Pull over

pull over & pulls over pulling over pulled over pulled over

1. pull... over p.v. When you are driving and then move your vehicle to the side of the road, reduce your speed, and then stop, youpull over orpull your vehicleover.

/ pulled over to fix a flat tire. We're lost.

Let'spull the carover and ask someone for directions.

2. pull... over p.v. When you are driving and a police officer signals you to move your vehicle to the side of the road, reduce your speed, and stop, the police officer pulls youover orpulls the vehicleover.

Jim was driving on the wrong side of the road, and hegot pulled over by the state police.

When the police officer saw the driver go through a red light, hepulled the car rightover.

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	present tense	-ing form	past tense	past participle
warm up
	warm up & warms up	warming up	warmed up	warmed up

1. warm up p.v. When the temperature of a thing or place becomes higher, itwarms up.

It's cold outside. I hope itwarms up before the picnic.

I set the thermostat at eighty degrees, and the housewarmed rightup.

2. warm... up p.v. When people or things cause a thing or place to become warmer, theywarm itup.

The fireplace doesn't reallywarm the houseup much.

That soup is cold. You canwarm itup in the microwave.

warmed up part.adj. After a thing or place has become warmer, it iswarmed up.

Give the baby the bottle with the flowers on it; it'swarmed up.

3. warm... up p.v. When you allow a mechanical device to run for a short time before being used, youwarm itup. When a mechanical device runs for a short time before being used, itwarms up.

You should alwayswarm your carup for a few minutes before you go anywhere.

In the winter I always let my carwarm up while I eat breakfast.

warmed up part.adj. After a mechanical device has been allowed towarm up and is ready to be used, it iswarmed up.

We have to go — is the carwarmed up yet?

4. warm up p.v. When you do light exercises before playing a sport or exercising with greater effort, youwarm up. When performers play musical instruments or sing just before a performance in order to be ready, theywarm up.

Before a race most runnerswarm up with stretching exercises.

The singerwarmed up in her dressing room before the concert.

warm-up n. Light exercises done before playing a sport or exercising with greater effort are called awarm-up. When a performer plays an instrument or sings just before a performance in order to be ready, this is awarm-up.

The runners got to the stadium early so they would have time for awarm-up.

warm-up n. Warm-up clothes are worn during awarm-up. Warm-up exercises are done before playing a sport or exercising. Awarm-up game, round, and so on, is played in order towarm up for the actual game.

The baseball players wore theirwarm-up jackets when they weren't on the field.