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pump English

Meaning pump meaning

What does pump mean?
Definitions in simple English

pump Verb

— To make water or any other liquid move using a machine. We pumped water from the river onto the field to help the plants grow. The heart pumps blood through the body.

pump Noun

— A pump is a machine for making water move. There was water on the floor of the house, so we had to buy a pump. — A pump is a machine that gives a liquid, often fuel. Before a car journey, go to the gas station and fill up your tank at the pump.

pump

— noun a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction — verb operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal pump the gas pedal — verb deliver forth pump bullets into the dummy — verb draw or pour with a pump — verb raise (gases or fluids) with a pump — verb move up and down The athlete pumps weights in the gym — verb supply in great quantities Pump money into a project — verb flow intermittently — verb question persistently She pumped the witnesses for information — noun a low-cut shoe without fastenings — noun (= heart) 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

Synonyms pump synonyms

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pump English » English

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Topics pump topics

What do people use pump to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Conveying water
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Person Body Internal organs

Heart

  • What words refer to the heart moving blood?
    pump
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Working with oil and gas
Work and occupation Tool

Machine
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something
Universe, creation Sky Air

Blow air
Daily life Fire

Tend a fire
Physical actions Move Travel Travel by land

Vehicle
States Quantity

Full

Conjugation pump conjugation

How do you conjugate pump?

pump · verb

Examples pump examples

How do I use pump in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The human heart is analogous to a pump.
Real men go to the gym to pump iron, not to do aerobics.
The heart serves to pump blood.
The purpose of the heart is to pump blood.
You don't have to go inside. You can pay at the pump.
Can I get 20 dollars on pump 3?
The petrol pump attendant wasn't very thrilled when we only bought a newspaper from him.
Pump up the tire.
Tom saw his job as a pump attendant as a stopgap measure until a better one came up.
We were really under the pump to meet that deadline.
Could you show me how to use this pump?
The pump didn't work properly.
They used a pump to take out the water.
The carburetor wasn't the problem. You needed a new fuel pump.
We get our water from a pump in the backyard.
I need a bike pump.

Movie subtitles

I had a water pump go out in Pagosa Springs.
As a matter of fact, I'm going upstairs to get your partner a stomach pump.
What good does it do the boss to pump the world full of dope and not make any money off it? These things won't stay down.
Old pump out of order?
You know, the old pump isn't what it used to be.
These oil pump connections aren't very good, but we'll have to risk it.
I wish he'd do something about making your heart pump.
I pump him out a little bit.
A picture popped into my mind of a pump without a handle.
Chicken okra, corn pone, shortening bread. pickled watermelon, and a stomach pump.
Got him right through the pump with this.
I want a stomach pump.
Rather a neat hole and squirting blood like a bilge pump.
But I'm going to pump it up again.
And you used to pump the organ, remember? You little organ pumper, you!
If he keeps on looking that bad, you won't pump up any fight.
My moose head is blocking the fire pump. - Wait.
Bring the petrol pump handle!
They'll never get anything out of me, unless they use a pump.
Well, what do you want now, Miss Stomach Pump?
Tolliver's air hose will break at the pump.
Better keep one eye on that pump, man.
We've started the bilge pump. We can keep her under control.
You know it's lucky for that cheese champ I didn't take a pump at him.
Some of us stuck our heads under the pump.
And you can put that in your oil well and pump it!
Grab that pump and start pumping.
From the pump.
We've started the bilge pump.
Tom, see that Nat and Seth get to the pump before they come in the house.
Afterwards a pump is lead into the tube and the loose earth is sucked up.
I've a good mind to haul off and pump you up, chest and belly alike.
I let you pump me.

News and current affairs

Until then, water-starved communities dig for water, if they can find it and if they can afford to pump it out.
When normal mortgages did not prime the pump enough, he encouraged them to take out variable-rate mortgages - at a time when interest rates had nowhere to go but up.
If it is generally thought that oil prices will be higher in the future, owners of oil reserves will tend to postpone costly investments in exploration and expansion of production capacity, and they may pump oil at below capacity.
Unfortunately, though, so long as some countries like China, Germany, Japan, and the oil exporters pump surplus goods into the world economy, not all countries can trim their spending to stay within their means.
Instead, the global financial system has continued to pump hundreds of billions of dollars per year into exploring and developing new fossil-fuel reserves, while directing very little toward CCS.
The frontrunner is Taro Aso, the LDP secretary general, who wants economic pump-priming.
He determined that Londoners who drank from one particular water source were at the highest risk for the disease, and he recommended removal of the handle from the pump supplying drinking water from that source.
One example is pumped hydropower, in which excess wind and solar energy is used to pump water uphill into reservoirs that can later produce hydroelectric power.
Installing a solar-powered water pump in a developing country may destroy a traditional social structure based on control of the water supply.
That supposedly reduced supply by encouraging producers to store oil in the ground and pump it later.
It would be useful to know the answer to this question before trying repeatedly to pump up the economy in the short run with costly policies that might worsen longer-run prospects.
Indeed, the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are doing all they can to pump up US spending.
Global financial markets suck most of the world's savings to the center, but they fail to pump money back out to the periphery.
While the Fed is planning to pump more money into the US economy, the PBC is trying to reduce the amount of money in circulation in China.
Murdoch's tabloids pump out anti-scientific propaganda opposing climate-change policies not only in Australia, but also in the US and elsewhere.
The effort to pump the American economy full of money will run into difficulties on two fronts: the exchange rate and interest rates.
In the absence of new faces or ideas, the only prospect for the coming election year will be to pump more petrodollars into a struggling and grossly inefficient economy.
Hence Keynes gave governments two tasks: to pump up the economy with air when it starts to deflate, and to minimize the chances of serious shocks happening in the first place.
Consider carbon capture and sequestration. The idea is that power plants and other large fossil fuel users should capture the CO2 and pump it into permanent underground storage sites, such as old oil fields.
All of these countries are also determined to restore their output to previous peak levels and should be able to pump more oil than they did in the 1970s and 1980s by exploiting new production technologies pioneered in the US.
For example, to cope with toxic drugs, a cancer cell may increase its rate of DNA repair, or actively pump the drug out across the cell membrane.
But, while he has continued his softer tone since the election, he has not even bothered to ask for fast-track trade-promotion authority, let alone try to pump new life into the Doha Round of global trade talks.
That field will pump 225,000 barrels per day when it begins production in 2008.
The idea is that power plants and other large fossil fuel users should capture the CO2 and pump it into permanent underground storage sites, such as old oil fields.

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