单词 | to pull together |
释义 | > as lemmasto pull together to pull together 1. intransitive. To act in unison; to work in harmony; to cooperate. Also: to agree, get on well together. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > co-operation > co-operate [verb (intransitive)] conjoin1532 conspirea1538 concurc1550 co-operate1604 coadjute1612 coacta1616 to jump in quilla1616 co-operate1616 co-opere1663 to pull together1772 rally1792 to row in1861 collaborate1871 to play ball (with)1903 to play along1929 play1937 1772 D. Garrick Irish Widow i. i. 4 Get you gone, with your love and reason, they seldom pull together now-a-days. 1799 Hist. in Ann. Reg. 302/2 In the marine language of admiral Mitchel, they pulled heartily together. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner i. 133 Ye pulled together with one mind. 1830 F. Marryat King's Own I. xiii. 187 It was a ship's company which pulled every way, as the saying is, when there was nothing to demand union: but let..danger appear..then they all pulled together. 1884 Law Times Rep. 14 June 467/2 Where tenants for life and trustees did not pull together, sales could not in such cases be effected. 1935 R. A. Knox Barchester Pilgrimage vi. 246 The great thing about a place like Barchester was that the boys learned to pull together. 1996 Mail on Sunday 28 Apr. 39/4 The richly deserved reputation Londoners have for pulling together in times of adversity. 2. transitive. a. To bring (a horse) in hand; = collect v. 4. Now rare or merged in sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > bring completely in hand collect1833 to pull together1864 1864 W. Campbell My Indian Jrnl. xviii. 327 You cannot take a drop of six or seven feet..at racing speed; you must pull your horse together, or smash him. 1898 ‘M. Ross’ & E. O. Somerville Silver Fox v She was gone in an instant, and, before Glasgow had pulled his horse together, Slaney and Isabella were charging the place. 1912 Times 16 Mar. 14/1 Mason on Herculean lost an iron, but he pulled his horse together with extraordinary skill and his light weight enabled him to win. b. reflexive. To recover control of oneself or one's emotions; to collect oneself; to rally; (also) to gather one's faculties or resources with an effort. Also (occasionally) with non-reflexive object. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > restoration of a person > [verb (transitive)] > to one's normal condition to pull together1868 1868 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail 29 May 1/7 I still felt deucedly muzzy, for Commissary rum..is hard stuff to get sober off; yet I managed to pull myself together enough to know where I was. 1872 Punch 29 June 269/1 The process of pulling myself together and picking myself up. 1884 Chicago Herald in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. xcvi. 349 It [sc. the Republic] can pull itself together in moments of danger. 1906 W. S. Maugham Bishop's Apron viii. 132 Now come and have tea... I know it'll pull you together. 1958 B. L. Montgomery Mem. (1961) 150 I decided that the Eighth Army needed a halt during which it could pull itself together and get ready for the final ‘jump’ to Tripoli. 1986 P. Theroux O-zone xv. 175 I sometimes feel he's cracking up. This might pull him together. 2005 Apex Sci. Fiction & Horror Digest Fall 54 Oh, stop your puling! Pull yourself together. 3. transitive. To bring together or gather in one place, to assemble, esp. from disparate sources; (also) to make more complete or coherent, to knit together. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] somnec825 heapc900 gathera975 samc1000 to set togetherc1275 fang1340 assemblec1374 recueilc1380 drawa1393 to draw togethera1398 semblea1400 congatherc1400 congregatec1400 to take together1490 recollect1513 to gather togetherc1515 to get together1523 congesta1552 confer1552 collect1573 ingatherc1575 ramass1586 upgather1590 to muster upa1593 accrue1594 musterc1595 compone1613 herd1615 contract1620 recoil1632 comporta1641 rally1643 rendezvous1670 purse1809 adduct1824 to round up1873 reeve1876 to pull together1925 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > join closely, intimately, or permanently tiec1000 limea1225 knit1340 sold1388 marryc1450 compact1530 spear?1548 solder1589 cementc1604 ferruminate1623 bewed1674 weld1802 wed1818 Siamese1830 intermarry1863 to pull together1925 mate1959 1894 W. Archer in World 15 Aug. 25/1 The last act wants a great deal of working-up and pulling together.] 1925 J. G. Bruce in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 iii. 63 If the first party of porters could be pulled together again in twenty-four hours' time, they were then to be utilized to keep Camp III supplied from Camp II. 1952 Listener 31 Jan. 189/1 He has tried to pull together all that has been said and written about the political struggle between the western allies and Moscow. 1978 Amer. Notes & Queries 16 142/1 A corpus of paintings not pulled together in any previous work. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Nov. iii. 8/2 [He] acted as a Sherpa on the deal, pulling together documents and sending e-mail messages. < as lemmas |
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