Pump

[pʌmp]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction.

(noun.) a low-cut shoe without fastenings.

(verb.) question persistently; 'She pumped the witnesses for information'.

(verb.) deliver forth; 'pump bullets into the dummy'.

(verb.) operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal; 'pump the gas pedal'.

(verb.) raise (gases or fluids) with a pump.

(verb.) move up and down; 'The athlete pumps weights in the gym'.

(verb.) draw or pour with a pump.

(verb.) flow intermittently.

(verb.) supply in great quantities; 'Pump money into a project'.

整理:梅--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A low shoe with a thin sole.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc.

(v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump.

手打:西尔维亚

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Cross-examine, interrogate, cross-quest_iou

ANT:Prime, indoctrinate, instruct, cram

迪莉娅編輯

解釋/意思:

n. a thin-soled shoe used in dancing.—adj. Pumped wearing pumps.

n. a machine for raising water and other fluids to a higher level: a machine for drawing out or forcing in air.—v.t. to raise with a pump: to draw out information by artful questions.—v.i. to work a pump: to raise water by pumping.—ns. Pump′age the amount pumped; Pump′-barr′el the cylinder which forms the body of a pump.—pa.p. Pumped (coll.) out of breath panting—sometimes with out.—ns. Pump′er; Pump′-gear the various parts which make up a pump; Pump′-hand′le the lever by means of which the pump is worked; Pump′-head -hood a frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump serving to guide the water into the discharge-spout; Pump′ing-en′gine any form of motor for operating a pump; Pump′-rod the rod by which the handle is fixed to the bucket which moves up and down inside; Pump′-room the apartment at a mineral spring in which the waters are drunk; Pump′-well a well from which water is got by pumping.—Pump ship to urinate.

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