Pull upとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

pull up (三人称単数 現在形 pulls up, 現在分詞 pulling up, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

   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 ahead! 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, (スラング) link up, (スラング) 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^[1]:

        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^[2]:

        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^[3]:

        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, Britain) 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^[4]:

     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.

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?

反意語

(aviation):

• push over

派生語

• pull up on

語源

From the verb phrase pull up.

名詞

pullup (複数形 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.

派生語

• pullup resistor

参考

• chin-up
• push-up
• pull up (verb)