PUMP
\pˈʌmp], \pˈʌmp], \p_ˈʌ_m_p]\
Definitions of PUMP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project"
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a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
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question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information"
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deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy"
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operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
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draw or pour with a pump
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raise (gases oor fluids) with a pump
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move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights in the gym"
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flow intermittently
By Princeton University
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supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project"
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a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
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question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information"
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deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy"
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operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal
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raise with a pump; of gases or fluids
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move up and down, as of weights
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draw or pour with a pump
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
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An hydraulic machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids, consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the action of the piston.
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To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
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To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
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To work, or raise water, a pump.
By Oddity Software
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A machine for raising, compressing, etc., water or other fluids, by means of suction or pressure induced by the motion of a lever or crank; a plain low shoe or slipper.
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To raise or draw (water, etc.) by means of a pump; to draw water, etc., from; as, to pump a well dry; to draw out by artful questions; as, to pump a secret out of a friend.
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To raise water, etc., with a pump; to work a pump.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A machine for raising water and other fluids.
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To raise with a pump: to draw out information by artful questions.
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To work a pump: to raise water by pumping.
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PUMPER.
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A thin-soled shoe used in dancing.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To raise with, or as with, a pump; extort information; question closely.
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A device for raising, exhausting, or compressing a fluid.
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A light shoe for dancing.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. [Italian] A machine variously constructed, for raising or transferring water or other fluids ;-a machine which acts by the power of suction, consisting of a piston which works air-tight in a hollow cylinder, alternately exhausting and filling the opposite ends by means of external valves - used to extract or exhaust the air, air pump ; or to empty the stomach of its contents, stomach pump;-or to raise water from a well or reservoir, common domestic pump;-or to raise the bilge water from the hold of a ship, chain pump;-also, a machine which acts by force or pressure of air or fluid, force pump-used to throw water from a fire engine, or to send down air, as into a diving bell, mine, &c. [French pompe, dress.] A low shoe with a thin sole, formerly used in full dress and for dancing, &c.