Definition of pumps Pumps
/pʌˈmps/ - [pumps] -
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NounPlural: pumps |
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| pump - a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction | ||
| mechanical device mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles | ||
| fuel system equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine | ||
| engine cooling system, cooling system a mechanism for keeping something cool; "the cooling was overhead fans" | ||
| air pump, vacuum pump a pump that moves air in or out of something | ||
| aspirator a pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid | ||
| auxiliary pump, donkey pump a supplementary pump available if needed | ||
| bicycle pump a small pump that fills bicycle tires with air | ||
| bilge pump a pump to remove bilgewater | ||
| centrifugal pump a pump that use centrifugal force to discharge fluid into a pipe | ||
| piston chamber, cylinder a cylindrical container for oxygen or compressed air | ||
| force pump pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure | ||
| gas pump, gasoline pump, island dispenser, petrol pump a pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks | ||
| grease-gun, gun a hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine | ||
| hand pump a pump worked by hand | ||
| heart-lung machine a pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body | ||
| hydraulic pump, hydraulic ram a water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level | ||
| lift pump pump used to lift rather than force a liquid up | ||
| oil pump a pump that keeps a supply of oil on moving parts | ||
| stirrup pump a hand-operated reciprocating pump; used in fighting fires | ||
| suction pump a pump for raising fluids by suction | ||
| pump - a low-cut shoe without fastenings | ||
| shoe footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material | ||
| pump - 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" | ||
| heart, ticker | ||
| internal organ, viscus a main organ that is situated inside the body | ||
| cardiovascular system, circulatory system the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body | ||
| arteria coronaria, coronary artery the artery that branches from the aorta to supply blood to the heart | ||
| athlete's heart enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance | ||
| biauriculate heart a heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles | ||
| cardiac muscle, heart muscle the muscle tissue of the heart; adapted to continued rhythmic contraction | ||
| cardiac valve, heart valve an implant that replaces a natural cardiac valve | ||
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| pump - operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal; "pump the gas pedal" | ||
| wield, handle, manage handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe"; "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well" | ||
| goose give a spurt of fuel to; "goose the car" | ||
| pump - draw or pour with a pump | ||
| pour move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" | ||
| take out, draw buy and consume food from a restaurant or establishment that sells prepared food; "We'll take out pizza, since I am too tired to cook" | ||
| pump - raise (gases or fluids) with a pump | ||
| elevate, bring up, get up, lift, raise cause to come to a sudden stop; "The noise brought her up in shock" | ||
| pump - question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information" | ||
| query, question pose a question | ||
| pump - deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy" | ||
| blast, shoot shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | ||
| pump - move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights in the gym" | ||
| displace, move cause to move, usually with force or pressure; "the refugees were displaced by the war" | ||
| pump - flow intermittently | ||
| spirt, spout, spurt, gush gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth" | ||
| pump - supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project" | ||
| furnish, supply, provide, render provide or equip with furniture; "We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style" | ||
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Wiktionary
- pump (Noun)
A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas. - pump (Noun)
An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping. - pump (Noun)
A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel. - pump (Noun)
A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting. - pump (Noun)
A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender. - pump (Noun)
The heart. - pump (Noun)
A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker. - pump (Noun)
A type of very high-heeled shoe; stilettoes. - pump (Noun)
A dancing shoe. - pump (Noun)
A type of shoe without a heel. - pump (Verb)
To use a pump to move liquid or gas. - pump (Verb)
Often followed by up To fill with air. - pump (Verb)
To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. - pump (Verb)
To shake a person's hand vigorously. - pump (Verb)
To gain information from a person by persistent questioning. - pump (Verb)
To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high. - pump (Verb)
To pass gas; to fart.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- pump (n.)
A low shoe with a thin sole. - pump (n.)
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. - pump (v. t.)
To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid. - pump (v. t.)
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. - pump (v. t.)
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. - pump (v. i.)
To work, or raise water, a pump.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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pump
A machine that draws a fluid into itself through an entrance port and forces the fluid out through an exhaust port.\n(Source: MGH) -
pump
To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). -
pump
To move up and down (e.g. weights in the gym).
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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pump
pump, n. a machine for raising water and other fluids to a higher level: a machine for drawing out or forcing in air.—v.t. to raise with a pump: to draw out information by artful questions.—v.i. to work a pump: to raise water by pumping.—ns. Pump′age, the amount pumped; Pump′-barr′el, the cylinder which forms the body of a pump.—pa.p. Pumped (coll.), out of breath, panting—sometimes with out.—ns. Pump′er; Pump′-gear, the various parts which make up a pump; Pump′-hand′le, the lever by means of which the pump is worked; Pump′-head, -hood, a frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump, serving to guide the water into the discharge-spout; Pump′ing-en′gine, any form of motor for operating a pump; Pump′-rod, the rod by which the handle is fixed to the bucket which moves up and down inside; Pump′-room, the apartment at a mineral spring in which the waters are drunk; Pump′-well, a well from which water is got by pumping.—Pump ship, to urinate. [O. Fr. pompe (cf. Ger. pumpe); perh. conn. with plump.] -
pump
pump, n. a thin-soled shoe used in dancing.—adj. Pumped, wearing pumps. [Prob. Fr. pompe, ornament, show, from Teut., cf. Ger. pumphosen, wide pantaloons.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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pump
a well-known machine, used to discharge the water from the ship’s bottom into the sea.The common pump is so generally understood, that it hardly requires any description. It is a long wooden tube, whose lower end rests upon the ship’s bottom, between the timbers, in an apartment called the well, inclosed for this purpose near the middle of the ship’s length.This pump is managed by means of the brake, and the two boxes, or pistons. Near the middle of the tube, in the chamber of the pump, is fixed the lower-box, which is furnished with a staple, by which it may at any time be hooked and drawn up, in order to examine it. To the upper-box is fixed a long bar of iron, called the spear, whose upper-end is fastened to the end of the brake, by means of an iron bolt passing through both. At a small distance from this bolt the brake is confined by another bolt between two cheeks, or ears, fixed perpendicularly on the top of the pump. Thus the brake acts upon the spear as a lever, whose fulcrum is the bolt between the two cheeks, and discharges the water by means of the valves, or clappers, fixed on the upper and lower boxes.These sort of pumps, however, are very rarely used in ships of war, unless of the smallest size. The most useful machine of this kind, in large ships, is the chain-pump, which is universally used in the navy. This is no other than a long chain, equipped with a sufficient number of valves, at proper distances, which passes downward through a wooden tube, and returns upward in the same manner on the other side. It is managed by a roller or winch, whereon several men may be employed at once; and thus it discharges, in a limited time, a much greater quantity of water than the common pump, and that with less fatigue and inconvenience to the labourers.This machine is nevertheless exposed to several disagreable accidents by the nature of its construction. The chain is of too complicated a fabric, and the sprocket-wheels employed to wind it up from the ship’s bottom, are deficient in a very material circumstance, viz. some contrivance to prevent the chain from sliding or jerking back upon the surface of the wheel, which frequently happens when the valves are charged with a considerable weight of water, or when the pump is violently worked. The links are evidently too short, and the immechanical manner in which they are connected, exposes them to a great friction in passing round the wheels. Hence they are sometimes apt to break or burst asunder in very dangerous situations, when it is extremely difficult or impracticable to repair the chain.The consideration of the known inconveniences of the above machine has given rise to the invention of several others which should better answer the purpose. They have been offered to the public one after another with pompous recommendations by their respective projectors, who have never failed to report their effects as considerably superior to that of the chain-pump with which they have been tried. It is however much to be lamented, that in these sort of trials there is not always a scrupulous attention to what may be called mechanical justice. The artist who wishes to introduce a new piece of mechanism, has generally sufficient address to compare its effects with one of the former machines which is crazy or out of repair. A report of this kind indeed favours strongly of the evidence of a false witness, but this finesse is not always discovered. The persons appointed to superintend the comparative effects of the different pumps, have not always a competent knowledge of hydraulics to detect these artifices, or to remark with precision the defects and advantages of those machines as opposed to each other. Thus the several inventions proposed to supplant the chain-pump have hitherto proved ineffectual, and are now no longer remembered.Of late, however, some considerable improvements have been made on the naval chain-pump, by Mr. Cole, under the direction of Capt. Bentinck. The chain of this machine is more simple and mechanical, and much less exposed to damage. It is exactly similar to that of the fire engine, and appears to have been first applied to the pump by Mr. Mylne, to exhaust the water from the caissons at Black-fryars bridge. It has thence been transferred to the marine by Capt. Bentinck, after having received some material additions to answer that service. The principal superiority of this pump to the former is, 1. That the chain is more simple and more easily worked, and of course less exposed to injuries by friction. 2. That the chain is secured upon the wheel, and thereby prevented from jerking back when charged with a column of water. 3. That it may be easily taken up and repaired when broken, or choaked with ballast, &c. 4. That it discharges a much greater quantity of water with an inferior number of men. The latter part of this account is inserted after the last article in
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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pump
A well-known machine used for drawing water from the sea, or discharging it from the ship's pump-well.--Chain-pump, consists of a long chain, equipped with a sufficient number of metal discs armed with leather, fitting the cylinders closely, and placed at proper distances, which, working upon two wheels, one above deck and the other below, in the bottom of the hold, passes downward through a copper or wooden tube, and returning upward through another, continuously lifts portions of water. It is worked by a long winch-handle, at which several men may be employed at once; and it thus discharges more water in a given time than the common pump, and with less labour.--Main pumps. The largest pumps in a ship, close to the main-mast, in contradistinction to bilge pumps, which are smaller, and intended to raise the water from the bilges when a ship is laying over so that it cannot run to the main pump-well. Hand-pump, is the distinctive appellation of the common small pump. Superseded by Downton and others.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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pump
A thin shoe. To pump; to endeavour to draw a secret from any one without his perceiving it. Your pump is good, but your sucker is dry; said by one to a person who is attempting to pump him. Pumping was also a punishment for bailiffs who attempted to act in privileged places, such as the Mint, Temple, &c. It is also a piece of discipline administered to a pickpocket caught in the fact, when there is no pond at hand. To pump ship; to make water, and sometimes to vomit. SEA PHRASE.
Wikipedia 
- A pump is a machine which moves a liquid or a gas from one place to another, often upwards.
