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  1.                 From en.wiktionary.org:
                    

    [pull down]

    ** English

    [lang=en]

    *** Alternative forms

    - [en]

    *** Etymology

    [en].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [en]

    *** Noun

    [~]

    1. [en] A dynamic menu ; a list of option s in a computer application which appears below a heading when it is selected, and remains only as long as the user needs it. 2. [en] A technique by which a protein is brought down in a test tube by another . 3. [en] The conversion of video footage to a higher frame rate by duplicating certain frame s. 4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2013 | author=David Mellor | title=Sound Person's Guide to Video | page=216 |passage=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.}}

    1. [en] [en] Dodder (plant of genus [Cuscuta] ). 2. [en] A trick done with ring s where each ring is pulled down over the head instead of being caught and held in the hand. 3. * [en] 4. * 2004 , Luke Holman, Hardest, most tech trick on the net (see http://groups.google.com/group/rec.juggling/browse_thread/thread/a6cf29c2f2597e96/db89d143ac6eb589?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22+ring+pulldown%22#db89d143ac6eb589) , May 12 2004 via Google Groups 5. *: 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 it is. 6. [en] An exercise mostly performed by pulling cable s, a bar , or handle s from a machine situated diagonally to the front top of the sportsman and targetting the rear muscle s.

    **** Derived terms

    - lat pulldown - [en]

    **** Translations

    [dodder] [exercise]

    - Danish: [da] - Finnish: [fi] - German: [de] - Swedish: [sv] [trans-bottom]

    **** See also

    - [en] - [en]

    *** Adjective

    [-]

    1. That can be pulled down (lowered). 2. * [en]