More meanings / definitions of have pull; have influence or words, sentences containing have pull; have influence?
Pull (v. t.): To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch.
Pull (n.): A knob, handle, or lever, etc., by which anything is pulled; as, a drawer pull; a bell pull.
Pull (v. t.): To move or operate by the motion of drawing towards one; as, to pull a bell; to pull an oar.
Pull (n.): Something in one's favor in a comparison or a contest; an advantage; means of influencing; as, in weights the favorite had the pull.
Pull (v. i.): To exert one's self in an act or motion of drawing or hauling; to tug; as, to pull at a rope.
Trice (v. t.): To pull; to haul; to drag; to pull away.
Pull (v. t.): To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8.
Pull (n.): A contest; a struggle; as, a wrestling pull.
Demolish (v. t.): To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
Pull (n.): The act of drinking; as, to take a pull at the beer, or the mug.
Pull (n.): The act of rowing; as, a pull on the river.
Twitch (n.): The act of twitching; a pull with a jerk; a short, sudden, quick pull; as, a twitch by the sleeve.
Hitch (n.): A sudden movement or pull; a pull up; as, the sailor gave his trousers a hitch.
Influence (n.): Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers,of the stars over affairs.
Pluck (v. t.): Especially, to pull with sudden force or effort, or to pull off or out from something, with a twitch; to twitch; also, to gather, to pick; as, to pluck feathers from a fowl; to pluck hair or wool from a skin; to pluck grapes.
Induce (v. t.): To lead on; to influence; to prevail on; to incite; to move by persuasion or influence.
Earwig (v. t.): To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.
Impulsion (n.): Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.
Insinuation (n.): The act of gaining favor, affection, or influence, by gentle or artful means; -- formerly used in a good sense, as of friendly influence or interposition.
Overinfluence (v. t.): To influence in an excessive degree; to have undue influence over.
Influence (n.): Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.
Predominate (v. i.): To be superior in number, strength, influence, or authority; to have controlling power or influence; to prevail; to rule; to have the mastery; as, love predominated in her heart.
Fascination (n.): The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.
Bowse (v. i.): To pull or haul; as, to bowse upon a tack; to bowse away, i. e., to pull all together.
Inspiration (n.): The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
Emancipate (v. t.): To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
Influence (v. t.): To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to move; to persuade; to induce.
Star (n.): A planet supposed to influence one's destiny; (usually pl.) a configuration of the planets, supposed to influence fortune.
Moonstruck (a.): Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.
Sympathy (n.): The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
