pump meaning
EN[pʌmp] [-ʌmp]US
WPump
- A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action. Pumps can be classified into three major groups according to the method they use to move the fluid: direct lift, displacement, and gravity pumps.
- Pumps operate by some mechanism (typically reciprocating or rotary), and consume energy to perform mechanical work by moving the fluid.
- Mechanical pumps serve in a wide range of applications such as pumping water from wells, aquarium filtering, pond filtering and aeration, in the car industry for water-cooling and fuel injection,
- NounPLpumps
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
- An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping.
- It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
- A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
- This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
- (bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
- (colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
- She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
- Women's high-heeled shoes, in which the heels are elevated by spikes.
- (US, obsolete, slang) The heart.
- (Britain) A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
- (chiefly Canada, US) A type of very high-heeled shoe; stilettoes.
- She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.
- A dancing shoe.
- A type of shoe without a heel (source: Dictionarium Britannicum - 1736).
- A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- VerbSGpumpsPRpumpingPT, PPpumped
- (transitive) To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
- I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
- (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air.
- He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres.
- (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
- I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
- (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
- (transitive) To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- (intransitive) To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
- I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
- (intransitive, slang) To be going very well.
- The waves were really pumping this morning.
- Last night's party was really pumping.
- (sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
- Blackburn pumped long balls towards Diouf as they became increasingly desperate to salvage a point, but Wigan held on for a win that may prove crucial in their quest for Premier League survival.
- (Scotland, slang) To pass gas; to fart.
- (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
- (transitive) To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
- We got our water from a pump in the backyard and there is no domestic fatigue indoors or out-of-doors that I have not done continuously, not for fun but to keep the home fires burning.
- The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pump in English Dictionary
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