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pump

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Word definitions for pump in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pump \Pump\, v. i. To work, or raise water, a pump.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bicycle pump (= for putting more air in a tyre ) ▪ Where’s the bicycle pump? a fuel pump (= a machine that forces fuel into an engine ) ▪ The car's fuel pump was leaking. a petrol pump (= a machine for putting petrol ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy" draw or pour with a pump supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project" flow intermittently move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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. ...

Usage examples of pump.

The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.

An amine solution pump came on, a vent fan winding up in the space, whirring quietly in the otherwise church like quiet.

His apish visage began to look as if whitewash were being pumped under the skin.

Or he could get up again, and return the aquarium to its shelf, and reassemble its pump and light.

He could feel his heart laboring in his chest, a pounding arrhythmic tattoo as it pumped the blood through his body.

He could see fields of good alfalfa hay, all irrigated by the water flowing from the artesian wells and pumped by the windmills.

It was sheer blind reflex, speech centres in the brain spewing an analogue of what she was pumping out at transmission levels, like a man gesturing furiously on an audio- phone link.

One emblematic evening I watched Franklin pump to apogee and bail out, no doubt escaping one of those avuncular Flying Fortresses on a parachute that thighs sacrificed their stocking silks for.

Crude oil came in from the Baku fields, pumped through furnaces into the fractionating towers, where the superhot crude was separated into light, medium, and heavy fractions.

Now the surface had a rusty sheen to it, mirroring a redness in the sky that came, Ralph Bales believed, from garbage pumped into the air by refineries outside of Wood River, across the Mississippi.

Sheridan Automatic Pump Works, and at the end of six months the family physician sent Bibbs to begin at the bottom and learn from the ground up in a sanitarium.

Down near the sugar Pump Works, where Bibbs sat, there was audible speculation and admiration.

While the pumps clanged throughout the ship to free her of the hundreds of tons of sea-water that washed through her, von Kleine left the bridge and, with his engineer commander and damage control officer, they listed the injuries that Blucher had received.

So Bonaire became a pumping station in the cocaine pipeline into the United States, and there was so much money, people would kill to protect it.

Dean clearly saw an armless man stumbling and screaming in the street, the severed brachial arteries pumping his blood away in bright spurts.