Word Finder - pumped

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To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).

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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.

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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.

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I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.

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To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.

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• handshake

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To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.

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• grill
• interrogate

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To use a pump to move liquid or gas.

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I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.

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To be going very well.

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Last night's party was really pumping.

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To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.

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To pass gas; to fart.

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• trump

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To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.

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(British slang) To copulate.

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• bang

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To weightlift.

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• big up
• lift
• pump iron

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Pumped up.

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I'm feeling pumped for the game on Friday.

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Wearing pumps (the type of shoe).

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Very tired, especially when too fatigued to grip handholds well.

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I was so pumped by the end of the climb that I could barely hold onto the jugs.

As his words soaked in, blood pumped in her temples.

The city obtains its water-supply from the Chattahoochee river (above the mouth of Peachtree Creek), whence the water is pumped by four pumps, which have a daily capacity of 55,000,000 gallons.

The irritation is caused by the rostrum of the insect being inserted into the skin, from which the blood is rapidly pumped up. A third human louse, known as the crab-louse (Phthirius pubis) is found amongst the hairs on other parts of the body, particularly those of the pubic region, but probably never on the head.

She had probably pumped Alex full of information about her.

The city owns its water-supply system, the water being pumped from Owasco Lake, about 22 m.

Helium alone refuses to be absorbed, and it can be pumped off from the charcoal in a state of absolute purity.

The system is hermetically sealed after being pumped full of water, an expansion chamber in the shape of a pipe of larger dimensions being provided at the top of the system above the highest point of circulation.

Something warm and tingly began in the vicinity of her stomach and blood pumped fiercely in her neck.

A flow of oil may often be induced in a well which would otherwise require to be pumped, by preventing the escape of gas which issues with the oil, and causing its pressure to raise the oil.

Scavengers were employed in early times, and sewage was received into wells and pumped into the kennels of the streets.

She tried to calculate, and the blood pumped in her neck.

A hawk made a wide swing across the grassland and then suddenly dived, jerking up at the last second, its great wings straining as it pumped back into the air with added weight.

The city is lighted by gas and electricity, - it was one of the first cities in the United States to adopt electric lighting, - and has a good watersupply system, owned by a private corporation, with a 41 acre filter plant of 18,000,000 gallons per diem capacity and an additional supply of water pumped from deep wells outside the city.

The juice is then drawn off and pumped up to one of the double-bottomed defecators and redefecated, or, where juice-heaters have been used instead of defecators, the scums from the separators or subsiders are heated and forced through filter presses, the juice expressed going to the evaporators and the scum cakes formed in the filter presses to the fields as manure.

After filtration the water is pumped to the storage tanks.

Hence, when in 1850 a hydraulic installation was required for a new ferry station at New Holland, on the Humber estuary, the absence of water mains of any kind, coupled with the prohibitive cost of a special reservoir owing to the character of the soil, impelled him to invent a fresh piece of apparatus, the "accumulator," which consists of a large cylinder containing a piston that can be loaded to give any desired pressure, the water being pumped in below it by a steam-engine or other prime mover.

The closer they got to her heart, the harder it pumped.

He pumped his arms hard, ignoring the cries of three men as they fell into pits or were snapped up by traps with iron teeth.

It is seen that the action is intermittent, liquid only being discharged during a down stroke, but since the driving force is that which is supplied to the piston rod, the lift is only con ditioned by the power available and by the strength of the pump. A continuous supply can be obtained by leading the delivery pipe into the base of an air chamber H, which is fitted with a discharge pipe J of such a diameter that the liquid cannot escape from it as fast as it is pumped in during a down stroke.

To secure this marvellous return, with an annual rainfall of 26 in., as much as 52,000,000 gallons of water are pumped per 24 hours from artesian wells on one estate alone.

The water necessary to the process is pumped from the river; as much as 2000 gallons per minute is used on the larger dredges.

The piston was in communication with a vacuum vessel from which the air had been pumped by steam power.

When it has completely cleared, the liquid caustic is ladled or pumped out into sheet-iron drums, holding about 6 cwt.

It has been found, however, that very efficient condensers can be made with compressed air as dielectric. If a number of metal plates separated by small distance pieces are enclosed in an iron box which is pumped full of air to a pressure, say, of 10o lb.

The water-supply system is owned and operated by the borough; the water is derived from streams flowing southward in the sparsely settled area east of the borough, and also from driven wells in the same region; it is pumped by ten engines at Ridgewood to a reservoir having a capacity of about 300,000,000 gallons, while a part of it is re-pumped to a high service reservoir near the north entrance to Prospect Park for the service of the most elevated part of the borough.

Copper precipitate is taken from water pumped up from old copper mines on Parys Mountain in Anglesey.

The brine is pumped into conduits, carried to large ponds and there evaporated by the sun; during late years the salt has been refined here, being purified of the sulphates and magnesium compounds which formerly rendered it efflorescent and of a low commercial grade.

The water-supply of Pittsburg is taken from the Allegheny river and pumped into reservoirs, the highest of which, in Highland Park, is 367 ft.

To remove this obstruction the water was pumped out while the plugs kept the orifices closed.

Every well has its own particular level of water while steady pumping at a given rate is going on, and if that level is lowered by harder pumping, it may take months, or even years, for the water in the interstices of the rock to accommodate itself to the new conditions; but the permanent yield after such lowering will always be less than the quantity capable of being pumped shortly after the change.

Pumps, however, may be (and have been) placed deep down in boreholes, so that water may be pumped from much greater depths.

Most of the liquor arriving at the bottom, after mechanically separating the tar, is pumped back into s, but a portion is always withdrawn and worked for ammonium sulphate.

The hot water from B, freed from tar, is pumped into a third tower C, through which cold air is forced by means of a Root's blower by the pipe w.

The water is pumped from Lake St Clair and is of exceptional purity.

The oil flowing from the presses is caught in reservoirs placed under the level of the floor, from which it is pumped into storage tanks for settling and clarifying.

The air was pumped into the helmet by means of a hand or foot operated bellows worked by another person.

The engine room was pumped out to make the craft buoyant, ready for the final trip in to the Humber.

Billions of pounds of new investment have been pumped into the city's economy, transforming the cityscape.

These were poured into a number of temporary steel sheet pile cofferdams that were pumped out and the caissons placed in the dry.

These diffuse to the surface to be etched, form volatile products which then desorb from the surface and are pumped away.

The Works Manager will ensure that rain water is pumped out of the bunded area periodically into the foul water drain.

This is the cylinder into which our friends the seawater droplets had been pumped.

Stored water is then pumped to an internal header tank using a pump powered by a photovoltaic (solar electric) panel.

He said " for someone who's just been pumped full of poison, you're looking really well " .

It proposes to use pumped groundwater to provide the required flow during dry periods.

Still it was better than having that gunk pumped through my nose!

Suitability depends on scale, from battery systems at smaller scale to pumped hydro at a larger scale.

The valve cap was apparently used to depress a little plunger in the valve, allowing air to be pumped into the tire.

The pilot study would entail the optimization of sampling for 1,3 butadiene using the manual method for pumped samplers.

We use local seawater pumped up through a pipeline on the harbor wall.