英和和英

動詞

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

1. (literally, transitive) To pull something, so that it comes inside.

   After falling out of the boat, the crew pulled him in.

2. (idiomatic, intransitive, of a vehicle または driver) To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop; to park by driving frontways into a parking spot.

   A car just pulled in our driveway.

3. (idiomatic, intransitive, of a train または bus) To approach a station; to arrive at a station.

   Quick! The train's pulling in.

4. (idiomatic, transitive) To arrest someone; to take someone to a police station because they may have done something.

   She was pulled in for questioning.

5. (idiomatic, transitive) To earn [money].

   He pulls in a lot of money.

6. (idiomatic, nautical, transitive) To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope.

   pull in the main sheet

派生語

• pull in one's horns

アナグラム

• nullip

参照

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes