English Dictionary

pull up

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically. / To pull forward. / (intransitive, aviation) To raise the nose of an aircraft. / (idiomatic) To fetch for display on a screen.

He pulled up the weeds in the garden.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.

I pull up the lever when I want to make my car go into first gear.

意味（2）

To pull forward.

Pull up a bench and have a seat.

意味（3）

(intransitive, aviation) To raise the nose of an aircraft.

Terrain ahead! Pull up!

意味（4）

(idiomatic) To fetch for display on a screen.

Pull up that website for me; it sounds quite interesting.

意味（5）

(idiomatic, especially of a vehicle) To arrive at a halt; to approach and stop at a particular point.

意味（6）

(by extension, slang, originally African-American Vernacular) To travel somewhere, especially to meet someone else; to come to.

I'm pulling up to the club tonight, want to join?

意味（7）

(idiomatic) To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.

意味（8）

(idiomatic) To cause (a person) to stop.

People pull me up in the street to ask if I have room for their son, daughter, sister or cousin to come down to go to school[.]

意味（9）

(idiomatic, Britain) To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.

At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams...' She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped⁠—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.

意味（10）

(transitive, horse racing) To intentionally take a racehorse out of a race, usually as a result of the horse's tiredness or concerns of potential injury (in reference to the act of pulling up the reins).

In this May 20, 2006, Barbaro is steadied a track worker as jockey Edgar Prado looks on after he pulled up the horse with a fractured right rear leg during the 131st running of the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

意味（11）

(rare) To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.

A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, Have to get something better this trip, Edmund. Got to pull up somehow or buyers will be turnin' us down. Sales been gettin' worse and worse these last years.