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— English words —

• pullback n. The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
• pullback n. (Film) The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
• pullback n. That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
• pullback n. (Architecture) The iron hook fixed to a casement to pull it shut, or to hold it partly open at a fixed point.
• pullback n. (Finance) A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak.
• pullback n. (Sports) An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
• pullback n. (Historical) A device for making a woman’s gown hang close and straight in front.
• pullback n. (Differential geometry) The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map…
• pullback n. (Category theory) The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
• pullback n. (Category theory) Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent…
• pull-back n. Alternative spelling of pullback.
• pull␣back v. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
• pull␣back v. To retreat.
• pull␣back v. (Transitive, sports) To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
• pull␣back v. (Transitive, sports) To score when the team is losing.

— English words, defined in French —

• pull␣back v. (Intransitif) Se retirer, s’enfuir, reculer.
• pull␣back v. (Transitif) Ramener.

109 English words from 15 English definitions

act after Alternative and Architecture attacking back ball between broaden bundles camera Cartesian Cartesian␣square casement Category Category␣theory causes close convergent corresponding cospan cotangent device Differential Differential␣geometry divergent drawback drawing figuratively Film Finance financial financial␣instrument fixed fixed␣point fixed␣to for from front further geometry goal goal␣line gown hang has has␣a␣pair hindrance Historical hold hold␣it holds holds␣back hook idiomatically in␣front instrument into iron limit line losing making manifolds map morphisms of␣a open other other␣than pair partly pass peak point position price pull pullback pulling reaching recede reduction result retreat scene score see shut smooth spelling sports square straight team than That the theory Transitive Used visible when which wing withdrawal Within woman

1 English word from 2 foreign definitions

retirer

5 foreign words from 2 foreign definitions

enfuir Intransitif Ramener reculer Transitif

2 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

pullbacks pull-backs

12 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ack ACK bac BAC -bac- back Back back- LLB pul pull 'ull

6 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

abl. BLL cab Cab CAB LLU

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

puckball

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

black␣plum pluckable puckballs pullbacks pull-backs

One anagram found minus a letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

black␣up

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

fullback full-back full␣back

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