Pump

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  • noun. A woman's shoe that has medium or high heels and no fastenings.
  • noun. A machine or device for raising, compressing, or transferring fluids.
  • noun. A molecular mechanism for the active transport of ions or molecules across a cell membrane.
  • noun. Electromagnetic radiation used to raise atoms or molecules to a higher energy level.
  • noun. The heart.
  • noun. The place where consumers purchase gasoline. Used with the.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to flow by means of a pump or pumplike organ or device.
  • intransitive verb. To draw, deliver, or pour forth.
  • intransitive verb. To propel, eject, or insert.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to move with an up-and-down or back-and-forth motion.
  • intransitive verb. To push or pull (a brake or lever, for instance) rapidly.
  • intransitive verb. To shoot (bullets, for example) at or into.
  • intransitive verb. To raise (atoms or molecules) to a higher energy level by exposing them to electromagnetic radiation at a resonant frequency.
  • intransitive verb. To transport (ions or molecules) against a concentration gradient by the expenditure of chemically stored energy.
  • intransitive verb. To invest (money) repeatedly or persistently in something.
  • intransitive verb. To question closely or persistently.
  • intransitive verb. To promote or publicize vigorously.
  • intransitive verb. To operate a pump.
  • intransitive verb. To move gas or liquid with a pump or a pumplike organ or device.
  • intransitive verb. To move up and down or back and forth in a vigorous manner.
  • intransitive verb. To flow in spurts.
  • intransitive verb. To fake a throw, pass, or shot by moving the arm or arms without releasing the ball.
  • phrasal verb. To inflate with gas by means of a pump.
  • phrasal verb. To fill with enthusiasm, strength, or energy.
  • phrasal verb. To be actively involved in a bodybuilding program.
  • idiom. (pump iron) To lift weights.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To work a pump; raise water or other liquid with a pump.
  • To raise with a pump: as, to pump water.
  • To free from water or other fluid by means of a pump or pumps: as, to pump a ship.
  • To elicit or draw out by or as by artful interrogation: as, to pump out secrets.
  • To subject to a pumping process for the purpose of extracting, procuring, or obtaining something, such as money, information, or secrets.
  • noun. One of several kinds of hydraulic and pneumatic machines.
  • noun. [⟨ pump, verb] An artful effort to extract or elicit information, as by indirect question or remark.
  • noun. A low shoe or slipper, with a single unwelted sole, and without a heel, or with a very low heel, worn chiefly for dancing.
  • To throb; beat.
  • To issue in intermittent jets, as blood from a wounded artery.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A low shoe with a thin sole.
  • intransitive verb. To work, or raise water, a pump.
  • transitive verb. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
  • transitive verb. To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser.
  • noun. See Pump handle, below.
  • noun. See Dale.
  • noun. the apparatus belonging to a pump.
  • noun. the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump.
  • noun. a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump.
  • noun. the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod.
  • noun. a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk.
  • Word Usage
    "In many cases it is desirable to force water considerably above the pump itself, as, for instance, in the fire hose; under such circumstances a type of pump is employed which has received the name of _force pump_."
    Hypernym
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    blast  bring up  displace  draw  elevate  
    Rhyme
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    Hump  Trump  bump  chump  clump  
    Same Context
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    pumped  pumping  pumps