pull-down
That can be pulled down (lowered).
Adjective
- That can be pulled down (lowered).
- The new seating in the second-class open coach; note the newspaper racks and the pull-down tables on the seat-backs. - 1964 July, Brian Haresnape, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 4, photo...
Origin
Etymology tree English pull downdeverb. English pull-down Deverbal from pull down.
Forms
Noun
- A dynamic menu; a list of options in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it.
- A technique by which a protein is brought down in a test tube by another.
- The conversion of video footage to a higher frame rate by duplicating certain frames.
- When a TV monitor is in shot, and the film is transferred to video through the normal 2:3 pulldown there will be a strobing effect where the film and video frame rates clash. - 2013, David Mellor, Sound Person's Guide...
- Dodder (plant of genus Cuscuta).
- A trick done with rings where each ring is pulled down over the head instead of being caught and held in the hand.
- Another classic trick with rings is the 'pull-down'. This can only be done with rings that fit easily over your head. - 1994, Haggis McLeod, KNOW THE GAME - JUGGLING, →ISBN:
- 2004, Luke Holman, Hardest, most tech trick on the net, May 12 2004 via Google Groups For example, the 11 ring pulldown didn't stick in my head because I don't really juggle rings, and I have no conception of how hard...
- An exercise mostly performed by pulling cables, a bar, or handles from a machine situated diagonally to the front top of the sportsman and targetting the rear muscles.