Pump
[pʌmp]
Definition
(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'.
Checker: Mae--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Sylvia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cross-examine, interrogate, cross-quest_iou
ANT:Prime, indoctrinate, instruct, cram
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Definition
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.
Typist: Vern
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a pump in a dream, denotes that energy and faithfulness to business will produce desired riches, good health also is usually betokened by this dream. To see a broken pump, signifies that the means of advancing in life will be absorbed by family cares. To the married and the unmarried, it intimates blasted energies. If you work a pump, your life will be filled with pleasure and profitable undertakings.
Checker: Truman
Examples
- The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In order to understand the action of a pump, we will suppose that no water is in the pump, and we will pump until a stream issues from the spout. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The height to which the water can be forced in the pipe depends upon the size and construction of the pump and upon the force with which the plunger can be moved. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Put 'em under the pump,' suggested a hot-pieman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The water pumps were at work again, and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did not also twinkle. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather Oxfords his authority had never been disputed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The boy sat down again and looked at his pumps, till Jo said, trying to be polite and easy, I think I've had the pleasure of seeing you before. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I had a series of vacuum-pumps worked by mercury and used for exhausting experimental incandescent lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here, as in other pumps of its type, the valves open inward rather than outward. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The pure nitrogen then can be pumped into the fixation ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He shall be prettily pumped upon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the temperature is about as hot as that of molten iron the pure nitrogen gas from the liquid air plant is pumped in and allowed to act on the calcium carbide for about a day and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Compression pumps have eliminated this difficulty, and to-day fresh air is constantly pumped into the mines to supply the laborers there. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Additional material was then deposited into the river to fill the cavity, and finally the tunnel was recovered, pumped out and work resumed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Water is pumped into the cylinder until the plunger is raised to its full height within the cylinder, when the supply of water is cut off by the automatic operation of a valve. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was formerly used for pumping a mine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Pumping over independent voters! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How, for instance, a small engine pumping continuously could thus supply many large engines working intermittently. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The water may be brought to the surface either by laboriously raising it, bucket by bucket, or by the less arduous method of pumping. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The first steam-engines in the eighteenth century were pumping engines used to keep water out of the newly opened coal mines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One company applied the idea of pumping the liquid on the fire in 1909. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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