pull upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

pull up (third-person singular simple present pulls up, present participle pulling up, simple past and past participle pulled up)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull,‎ up.
   1. (transitive, intransitive) To lift upwards or vertically.

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

      • 1957 April, K. Field and J. P. Wilson, “The Junctions at Methley”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:

        By the 11th, however, feeling between the rival companies had penetrated down to the "lower ranks," for on that day some over-zealous officials of the Midland caused the Lancashire & Yorkshire metals to be pulled up at Methley Junction.

   2. To pull forward.

      Pull up a bench and have a seat.

      Pull the car up a little so you don't block his driveway.

      Pull up a little so you don't block his driveway.

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

      Terrain, terrain! Pull up! Pull up!

2. (idiomatic) To fetch for display on a screen.

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

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

   Pull up to that curb slowly; you don't want to scratch that other car.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. […] As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other.

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 12:

     "Taxi," he called. And when one pulled up to the curb with screeching brakes he ordered, "The nearest restaurant."

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 217:

     The horse had galloped over the sand-ridge to the beach and there pulled up, nostrils quivering at an insult to its trained intelligence.

   • 1950 January, Arthur F. Beckenham, “With British Railways to the Far North”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:

     At every station, bundles of newspapers, boxes of fish, and other commodities had to be unloaded, and, as most of the platforms are rather short, the train usually had to pull up twice.

   • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok:

     I'm talking pedicure on our toes, toes / Trying on all our clothes, clothes / Boys blowing up our phones, phones / Drop-topping, playing our favorite CD / Pulling up to the parties / Trying to get a little bit tipsy.

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

      Synonyms: meet up, roll up, (slang) link up, (slang) reach

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

      • 2021 September 21, Tina Adkins, “September 29 is National Coffee Day! Here's some local places for the best coffee in town!”, in New Bern Sun Journal‎:

        You can always pull up to your favorite national chain such as Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts who is offering a free cup with any purchase on Wednesday or any fast food restaurant.

      • 2022 January 9, “NBA players celebrate Klay Thompson's return after more than two years”, in ESPN‎:

        Staying true to form, Thompson took to Instagram on Saturday to announce his return. Sharing a clip from "Space Jam," Thompson captioned the post, "How I'm pulling up to chase [Center] tomorrow."

      • 2022 November 13, Dave Chappelle (quoted), Sarah Grant, “'SNL': Watch Dave Chappelle on Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, and Why America Isn't Really Over Trump”, in Rolling Stone‎:

        Kanye's gotten into some scrapes before and normally when he's in trouble, I pull up immediately. This time I was like, you know what? Let me see what's gonna happen first.

4. (idiomatic) To cause (a horse) to stop when riding.
5. (idiomatic) To cause (a person) to stop.
   • 2021 February, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 16, column 3:

     "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[.]"

6. (idiomatic, British) To admonish or criticize someone for their actions.
   • 1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary:

     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.

   • 2014, April De Angelis, Wild East:

     My coursework began to suffer and my parents pulled me up on it and said we are not paying for you to get off your head every night.

   • 2021 May 5, Christian Wolmar, “Scheme available to any victims of domestic abuse”, in RAIL, number 930, page 44:

     I was pulled up by a male reader who had been a victim of domestic abuse, for using the word 'women' instead of 'victims'. He rightly pointed out that men are victims of abuse too.

7. (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).
   • 2016 May 19, Paul Vigna, “Barbaro's ill-fated run 10 years ago in the Preakness: A look back”, in PennLive‎:

     In this May 20, 2006, Barbaro is steadied[sic, "by" is missing] 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.

8. (rare) To improve; to get better; to lift one's game.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:

     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."

9. (idiomatic, Australia) To fare after a party, an illness, or a strenuous effort; to attempt to recover.

   How'd you pull up this morning?

10. (ballet) To adopt a posture with straight back and shoulders down, but ribcage and sternum lifted.

反意語

(antonym(s) of “aviation”):

• push over

派生語

• pull up on

別の表記

• pullup, pull up

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈpʊl.ʌp/

語源 1

Deverbal from pull up.

名詞

pull-up (plural pull-ups)

1. An exercise done for strengthening the arms and back in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar. Palms may be facing in any direction.
   • 1978 Physical Fitness Research Digest page 3

     DeWitt compared the average number of pullups college men can do grasping the bar with palms toward the face (supinated) and palms away from the face (pronated), and with kicking and kipping while raising the body. The subjects averaged 2.08 more pullups with the palms supinated than with the palms pronated.

   • 1983, An Electromyographic Study of the Latissimus Dorsi and Pectoralis Major During the Performance of Pronated and Supinated Pull-ups‎:
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii

     I did lots of push-ups and pull-ups, and my only regret is that I stopped doing them as a young adult when I finally got to work out in health clubs instead of my basement or garage.

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動詞

pull-up (third-person singular simple present pull-ups, present participle pull-upping, simple past and past participle pull-upped)

1. To do a pull-up or pull oneself up similarly.
   • 2012, The Young Despondents. Jason M. Burns.

     With a sleek yet muscular build, Nick out pullupped everyone during physical fitness week

   • 2010, Designation Gold Rogue Warrior. Richard Marcinko

     From there, things were easy—well, relatively easy. I stood on the rail, reached up, grasped the floor of the balcony above, fingertip pull-upped onto the lip, found another four inches of finger purchase, raised myself high enough […]

語源 2

Genericized trademark: from the Pull-Ups brand of training pants sold by Huggies.

名詞

pull-up (plural pull-ups)

1. Synonym of training pants (“undergarments worn by incontinent people, typically infants, to aid in toilet training during the transition between diapers and underpants”).

語源 3

Clipping.

名詞

pull-up (plural pull-ups)

1. (electronics) A pull-up resistor.

語源

Deverbal from pull up.

名詞

pullup (plural pullups)

1. An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.
2. (electronics) A pull-up resistor.

派生語

• pull-up resistor

参考

• chin-up
• push-up