Crossword clues for sump
sump
- Runoff collector
- ___ pump (drainage aid)
- Kind of pump
- Drainage pump
- Water collection pit
- Collection pit
- ___ pump (plumbing device)
- __ pump: waste disposal device
- Word before pump
- Water-collecting pit
- Type of waste pump
- Type of pump in the basement
- Pump in the basement
- Plumber's pump type
- Liquid-collection pit
- Draining reservoir
- Drainage reservoir
- Drainage ditch
- Drainage container
- Drainage "pump"
- Basement feature
- ______ pump
- ____ pump
- ___ pump (rhyming drainage aid)
- ___ pump
- Waste reservoir
- Its usefulness goes to waste
- Cesspool
- Well
- Water collector
- Water pit
- Water hole
- Place for a pump
- Drainage pool
- Drainage pit
- An oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine
- A well or other hole in which water has collected
- A covered cistern
- Waste water and sewage flow into it
- Lowest part of a mine
- Pit or well
- Mine well
- Crankcase
- Drain pit
- All pee in local bog
- Oil reservoir
- Source of magnesium found in drink from reservoir
- Reservoir for oil etc
- Total pressure in reservoir
- Timeless puzzle causes depression
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sump \Sump\, n. [Cf. G. sumpf a sump in a mine, a swamp, akin to LG. sump, D. somp a swamp, Dan. & Sw. sump, and perhaps to E. swamp.]
(Metal.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion.
--Ray.The cistern or reservoir made at the lowest point of a mine, from which is pumped the water which accumulates there.
A pond of water for salt works.
--Knight.-
A puddle or dirty pool. [Prov. Eng.]
Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water.
Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "marsh, morass" (from mid-13c. in place names), from Middle Dutch somp or Middle Low German sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz, from PIE *swombho- "spongy." Meaning "pit to collect water" is first found 1650s. Sump-pump (1884) originally was in mining.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A hollow or pit into which liquid drains, such as a cesspool, cesspit or sink. 2 The lowest part of a mineshaft into which water drains. 3 A completely flooded cave passage, sometimes passable by diving. 4 (context automotive English) The crankcase or oil reservoir of an internal combustion engine. 5 (context nautical English) The pit at the lowest point in a circulation or drainage system (FM 55-501). 6 (context construction English) An intentional depression around a drain or scupper that promotes drainage. vb. (context transitive English) Of a cave passage, to end in a sump, or to fill completely with water on occasion.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A sump (American English and some parts of Canada: oil pan) is a low space that collects often undesirable liquids such as water or chemicals. A sump can also be an infiltration basin used to manage surface runoff water and recharge underground aquifers. Sump can also refer to an area in a cave where an underground flow of water exits the cave into the earth.
Sump or siphon is a term used in caving to describe a passage in a cave that is submerged under water. A sump may be static, with no inward or outward flow, or active, with continuous through-flow. Static sumps may also be connected underwater to active stream passage. When short in length, a sump may be called a duck.
In fishkeeping, a sump is an accessory tank in which mechanical equipment is kept. A remote sump allows for a clutter-free display tank.
It is found in mainly in a reef system. The sump sits below the main tank and is used as a filter, as well as a holding place of unsightly, miscellaneous equipment such as protein skimmers, calcium reactors, heaters and the like. The main advantage of having a sump plumbed into an aquarium is the increase of water in the system, making it more stable and less prone to fluctuations of pH and salinity, and also mitigating the effects of nutrient buildup or the unintentional introduction of foreign substances. In addition, some sumps have a compartment that can be converted into a refugium, helping to filter out excess nutrients such as nitrates.
A sump can also improve aeration of the water in the aquarium. As the water moves over the overflow, down the drain and splashing into the sump. This will help with gas exchange between the water and air. Increased dissolved oxygen is beneficial to fish and can also aid in avoiding Cyanobacteria outbreaks
Usage examples of "sump".
New Crobuzon were elsewhere, of course: baroque buildings in Nigh Sump or East Gidd or Flag Hill.
They were distracted, it seemed like, and Goody Sump was downright hostile.
Amy Sump is going to tell lies about you and force you to leave, so get out now before her childish imaginings ruin everything.
People like Amy Sump, weak-willed or greedy or dreamy or lazy, but all of them easily used.
Alvin tried to imagine Amy Sump there in the darkness, and even though Measure was right that it would have been a miserable marriage, the fact was that her face was pretty, and in this moment of solitary wakefulness Alvin could imagine that her young body was sweet and warm to the touch, her kiss eager and full of life and hope.
Unlike Makepeace Smith and Hank, Dowser, who were obviously angry and malicious, Amy Sump was absolutely believable.
Webster must have found Amy Sump when he visited in Vigor Church long before I got there.
He discovers Amy Sump as he searches in Vigor Church for any kind of dirt about you.
I do how you hinted to me about how you needed corroboration for that Amy Sump girl, how if you just had some way of proving that Alvin did indeed leave the jail, then she would be believed and no one would believe Alvin.
Nigh Sump a woman died of massive puncture wounds to both sides of her neck, as if she had been caught between the blades of huge serrated scissors.
The acid it had carried pooled beneath it in the dust in an acrid smoking sump, corroding the dead cactacae around it.
Her name was Ethel Sump, and she had seen Close Encounters of the Third Kind sixteen times, seventeen if you counted the time she sat through it four times in one evening and fell asleep midway through the midnight showing, only to wake up on the floor of the deserted theater the next morning to the sound of her dry popcorn belch.
Only two days ago, Ethel Sump had been simply the receptionist for FOES, a group she joined not so much because of her interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, but because belonging to any group made it easier to meet attractive men.
But Ethel Sump got used to that as her interest in flying saucers grew.
Ethel Sump enjoyed training, even training with the rifle Amanda gave her, which at first had frightened her.