Definitions for Pump

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Pump pump

Spelling: [puhmp]

IPA: /pʌmp/

Pump is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in Pump (mppu).

Definitions for Pump

noun

1. an apparatus or machine for raising, driving, exhausting, or compressing fluids or gases by means of a piston, plunger, or set of rotating vanes.
2. 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.
3. Biology. an animal organ that propels fluid through the body; heart.
4. 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.
5. a lightweight, low-cut shoe without fastenings for women.
6. a slip-on black patent leather shoe for men, for wear with formal dress.

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 Pump

1400-50; late Middle English pumpe (noun); cognate with German Pumpe, Dutch pomp

Examples for Pump

No—but it will make them exceedingly uncomfortable for a time—I'm going to pump them out.

Do, some kind Christian, pump a stroke or two, just to wet my whistle.

She put two and two together—the pump, the laugh, and Jane Cotton's Sam.

There's not such a spring in England as the pump under the archway.

Xi will continue to walk tall on the world stage and to pump Chinese nationalism, especially against the old enemy, Japan.

We invented a trusted magical figure, turned him into a home wrecker, and pump those lyrics into the backseat all December long.

To accommodate patients getting chemotherapy at odd hours, Hrushesky used a pump that operated automatically.

Some are homes and some are pump houses, and you can only tell the difference when you see human silhouettes scurry on rooftops.

Dylan, age 18, says his favorite pre-date ritual is to pump his ego.

The pump was quite as much admired as the 'Jupiter,' and it proved as great a failure.