Pullback

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of pulling back, especially an orderly troop withdrawal.
  • n. A device for holding or drawing back: a pullback for heavy draperies.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal
  • n. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
  • n. The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
  • n. A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
  • n. Given a pair of morphisms and with a common codomain, Z, their pullback is a pair of morphisms and as well as their common domain, P, such that the equation is satisfied, and for which there is the universal property that for any other object Q for which there are also morphisms , ; there is a unique morphism such that and .
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
  • n. The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it party open at a fixed point.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which keeps one back or restrains; a drawback.
  • n. In modern costume for women, a contrivance by which the folds of the skirt behind were held together closely, so that the skirt in front was drawn tightly and hung straight down. It was in fashion about 1885.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
  • v. move to a rearward position; pull towards the back
  • v. stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
  • v. pull back or move away or backward
  • v. make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  • n. (military) the act of pulling back (especially an orderly withdrawal of troops)
  • n. a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back
    • Antonym
    pushout   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    pull    draw    force    stretch    withdrawal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drawback    hindrance   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    fullback   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    free-body    mytop    risk    twodimensional    kinesiology   
     
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