out all the stops
pull over
pull rank
pull someone´s leg
pull strings
pull the plug on

WORDS THAT END LIKE PULL DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of pull down in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pull down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PULL DOWN

Find out the translation of pull down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pull down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pull down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

摧毁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tirar abajo
570 millions of speakers

English

pull down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे खींच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يَهْدِمُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сносить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

demolir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চূর্ণ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

démolir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tarik ke bawah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

herunterziehen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

取り壊す
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

헐다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

narik mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kéo đổ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கீழே இழு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खाली खेचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aşağı çek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

demolire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rozebrać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зносити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a dărâma
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ρίχνω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

trek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dra ner
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rive
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pull down

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PULL DOWN»

The term «pull down» is quite widely used and occupies the 31.377 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PULL DOWN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pull down

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4 QUOTES WITH «PULL DOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pull down.
1
Adam Clarke
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.
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Aaron Levie
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
3
Michelle Malkin
Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.
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Tom Peters
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PULL DOWN»

Discover the use of pull down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pull down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pull Down the Night
This year at Suburban High School is just as troubling as the last.
Nathan Kotecki, 2013
2
The Book of JavaScript: A Practical Guide to Interactive Web ...
JavaScript can read and set pull-down menus and scrollable lists as it does radio buttons, with two main differences. First, while radio buttons have a checked property, pull-down menus and scrollable lists have a comparable property called ...
Thau, 2007
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture
Table 1.6 lists the operation of the pull-down and pull-up networks and the state of the output, demonstrating that the gate does function as a NAND. For example, when A 1 and B 0, N1 is ON, but N2 is OFF, blocking the path from Y to GND.
David Harris, Sarah Harris, 2010
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Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smart Cards
a a- b o- Pull-up network -O q Pull-down network GND Figure 2.7. Symbol of an NMOS transis- Figure2.8. Transistor circuit of a completer (above) and a PMOS transistor (below). mentary CMOS NAND cell.
Stefan Mangard, Elisabeth Oswald, Thomas Popp, 2008
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ESD: Circuits and Devices
n-channel MOSFETs are sensitive to positive-polarity ESD events. n-channel MOSFET pull-down elements undergo MOSFET snapback followed by MOSFET second breakdown during HBM, MM, and TLP ESD events, leading to OCD failure.
Steven H. Voldman, 2006
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Pro Tools LE and M-Powered: The Complete Guide
Audio Pull Down Factors and QuickTime Movies Audio 'pulls' can be used to adjust the speed of Pro Tools' audio playback to make sure that it always matches the picture during the post-production process. As themanualexplains:' DV Toolkit ...
Mike Collins, 2006
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The Oxford Book of American Poetry
Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down!
David Lehman, 2006
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Molecular Biomethods Handbook
Methods that can be routinely used to confirm direct protein–protein interactions include affinity pull-down assays using purified proteins described below, as well as protein overlay assays (6). 3.1.2. Affinity Pull-Down Methods Affinity ...
John M. Walker, Ralph Rapley, 2008
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PC Mag
imon and Shuster's Webster's New World Writer and PFS:Professi0nal Write are both brand-new, easy to use, beautiful to look at, and have a single command line with pull-down menus at their core. Do these programs prefigure the shape of ...
10
Digital Design and Fabrication
Precharge/evaluation collisions occur when the precharge transistor has not fully turned off prior to evaluation or when the pull-down paths have not been disconnected from the ground prior to initiation of precharge. As the pull-down paths are ...
Vojin G. Oklobdzija, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PULL DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pull down is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tibetan protesters storm Chinese consulate in Sydney, pull down flag
Protesters have been arrested and charged after they stormed the Chinese consulate in Sydney, with one scaling a pole to pull down the Chinese flag. A group ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
2
Military Fuel Tanker Delays Pull Down Boeing's 2Q Earnings
The Chicago-based company on Wednesday posted a $1.11 billion net profit, down from $1.65 billion during the same period last year. The bulk of that drop is ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
3
Iran nuclear deal likely to pull down oil prices long term
After signing a deal to curb its nuclear ambitions in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, common sense suggests oil-rich Iran will flood the market with ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
4
Time to follow Gen. Buckner's example and pull down that …
By Thomas E. RicksThomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. He can be reached at ... «Foreign Policy, Jun 15»
5
Pull down the symbol of oppression
Many years ago, Winston Churchill said you could always depend upon Americans to do the right thing – after they tried everything else. Today we can say ... «The News Journal, Jun 15»
6
Charleston Church Shooting Renews Calls to Pull Down
The alleged racially motivated hate crime has renewed calls for officials to pull down that Confederate battle flag, setting the stage for the resumption of an ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
7
LGBT youth action has helped pull down 'architecture of homophobia'
Last weekend will go down in Irish history. We did far more than just extend marriage to same sex couples – we changed forever what it means to grow up ... «Irish Times, May 15»
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Hardwick man to pull down treehouse because he had no planning …
A father-of-three has been ordered to pull down his children's tree house by .... notice earlier this month and will have to tear it down or face prosecution. «Daily Mail, May 15»
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Court Reverses Ruling That Ordered Google to Pull Down YouTube …
The court removed an injunction that required Google to take down the video, and ... from her performance entitled her to demand that YouTube pull it down. «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
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Oakland schools pull down $5 million grant for computer science …
OAKLAND -- McClymonds and Oakland Technical high schools will share a $5 million grant over five years to grow computer science and engineering programs ... «Contra Costa Times, May 15»

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