Word Finder - pumping

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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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The act by which something is pumped.

She could feel the blood pumping in her neck.

There are pumping works and filtration beds for the water-supply of London.

She stared at him, blood pumping angrily in her throat.

This is an expensive operation as it entails the cost of pumping the water out again and repairing the resulting damage.

But sufficient time must be allowed to elapse before pumping out the water, as otherwise the fire may break out again.

The larger part of the water supply, however, is now derived by pumping from strata at about sea-level.

This method necessitates the use of very considerable pumping power during the sinking, as the water has to be kept down in order to allow the sinkers to reach a water - tight stratum upon which the foundation of the tubbing FIG.

These can, however, only be used advantageously where there are fixed pumps, the fall of water generating the power resulting in a load to be removed by the expenditure of an equivalent amount of power in the pumping engine above that necessary for keeping down the mine water.

In dip workings the tail rope is often made to work a pump connected with the bottom pulley, which forces the water back to the cistern of the main pumping engine in the pit.

Private irrigation by pumping was first successfully introduced about 1901, and in 1906 a state report estimated that 125 pumping irrigation plants were in use in the state.

Other parks are Lake Park, also on the lake shore, at North Point, where stands the waterworks pumping station with its tall tower; Riverside and Kilbourn Parks, east and west respectively of the upper Milwaukee river, in the northern part of the city, Washington Park on the west side, containing a menagerie and a herd of deer; Sherman Park on the west side, and Kosciusko, Humboldt and Mitchell Parks on the south side.

This provides for taking water from the Ohio river at a point on the Kentucky side opposite the village of California, Ohio, and several miles above the discharge of the city sewers; for the carrying of the water by a gravity tunnel under the river to the Ohio side, the water being thence elevated by four great pumping engines, each having a daily capacity of 30,000,000 gallons, to settling basins, being then passed through filters of the American or mechanical type, and flowing thence by a gravity tunnel more than 4 m.

In this way jelly-fish progress feebly by the pumping movements of the umbrella.

Owing to the pumping of the brine, large tracts of land have been submerged, and there is thus a constant danger to houses.

The cultivation of the cane was greatly encouraged by the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, which established practically free trade between the islands and the United States, and since 1879 it has been widely extended by means of irrigation, the water being obtained both by pumping from numerous artesian wells and by conducting surface water through canals and ditches.

By the close of 1861 wells had been drilled from which 2000 to 3000 barrels flowed in a day without pumping, and the state's yearly output continued to increase until 1891, when it amounted to 31,424,206 barrels.

But in the beginning of the 15th century new possibilities were revealed by the adaptation of the windmill to the purpose of pumping water.

In modern times pumping engines have replaced windmills, and the typical old Dutch landscape with its countless hooded heads and swinging arms has been greatly transformed by the advent of the chimney stacks of the pumping-stations.

The methods employed have been three - (i.) the cutting of drainage channels and clearing the marshes by pumping, the method principally employed; (ii.) the system of warping, i.e.

Since 1884 the Italian Government have been systematically enclosing, pumping dry, and generally draining the marshes of the Agro Romano, that is, the tracts around Ostia; the Isola Sacra, at the mouth of the Tiber; and Maccarese.

Owing to the difficulty and expense of securing water from running streams by gravity systems, a great variety of methods were developed of pumping water by windmills, gasoline or hot-air engines, and steam.

Throughout the Great Plains region, east of the Rocky Mountains, and in the broad valleys to the west, windmills were extensively used, each pumping water for from 1 to 5 acres of cultivated ground.

The city is supplied with water drawn from the Missouri river above the mouth of the Kansas or Kaw (which is used as a sewer by Kansas City, Kan.); the main pumping station and settling basins being at Quindaro, several miles up the river in Kansas; whence the water is carried beneath the Kansas, through a tunnel, to a high-pressure distributing station in the west bottoms. The waterworks (direct pressure system) were acquired by the city in 1895.

The flow is often assisted by pumping.

This is the brine which is raised at the various pumping stations in Northwich and elsewhere around, and which serves to produce white salt.

The city is divided into twelve radial systems, each with a pumping station, and the drainage is forced through five mains to eighteen sewage farms, each of which is under careful sanitary supervision, in respect both of the persons employed thereon, and the products, mainly milk, passing thence to the city for human consumption.

Perennial springs of large volume rarely occur in Great Britain at a sufficient height to afford supplies by gravitation; but from the limestones of Italy and many other parts of the world very considerable volumes issue far above the sea-level, and are thus available, without pumping, for the supply of distant towns.

Its full capacity has not been ascertained; it much exceeds the present pumping power, and is probably greater than that of any other single well unassisted by adits or boreholes.

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.

When the water has been drawn down by pumping to a lower level its passage through the sandstone or chalk in the neighbourhood of the borehole is further resisted by the smaller length of borehole below the water; and there are many instances in which repeated lowering and increased pumping, both from wells and boreholes, have had the result of reducing the water available, after a few years, nearly to the original quantity.

The method will therefore always increase the yield for the time, and it may do so permanently, though to a very much smaller extent than at first; but its economy must always be less than that of direct pumping.

For small supplies such a well may be perfectly successful; but however small the quantity drawn, it must obviously have the effect of diminishing the volume of fresh water, which contributes to the maintenance of the level of saturation above the sea-level; and with further pumping the fresh water would be so far drawn upon that the mean level of saturation would sink, first to a curved figure - a cone of depression - such as that represented by the new level of saturation dd, and later to the figure represented by the lines ee, in which the level of saturation has everywhere been drawn below the mean sea-level.

In its narrow and irregular streets many of the houses are strongly bolted to keep them secure from the subsidences which result not infrequently from the pumping of brine.

In water-cooled condensers it is usual to arrange that the water passes through a large number of small pipes contained in a larger one through which the gas flows, and as it constantly happened that condenser pipes became choked by naphthalene, the so-called reversible condenser, in which the stream of gas may be altered from time to time and the walls of the pipes cleaned by pumping tar over them, is a decided advance.

Pumping by steam-engines began in 1848, and the lake was dry by the 1st of July 1852.

In 1907 there were six engines in the works with a pumping capacity of 152,000,000 gallons daily.

He didn't make any decisions; he just went out and visited the local offices and some of our independent agents, you know, pumping up our product line, troubleshooting, that sort of thing.

The major life threatening complication affects the aorta, which is the major vessel arising from the main pumping chamber of the heart.

He added that 5 pumping appliances, 1 rescue tender and 1 emergency support unit support the district resources.

Just behind the tanks, straddling the trench line, came Bradleys pumping machine-gun bullets into Iraqi troops.

The problem is that we are pumping out twice as much carbon dioxide as these natural systems can remove.

And if you find the telly version compulsive, the game should set your adrenaline pumping too.

Pumping millions of of taxpayer dollars of play for.

The same authors produce evidence to suggest that cells are capable of using electric fields in ion pumping.

The canal crosses an embankment past an old wharf which served a pumping station.

It is only four years old and powered by diesel, is capable of pumping a thousand gallons off water a minute.

Dry mines are filled by drilling down through the roof and pumping in liquid grout and allowing it to set.

Standard results about normal forms, pumping lemmas, etc., are used to chart the scope and limits of the context-free grammars.

The storm pumping station will pump excess flows out of the sewerage system during severe rainfall to the existing outfall.

A storm outfall and pumping station also occurs off Ventnor.