I may be speaking "out of school", but I don't think the term is necessarily beholden to explosives use. Yes you can "pull" a structure away from adjacent buildings while performing an implosion, but you can also "pull" structures during conventional demo while using either the machines or a combination of cabling and machine force. So it does include implosion as well as all other means of conventional demolition.

So "pulling" can include explosives, but in that sense it's a certain technique for forcing the building away from adjacent structures?

In other words, you would never "pull" a building to have it fall into its own footprint. "Pulling" is used to force the building to fall in a certain direction. Correct?

How about the term hook? Any comments on hooking the building?

Qonox, "pulling" is a fairly generic term. You might hear a blaster say that he is going to design the blast to pull a particular wall away from an adjacent structure, so pulling is used throughout an imploded structure to get it to fall where the blaster wants it.

Wolf, I have used the term "hook" or "hooking" during dismantlement jobs to loosely describe the different lifts and picks involved. Are you talking about a firefighting term?