"wirepull" meaning in English

See wirepull in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: wirepulls [present, singular, third-person], wirepulling [participle, present], wirepulled [participle, past], wirepulled [past]
Etymology: From wire + pull; see wirepuller. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|wire|pull}} wire + pull Head templates: {{en-verb}} wirepull (third-person singular simple present wirepulls, present participle wirepulling, simple past and past participle wirepulled)
  1. (ambitransitive) To exert an influence on (others) that is felt but not seen. Tags: ambitransitive
    Sense id: en-wirepull-en-verb-K3fUkX8s Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wire",
        "3": "pull"
      },
      "expansion": "wire + pull",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wire + pull; see wirepuller.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wirepulls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wirepulling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wirepulled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wirepulled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wirepull (third-person singular simple present wirepulls, present participle wirepulling, simple past and past participle wirepulled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 86-90, page 5:",
          "text": "These basic provisions of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam do not allow the United States to wirepull its lackeys to rig up the so-called Republic of Vietnam.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exert an influence on (others) that is felt but not seen."
      ],
      "id": "en-wirepull-en-verb-K3fUkX8s",
      "links": [
        [
          "exert",
          "exert"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To exert an influence on (others) that is felt but not seen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wirepull"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wire",
        "3": "pull"
      },
      "expansion": "wire + pull",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wire + pull; see wirepuller.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wirepulls",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wirepulling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wirepulled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wirepulled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "wirepull (third-person singular simple present wirepulls, present participle wirepulling, simple past and past participle wirepulled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 86-90, page 5:",
          "text": "These basic provisions of the 1954 Geneva agreements on Vietnam do not allow the United States to wirepull its lackeys to rig up the so-called Republic of Vietnam.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To exert an influence on (others) that is felt but not seen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exert",
          "exert"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ambitransitive) To exert an influence on (others) that is felt but not seen."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ambitransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wirepull"
}

Download raw JSONL data for wirepull meaning in English (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (ce0be54 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.