pull-downn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpʊldaʊn/, U.S.

/ˈpʊlˌdaʊn/

Forms: see pull v. and down adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pull v., down adv.

Etymology: < pull v. + down adv., after to pull down at pull v. Phrasal verbs.

A. n.

a. An act or the action of pulling (something) down; the fact of being pulled down. Also figurative.Apparently rare before 20th cent.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation

harryingc900

harrowingc1000

wastinga1300

destructionc1330

harryc1330

wastenessa1382

wastitya1382

desolation1382

unroningnessa1400

wrackc1407

exile1436

havoc1480

hership1487

vastation1545

vastitude1545

sackc1550

population1552

waste1560

ravishment1570

riotingc1580

pull-down1588

desolating1591

degast1592

devastation1603

ravage1611

wracking1611

ravagement1766

herriment1787

carnage1848

wastage1909

enhavocking-

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > set-back

pullback1584

pull-down1588

throwback1856

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > pulling down

pull-down1588

downdraw1813

1588 R. Browne New Years Guift (1904) 34 Yet all theis were the pulldowne of Antichrist.

a1591 H. Smith Serm. 1 Pet. v. 5 ⁋5 Though he have many heart-breaks and pul-downs, and many times no countenance to shew it.

1936 E. A. Atkins & A. G. Walker Electr. Arc & Oxy-acetylene Welding (ed. 3) ix. 94 To overcome the pull-down of gravity upon the molten metal is rather a difficult task for the operator when he first tackles this kind of work.

1938 N. Streatfeild Circus is Coming viii. 129 Can't we see the pull-down? Hans says it's more exciting than the build-up.

1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 86/2 There is the first stroke, a long pull-down of the main stem; and then..the angular pair of strokes that bisect the tail.

b. Bodybuilding. An exercise in which a bar or handle is pulled down to raise a counterweight.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises

breathing1605

breather1802

arm swing1859

setting-up drill1862

grasshopper march1884

lunge1889

push-up1897

sit-up1900

pull-up1901

deep-breathing1904

bag-punching1927

press-up1928

setting-up exercise1935

pullover1936

bear crawl1937

burpee1939

knee-bend1941

leg raise1944

dip1945

uddiyana1949

squat thrust1950

lateral1954

pull-down1956

aquacise1968

step-up1973

abdominal crunch1981

power walking1982

crunch1983

gut-buster1983

stomach crunch1986

1956 Muscle Power Mar. 12/3 Lat Machine Pull Downs pack the shoulder girdle muscles with bulk and strength.

1986 Flex Feb. 83/3 I work my back with..pulldowns behind the neck.

2006 Northern News (Kirkland Lake, Ont.) (Nexis) 22 May a6 If you're pruning trees or hedges, it's almost like a lat pulldown, part of the mid- to lower back.

a. In a pipe organ: a wire which pulls down a pallet or valve when a key is pressed, thus letting air into a pipe.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pallet > parts of

pull-down1852

pallet-eye1855

1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. ii. iv. 50 The lower part..lying outside the great sound-board, is called the pull-down [Ger. Beutelstange].

1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building v. 66 Little leather bags, tied or otherwise attached to the pull-downs.

1909 G. L. Miller Recent Revol. in Organ Building (1913) ii. 15 The wires called pull-downs..are attached to a loop of wire called the pallet-eye, fastened to the moveable end of the pallet.

1961 Musical Times 102 248/2 Before the Interregnum the best English organs possessed ‘pull-downs’.

1998 N. Thistlethwaite in N. Thistlethwaite & G. Webber Cambr. Compan. Organ i. 13 The organ for St Denis (1841), in which pneumatic motors, located between key and pallet pull-down, assisted what was otherwise a complete tracker system.

b. Film. A mechanism which moves film past the aperture of a camera, projector, etc. Also: the rate at which this movement takes place.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > apparatus for projecting films > parts of

sprocket1879

projection lens1894

cut-off1906

gate1909

claw1911

take-up1915

douser1917

sound gate1931

sound head1931

pull-down1933

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera > parts of

sprocket1879

film magazine1906

gate1909

claw1911

take-up1915

pull-down1933

lens turret1951

turret1951

squeeze lens1957

1933 Photogr. Jrnl. May 205/1 The film pull-down is of the claw type actuated by two cams mounted integral with the shutter.

1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 121/2 Pull down, the intermittent mechanism used to move film in a camera, projector or printer by engaging the film perforations.

1991 Amer. Cinematographer Sept. 10/3 We have also made it very flexible so that it can copy from all normal 65mm formats. Its pulldown is 5, 8, 10 and 15 perfs, easily selectable.

B. adj. (attributive).

1. That may be pulled down (in various senses); designed to be pulled down; (also) involving the action of pulling (something) down.In quot. 1885 perhaps: designed to pull things down.

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1885 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 10 Oct. 3/2 4 ladder supports, 1 pull-down hook, pole and chain, 6 fire-buckets.

1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 20 Aug. 1/4 One of the secrets of the convention was that if Judge Hare were pulled down, his fighting strength was to go over to Matlack, but the judge was not of the pulldown sort.

1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 172/1 Electric Indicator... Pull-down Replacement, consisting of 1¼ yds. brass chain, pulley and ring.

1928 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 13 Dec. (advt.) 1925 Special 5-pass[enger] Phaeton with pull-down curtains.

1956 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 17 July 9/8 (advt.) Six-room brick (three-bedrooms), complete bath, hardwood floors, oil furnace, pull down stairway for attic storage.

1975 G. Bram & C. Downs Manuf. Technol. vii. 205 An advantage of the pull~down method is that where the cutting pressure is evenly distributed around the axis of movement clamping need not be necessary.

1993 S. McAughtry Touch & Go viii. 62 I was directed to a funeral car... It had four pull-down seats at the back.

2. Computing. Designating a list of menu options that appears beneath a selected heading or icon, esp. a list that is displayed only for as long as the user maintains the selection. Cf. pop-up adj. 3.

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1983 Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 60/2 If you want to select something from the pull-down menus you always click the button once.

1988 Los Angeles Times 18 Nov. iv. 2/3 The device, much like the mouse, also allows users to make selections from pull-down lists.

2003 Internet Advisor Nov. 59/1 To simplify things, click the Organize Favorites option in the Favorites pull-down menu and sort all your Favorites in to nested folders by category and sub-category.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pull-down
释义	pull-downn.adj. Brit. /ˈpʊldaʊn/, U.S. /ˈpʊlˌdaʊn/ Forms: see pull v. and down adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pull v., down adv. Etymology: < pull v. + down adv., after to pull down at pull v. Phrasal verbs. A. n. 1. a. An act or the action of pulling (something) down; the fact of being pulled down. Also figurative.Apparently rare before 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation harryingc900 harrowingc1000 wastinga1300 destructionc1330 harryc1330 wastenessa1382 wastitya1382 desolation1382 unroningnessa1400 wrackc1407 exile1436 havoc1480 hership1487 vastation1545 vastitude1545 sackc1550 population1552 waste1560 ravishment1570 riotingc1580 pull-down1588 desolating1591 degast1592 devastation1603 ravage1611 wracking1611 ravagement1766 herriment1787 carnage1848 wastage1909 enhavocking- the mind > mental capacity > expectation > disappointment > [noun] > set-back pullback1584 pull-down1588 throwback1856 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > [noun] > pulling down pull-down1588 downdraw1813 1588 R. Browne New Years Guift (1904) 34 Yet all theis were the pulldowne of Antichrist. a1591 H. Smith Serm. 1 Pet. v. 5 ⁋5 Though he have many heart-breaks and pul-downs, and many times no countenance to shew it. 1936 E. A. Atkins & A. G. Walker Electr. Arc & Oxy-acetylene Welding (ed. 3) ix. 94 To overcome the pull-down of gravity upon the molten metal is rather a difficult task for the operator when he first tackles this kind of work. 1938 N. Streatfeild Circus is Coming viii. 129 Can't we see the pull-down? Hans says it's more exciting than the build-up. 1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 86/2 There is the first stroke, a long pull-down of the main stem; and then..the angular pair of strokes that bisect the tail. b. Bodybuilding. An exercise in which a bar or handle is pulled down to raise a counterweight. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific exercises breathing1605 breather1802 arm swing1859 setting-up drill1862 grasshopper march1884 lunge1889 push-up1897 sit-up1900 pull-up1901 deep-breathing1904 bag-punching1927 press-up1928 setting-up exercise1935 pullover1936 bear crawl1937 burpee1939 knee-bend1941 leg raise1944 dip1945 uddiyana1949 squat thrust1950 lateral1954 pull-down1956 aquacise1968 step-up1973 abdominal crunch1981 power walking1982 crunch1983 gut-buster1983 stomach crunch1986 1956 Muscle Power Mar. 12/3 Lat Machine Pull Downs pack the shoulder girdle muscles with bulk and strength. 1986 Flex Feb. 83/3 I work my back with..pulldowns behind the neck. 2006 Northern News (Kirkland Lake, Ont.) (Nexis) 22 May a6 If you're pruning trees or hedges, it's almost like a lat pulldown, part of the mid- to lower back. 2. a. In a pipe organ: a wire which pulls down a pallet or valve when a key is pressed, thus letting air into a pipe. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pallet > parts of pull-down1852 pallet-eye1855 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. ii. iv. 50 The lower part..lying outside the great sound-board, is called the pull-down [Ger. Beutelstange]. 1881 W. E. Dickson Pract. Organ-building v. 66 Little leather bags, tied or otherwise attached to the pull-downs. 1909 G. L. Miller Recent Revol. in Organ Building (1913) ii. 15 The wires called pull-downs..are attached to a loop of wire called the pallet-eye, fastened to the moveable end of the pallet. 1961 Musical Times 102 248/2 Before the Interregnum the best English organs possessed ‘pull-downs’. 1998 N. Thistlethwaite in N. Thistlethwaite & G. Webber Cambr. Compan. Organ i. 13 The organ for St Denis (1841), in which pneumatic motors, located between key and pallet pull-down, assisted what was otherwise a complete tracker system. b. Film. A mechanism which moves film past the aperture of a camera, projector, etc. Also: the rate at which this movement takes place. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > apparatus for projecting films > parts of sprocket1879 projection lens1894 cut-off1906 gate1909 claw1911 take-up1915 douser1917 sound gate1931 sound head1931 pull-down1933 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming equipment > [noun] > camera > parts of sprocket1879 film magazine1906 gate1909 claw1911 take-up1915 pull-down1933 lens turret1951 turret1951 squeeze lens1957 1933 Photogr. Jrnl. May 205/1 The film pull-down is of the claw type actuated by two cams mounted integral with the shutter. 1959 W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 121/2 Pull down, the intermittent mechanism used to move film in a camera, projector or printer by engaging the film perforations. 1991 Amer. Cinematographer Sept. 10/3 We have also made it very flexible so that it can copy from all normal 65mm formats. Its pulldown is 5, 8, 10 and 15 perfs, easily selectable. B. adj. (attributive). 1. That may be pulled down (in various senses); designed to be pulled down; (also) involving the action of pulling (something) down.In quot. 1885 perhaps: designed to pull things down. ΚΠ 1885 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 10 Oct. 3/2 4 ladder supports, 1 pull-down hook, pole and chain, 6 fire-buckets. 1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 20 Aug. 1/4 One of the secrets of the convention was that if Judge Hare were pulled down, his fighting strength was to go over to Matlack, but the judge was not of the pulldown sort. 1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 172/1 Electric Indicator... Pull-down Replacement, consisting of 1¼ yds. brass chain, pulley and ring. 1928 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 13 Dec. (advt.) 1925 Special 5-pass[enger] Phaeton with pull-down curtains. 1956 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 17 July 9/8 (advt.) Six-room brick (three-bedrooms), complete bath, hardwood floors, oil furnace, pull down stairway for attic storage. 1975 G. Bram & C. Downs Manuf. Technol. vii. 205 An advantage of the pull~down method is that where the cutting pressure is evenly distributed around the axis of movement clamping need not be necessary. 1993 S. McAughtry Touch & Go viii. 62 I was directed to a funeral car... It had four pull-down seats at the back. 2. Computing. Designating a list of menu options that appears beneath a selected heading or icon, esp. a list that is displayed only for as long as the user maintains the selection. Cf. pop-up adj. 3. ΚΠ 1983 Austral. Personal Computer Aug. 60/2 If you want to select something from the pull-down menus you always click the button once. 1988 Los Angeles Times 18 Nov. iv. 2/3 The device, much like the mouse, also allows users to make selections from pull-down lists. 2003 Internet Advisor Nov. 59/1 To simplify things, click the Organize Favorites option in the Favorites pull-down menu and sort all your Favorites in to nested folders by category and sub-category. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1588
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