Definitions for pumping

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pumping pump·ing

Spelling: [puhm-ping]

IPA: /ˈpʌm pɪŋ/

Pumping is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 99 anagrams from letters in pumping (gimnppu).

Definitions for pumping

noun

1. the act or process of pumping or the action of a pump.
2. Meteorology. rapid change in the height of the column in a mercury barometer, resulting from fluctuations in the surrounding air pressure.
3. an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
4. Engineering, Building Trades. a shore having a jackscrew in its foot for adjusting the length or for bearing more firmly against the structure to be sustained.
5. Biology. an animal organ that propels fluid through the body; heart.
6. Cell Biology. a system that supplies energy for transport against a chemical gradient, as the sodium pump for the transfer of sodium and potassium ions across a cell membrane.

Idioms

1. prime the pump, to increase government expenditure in an effort to stimulate the economy. to support or promote the operation or improvement of something.
2. pump iron. iron (def 29).

Verb phrases

1. pump up, to inflate. to increase, heighten, or strengthen; put more effort into or emphasis on; intensify: to infuse with enthusiasm, competitive spirit, energy, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to raise, drive, etc., with a pump.
2. to free from water or other liquid by means of a pump.
3. to inflate by pumping (often followed by up):
4. to operate or move by an up-and-down or back-and-forth action.
5. to supply with air, as an organ, by means of a pumplike device.
6. to drive, force, etc., as if from a pump:
7. to supply or inject as if by using a pump:
8. to question artfully or persistently to elicit information:
9. to elicit (information) by questioning.

verb (used without object)

1. to work a pump; raise or move water, oil, etc., with a pump.
2. to operate as a pump does.
3. to move up and down like a pump handle.
4. to exert oneself in a manner likened to pumping:
5. to seek to elicit information from a person.
6. to come out in spurts.

Origin of pumping

First recorded in 1590-1600; pump¹ + -ing¹

Examples for pumping

I am of opinion that pumping a leaky ship is the most detestable work in the world.

So far in the States, he has eschewed the roaring, pumping, and scolding so as not to antagonize his new teammates and opponents.

He floated easily, pumping the air far back into his big lungs.

Because clearly nothing can go wrong with pumping out film after blockbuster film of a beloved franchise.

So we know that boring down to the bedrock and pumping it full of fluid can cause earthquakes.

The two rascals were expert at pumping the little half-breed.

Two hours' pumping in every four is no joke—but it kept her afloat as far as Falmouth.

Since 2004, US oil output has jumped by about 56 percent, the equivalent of pumping an extra 3.1 million barrels a day.

The only problem is that your lymph system does not have any pumping mechanism.

That boundless wealth of good intentions is a well no pumping can exhaust.