pulldown
pulldown Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Relating to a graphical user interface menu whose options appear below the title when clicked or selected.
"Please select your country of residence from the pulldown menu on the registration form."
Designed to be pulled downward for use or operation, such as a retractable bed, shade, or staircase.
"The small studio apartment features a convenient pulldown bed to maximize living space during the day."
• noun
A strength-training exercise in which a person pulls a weighted bar downward toward the chest or shoulders using an overhead pulley machine to work the back muscles.
"She finished her upper-body workout with three sets of lat pulldowns."
A graphical user interface menu whose list of options appears downward when clicked or selected.
"You can filter the search results by choosing a category from the pulldown at the top of the page."
In film and video production, the process of adjusting the frame rate when converting film footage to video, or the mechanism that advances film frame by frame in a camera or projector.
"The editor used a standard 3:2 pulldown to convert the 24-frames-per-second film into standard television video."