What is "pumps"

Usage examples of "pumps".

The only personnel left at the DS-Two site were a handful of engineers to monitor the pumps and Mercer himself.

The man overseeing the big cycloid pumps had already hit the master override so the diesel engines chugged in neutral and the pumps spooled to silence.

The lake was ringed with mud where its shores receded each day through evaporation, then expanded again at night as the pumps discharged their flow.

The pumps had drained the reservoir to the same level as the main shaft where the elevator waited.

Our pumps can handle the inflow of seawater, and emergency crews already have the hole repaired with timbers and plates, but we still appear to be sinking.

As we laboured at the pumps we looked out anxiously for the appearance of a vessel which might afford us assistance, but not a sail appeared above the horizon.

Still there was a great deal too much in the brig for safety, so we took another spell at the pumps before going on with the rigging.

I may say, once for all, that at very frequent intervals Jim and I went to the pumps, but he stood longer at the work than I did.

The pumps probably needed an engineering refit to fix deep structural wear that could not be self-repaired.

I quickly looked over the zero-temp chamber with its gray, squat force disorder pumps, the Martian-made QL thinker and interpreter, cables, power supply.

Powerful pumps and a new kind of drill were floated out to the island, along with boilers to power them.

Working at their utmost capacity, the pumps were able to lower the water level in several of the central shafts by about twenty feet at low tide.

Most importantly, I want the tandem pumps up and ready for testing by end of day.

A minute passed, and another, the only sound the throb of the pumps pouring seawater into the Water Pit, driving the dye down into the heart of the island and out to sea.

Magnusen, bypass that computer control, get the pumps started manually.