push pushing | the act of applying force in order to move something away, he gave the door a hard push, the pushing is good exercise |
pull pulling | the act of pulling, applying force to move something toward or with you, the pull up the hill had him breathing harder, his strenuous pulling strained his back |
push | an effort to advance, the army made a push toward the sea |
leg-pull leg-pulling | as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true |
pull | a sustained effort, it was a long pull but we made it |
pull-up chin-up | an arm exercise performed by pulling yourself up on a horizontal bar until your chin is level with the bar |
puff drag pull | a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke), he took a puff on his pipe, he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly |
rollback push back | the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw |
bell push | a button that is pushed to ring a bell |
pull | a device used for pulling something, he grabbed the pull and opened the drawer |
pull chain | a chain (usually with a handle at the end) that is pulled in order to operate some mechanism (e.g. to flush a toilet) |
pull-in pull-up | a roadside cafe especially for lorry drivers |
pull-off rest area rest stop layby lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
pull-through | cleaning implement consisting of an oily rag attached by a cord to a weight, is pulled through the barrel of a rifle or handgun to clean it |
push-bike | a bicycle that must be pedaled |
push broom | a wide broom that is pushed ahead of the sweeper |
push button push button | an electrical switch operated by pressing, the elevator was operated by push buttons, the push beside the bed operated a buzzer at the desk |
push-button radio | a radio receiver that can be tuned by pressing buttons |
push-down storage push-down store stack | a storage device that handles data so that the next item to be retrieved is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
energy push get-up-and-go | enterprising or ambitious drive, Europeans often laugh at American energy |
absorptivity absorption factor | (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body |
sun protection factor SPF | the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun |
pull clout | special advantage or influence, the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull |
releasing hormone RH releasing factor hypothalamic releasing hormone hypothalamic releasing factor | any of several hormones produced in the hypothalamus and carried by a vein to the anterior pituitary gland where they stimulate the release of anterior pituitary hormones, each of these hormones causes the anterior pituitary to secrete a specific hormone |
gene cistron factor | (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain, it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons, it is considered a unit of heredity, genes were formerly called factors |
cognitive factor | something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result |
determinant determiner determinative determining factor causal factor | a determining or causal element or factor, education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life |
clincher decisive factor | a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively |
factor | an independent variable in statistics |
component constituent element factor ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
factor analysis | any of several methods for reducing correlational data to a smaller number of dimensions or factors, beginning with a correlation matrix a small number of components or factors are extracted that are regarded as the basic variables that account for the interrelations observed in the data |
Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire PF | a selfeport personality inventory developed by Raymond B. Cattell to measure the personality dimensions that emerged from his factor analysis of a wide range of traits |
push-down list push-down stack stack | a list in which the next item to be removed is the item most recently stored (LIFO) |
push-down queue | a queue in which the last item to go in is the first item to come out (LIFO) |
clincher determiner determining factor | an argument that is conclusive |
factor | anything that contributes causally to a result, a number of factors determined the outcome |
agent factor broker | a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission |
pull | the force used in pulling, the pull of the moon, the pull of the current |
push thrust | the force used in pushing, the push of the water on the walls of the tank, the thrust of the jet engines |
cost-pull inflation | inflation caused by an increase in the costs of production |
demand-pull inflation | inflation caused by an increase in demand or in the supply of money |
coefficient of reflection reflection factor reflectance reflectivity | the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface |
factor | any of the numbers (or symbols) that form a product when multiplied together |
conversion factor | factor by which a quantity that is expressed in one set of units must be multiplied in order to convert it into another set of units |
factor of proportionality constant of proportionality | the constant value of the ratio of two proportional quantities x and y, usually written y kx, where k is the factor of proportionality |
prime factor | the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity |
divisor factor | one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer, what are the factors of ? |
multiplier multiplier factor | the number by which a multiplicand is multiplied |
scale factor | a number used as a multiplier in scaling |
time-scale factor | the ratio of the simulation time to the time of the real process |