Definitions for sumps

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sumps sump

Spelling: [suhmp]

IPA: /sʌmp/

Sumps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in sumps (mpssu).

Definitions for sumps

noun

1. a pit, well, or the like in which water or other liquid is collected.
2. Machinery. a chamber at the bottom of a machine, pump, circulation system, etc., into which a fluid drains before recirculation or in which wastes gather before disposal.
3. Mining. a space where water is allowed to collect at the bottom of a shaft or below a passageway. a pilot shaft or tunnel pushed out in front of a main bore.
4. British. crankcase.
5. British Dialect. a swamp, bog, or muddy pool.

Origin of sumps

1375-1425; late Middle English sompe Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sump; cognate with German Sumpf; akin to swamp

Examples for sumps

That was the purpose of the four nuclear pumps in the sump hole.

A manhole had to be put in the top and a sump in the bottom.

"He wuz jes signin' some kin' er deeds or sump'n," said Daddy.

"I got sump'n to tell you," said July, hastening to change an embarrassing subject.

Because, as he was prone to admit to himself, "dey was sump'in' in de unnerstannin'."

Those vapors condense into a liquid later in the process and that “condensate” is collected in a storage area, called a sump.

But lemme tell ye, thar was more'n sump'n to eat in that bag!

Ef I ain't done come traipsin' off en lef' my ole man money-pus, en he got sump'n' in dar w'at he won't take a purty fer, needer!

It may have been on the office sofa or it may have been in the sump.

We've got a good quarter-mile of deep rock for the sump hole.