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Princeton's WordNet

  1. withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move backverb

    pull back or move away or backward

    "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"

  2. retract, pull back, draw backverb

    use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

  3. pull backverb

    move to a rearward position; pull towards the back

    "Pull back your arms!"

  4. pull back, drawverb

    stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)

    "The archers were drawing their bows"

  5. retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdrawverb

    make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity

    "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns"

Wiktionary

  1. pull backverb

    To pull in a backwards direction

  2. pull backverb

    To retreat

  3. pull backverb

    To retract

  4. pull backverb

    to pull in order to reveal something underneath or behind.

  5. pull backverb

    To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.

  6. pull backverb

    To score when the team is losing.

Wikipedia

  1. pull back

    In mathematics, a pullback is either of two different, but related processes: precomposition and fiber-product. Its dual is a pushforward.

ChatGPT

  1. pull back

    In mathematics, a pullback is a concept that describes the inverse image or pre-image of a function. In other words, it is a way to map objects and morphisms in one category back to objects and morphisms in another category. Typically used in categories such as algebraic geometry, topology, and differential geometry, the pullback offers a way to understand the relationship between different mathematical structures by tracing their origins or transformations back to another structure or function. For example, in mathematics, a pullback might refer to the inverse of a geometric transformation. It is a fundamental concept in algebraic topology and differential geometry to describe the behaviour of functions, vector fields, or forms under pre-images. In differential geometry and differential topology, the pullback is a natural way to relate functions, differential forms, and other objects on the manifold to a smaller subspace or submanifold. The specific mathematics surrounding the pullback can be quite complex and abstract, depending on the field and the nature of the functions or structures being considered.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pull back in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pull back in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of pull back in a Sentence

  1. Jim Gilmore:

    We have to have a third way, all the foreign policy discussion in the U.S. is centered around the two extremes. The neocons on one side that want to be militarily engaged very quickly and every often. Then you have the neo-isolationists on the other side (who want to) pull back and not intervene.

  2. Zhang Qi:

    I think it's normal, there's been some recent data releases including inflation, and there's also the Vanke situation which is naturally impacting the market a bit, you've also seen banking shares do relatively well recently, so it's not a surprise to see a bit of a pull back.

  3. Houston Astros:

    The last thing I wanted to do was build up, then pull back, and then build up again.

  4. Matt Bliss:

    Right now, I want to see what the interest is in the educational event and how It turns out— if it’s something we want to continue doing, or if we need to pull back on that and think of something else we can do that will have the same impact.

  5. Pinkett Smith:

    Maybe it's time we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities, and we make programs for ourselves that acknowledge us in ways that we see fit, that are just as good as the so-called mainstream.


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