pump
Forms
- Plural
- pumps
- present (v1)
- pump
- past (v2)
- pumped
- past participle (v3)
- pumped
- present participle
- pumping
- 3rd person singular
- pumps
Definitions
1.A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
- This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
2.A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
3.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.
4.A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
- This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
- Trump thinks: If I can actually end this war and lift sanctions on Russia, Russian oil will swamp the global market, it’ll drive down the price of gasoline at the pump and I will win the midterms.
1.To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
- "Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy."
- But pump not me for politics.
- I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in there it suddenly occurred to me the fellow was trying to get at something - in fact, pumping me.
2.To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.(slang)
- Pump my tight hole so long and hard that I can't walk or sit when you're done.
3.To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
- I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
- I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
- With each beat, your heart's left ventricle pumps blood into your arteries, which are all different sizes.
4.To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
- The underlying cause of the warming is human activities pumping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But the reasons why marine heating is speeding up now are far from clear.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4085
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English pumpe, possibly from Middle Dutch pompe (“pipe, water conduit”) or Middle Low German pumpe (“pump”), probably ultimately imitative.
Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and Danish pompe; also Spanish bomba (“pump”).