pump
/pʌmp/
Misollar
- Thomas is a petrol pump attendant.
- Do you have a bicycle pump?
- They gave him a stomach pump.
- Didn't you fix the pump?
- The pump didn't work properly.
- The heart serves to pump blood.
fe’l verb
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To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
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(often followed by up) To fill with air.
He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres.
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To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
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To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
ot noun
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A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
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An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
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A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
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A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.