'Pump' definitions:
Definition of 'pump'
(from WordNet)
noun
A mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction
noun
The hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly" [syn: heart, pump, ticker]
noun
A low-cut shoe without fastenings
verb
Operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal; "pump the gas pedal"
verb
Deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy"
verb
Draw or pour with a pump
verb
Supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project"
verb
Flow intermittently
verb
Move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights in the gym"
verb
Raise (gases or fluids) with a pump
verb
Question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information"
Definition of 'Pump'
From: GCIDE
- Pump \Pump\ (p[u^]mp), n. [Probably so called as being worn for pomp or ornament. See Pomp.] A low shoe with a thin sole. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pump'
From: GCIDE
- Pump \Pump\, n. [Akin to D. pomp, G. pumpe, F. pompe; of unknown origin.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: for various kinds of pumps, see Air pump, {Chain pump}, and Force pump; also, under Lifting, Plunger, Rotary, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Circulating pump (Steam Engine), a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser.
- Pump brake. See Pump handle, below.
- Pump dale. See Dale.
- Pump gear, the apparatus belonging to a pump. --Totten.
- Pump handle, the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump.
- Pump hood, a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump.
- Pump rod, the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod.
- Pump room, a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk. [Eng.]
- Pump spear. Same as Pump rod, above.
- Pump stock, the stationary part, body, or barrel of a pump.
- Pump well. (Naut.) See Well. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pump'
From: GCIDE
- Pump \Pump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pumped (p[u^]mt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. pumping.]
- 1. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- But pump not me for politics. --Otway. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pump'
From: GCIDE
- Pump \Pump\, v. i. To work, or raise water, a pump. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pump'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abdomen,
- add to,
- aggrandize,
- air pump,
- amplify,
- animate,
- anus,
- appendix,
- aspirator,
- augment,
- bail out,
- beer pump,
- bicycle pump,
- bilge pump,
- bleed,
- blind gut,
- bloat,
- blow up,
- bowels,
- brain,
- breast pump,
- broach,
- broaden,
- bucket pump,
- build,
- build up,
- bulk,
- bulk out,
- carve,
- catechize,
- cecum,
- centrifugal pump,
- chisel,
- colon,
- concentrate,
- convert,
- corkscrew,
- crescendo,
- cross-examine,
- crowbar,
- cultivate,
- decant,
- deliver,
- develop,
- dilate,
- distend,
- donkey,
- donkey pump,
- draft,
- draft off,
- drain,
- drainage pump,
- draw,
- draw from,
- draw off,
- duodenum,
- electrify,
- emphasize,
- empty,
- endocardium,
- energize,
- enlarge,
- enthuse,
- entrails,
- examine,
- excite,
- exhaust,
- expand,
- extend,
- extract,
- extractor,
- feed pump,
- force,
- force pump,
- forceps,
- forcer,
- foregut,
- galvanize,
- giblets,
- gizzard,
- grill,
- grow,
- guts,
- hand pump,
- harvest,
- heart,
- heat pump,
- hike,
- hike up,
- hindgut,
- huff,
- increase,
- inflate,
- innards,
- inner mechanism,
- insides,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- intensify,
- internals,
- interrogate,
- interview,
- intestine,
- inwards,
- jejunum,
- kidney,
- kishkes,
- large intestine,
- let,
- let blood,
- let out,
- lifting pump,
- liver,
- liver and lights,
- lung,
- machine,
- magnify,
- midgut,
- milk,
- mill,
- mine,
- motivate,
- perineum,
- phlebotomize,
- pincers,
- pipette,
- pliers,
- press,
- pressure pump,
- probe,
- process,
- puff,
- puff up,
- pump out,
- pump up,
- pumping engine,
- push,
- pylorus,
- query,
- question,
- quiz,
- raise,
- rarefy,
- rear,
- rectum,
- refine,
- rotary pump,
- sand pump,
- send,
- separator,
- shake,
- siphon,
- siphon off,
- small intestine,
- smelt,
- spleen,
- stimulate,
- stomach,
- stress,
- stretch,
- suck,
- suck out,
- suction pump,
- sufflate,
- swell,
- tap,
- test,
- ticker,
- tire pump,
- tripes,
- tweezers,
- up,
- vacuum pump,
- venesect,
- vermiform appendix,
- viscera,
- vitals,
- water pump,
- widen,
- wobble pump,
- works,
- worm out of,
- wringer
Words containing 'Pump'
- Pumped,
- Pumping,
- pumped up,
- Bilge pump,
- Brine pump,
- Bull pump,
- Centrifugal pump,
- Chain pump,
- Chain pumps,
- Circulating pump,
- Diaphragm pump,
- Donkey pump,
- Excavating pump,
- Feed pump,
- Force pump,
- Forcing pump,
- Fountain pump,
- Garden pump,
- Jet pump,
- Lift pump,
- Lifting pump,
- Paternoster pump,
- Plunger pump,
- Pneumatic pump,
- Pump Back,
- Pump brake,
- Pump dale,
- Pump gear,
- Pump handle,
- Pump hood,
- Pump rod,
- Pump room,
- Pump spear,
- Pump stock,
- Pump well,
- Pumping engine,
- Rope pump,
- Rotary pump,
- Sand pump,
- Short Pump,
- Sinking pump,
- Siphon pump,
- Slider pump,
- Sprengel pump,
- Steam pump,
- Stomach pump,
- Sucking pump,
- Suction pump,
- To fang a pump,
- To fetch a pump,
- To prime a pump,
- Unlimited pump,
- Vacuum pump,
- Wind pump,
- Wrecking pump,
- air pump,
- auxiliary pump,
- bicycle pump,
- condensation pump,
- diffusion pump,
- gas pump,
- gasoline pump,
- hand pump,
- heat pump,
- hydraulic pump,
- ion pump,
- oil pump,
- petrol pump,
- pump action,
- pump borer,
- pump house,
- pump priming,
- pumped-up,
- pumping station,
- spectator pump,
- stirrup pump,
- sump pump,
- water pump,
- Duplex pumping engine,
- Hogger-pump,
- Pump Back, OK,
- Short Pump, VA,
- pump-and-dump scheme,
- pump-type pliers,
- Direct-acting steam pump,
- direct-action steam pump