Word Finder - pumps

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A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.

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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

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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.

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This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.

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A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.

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A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.

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She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.

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The heart.

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(British slang) The vagina.

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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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A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.

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• dap
• plimsoll
• sneaker
• trainer

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A type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)

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She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.

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A dancing shoe.

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A type of shoe without a heel.

The water was rising so rapidly in the hold that with four pumps constantly going the crew could hardly keep it in check.

More than one-fourth of the value of its manufactures is in Quaker Oats and other food preparations; among those of less importance are lumber and planing-mill products, foundry and machineshop products, furniture, patent medicines, pumps, carriages and waggons, packed meats and agricultural implements.

Water may be raised from mines by buckets, tanks or pumps.

Condensers are always required for underground pumps.

Electrically driven pumps, now widely used, are convenient and economical.

The heart c lying in the pericardium is seen in close proximity to the renal organ, and consists of a single auricle receiving blood from the gill, and of a single ventricle which pumps it through the body by an anterior and posterior aorta.

The pumps employed to force the oil through the pipes were at first of the single-cylinder or " donkey " type, but these were found to cause excessive wear - a defect remedied by the use of the Worthington pump now generally adopted.

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.

With but slight modifications permitting the use of pumps and hoistingmachinery equally simple methods of mining may be seen to-day when the deposit is of small extent.

As the water level falls the tanks readily follow it while at work, whereas pumps must be lowered to new positions to keep within suction distance.

The individual pumps are placed several hundred feet apart, so that a series is required for a deep shaft.

Cornish pumps are economical in running expenses, provided the driving engine is of proper design and the disadvantages incurred in conveying steam underground are avoided.

Typically they are steam pumps, the steam and water cylinders being set tandem on the same bed frame, generally without fly-wheel or other rotary parts; they may be single cylinder or duplex, simple, compound or triple expansion, and having a higher speed of stroke are smaller in all their parts than Cornish pumps.

Sinking pumps, designed for use in shafts in process of sinking, are suspended by wire ropes so as to be raised before blasting and promptly lowered again to resume pumping.

Mine pumps of ordinary forms may be operated by compressed air, and air-lift pumps have been successfully employed.

Hydraulic pumping engines, while not differing essentially from steam pumps, must have specially designed valves in the power cylinder on account of the incompressibility of water.

Centrifugal pumps, constructed with several stages or sets of vanes, and suitable for high lifts, have been introduced for mine service.

The simplest forms of pumps employed for forcing liquids are "plunger pumps," consisting essentially of a piston moving in a cylinder, provided with inlet and outlet pipes, together with certain valves.

The 'disposition of these valves divides this type of pump into suction pumps and force pumps.

For a description of modern pumps, see Hydraulics.

The Max Kohl pumps are based on the same principle, but are constructed with more elaborate detail, leading to a greater efficiency, an exhaust of o 0008 mm.

Although modern mercurial pumps have assumed a multiplicity of forms, their actions can be reduced to two principles, one statical, the other hydrodynamical - at the same time instruments have been devised utilizing both these principles.

Modern machinery is little used and many mines are practically unworkable for want of pumps.

The modern distilling plant consists of two main parts termed the evaporator and condenser; in addition there must be a boiler (sometimes steam is run off the main boilers, but this practice has several disadvantages), pumps for circulating cold water in the condenser and for supplying salt water to the evaporator, and a filter through which the aerated water passes.

Columbia is in a fine farming region; is engaged extensively in the mining and shipping of phosphates; has an important trade in live-stock, especially mules; manufactures cotton, lumber, flour, bricks, pumps and woollen goods; and has marble and stone works.

The freezing machines were kept at work for 200 days, and 2191 tons of coal were consumed in supplying steam for the compressors and circulating pumps.

Some of the earlier sinkings of this kind, when pumps had to be depended on for keeping down the water, were conducted at great cost, as, for instance, at South Hetton, and more recently Ryhope, near Sunderland, through the magnesian limestone of Durham.

The chilled brine enters through a central tube of small diameter, passes to the bottom of the outer one and rises through the latter to the surface, each system of tubes being connected above by a ring main with the circulating pumps.

In a heavily-watered mine it is often necessary to establish a special engine-pit, with pumps permanently fixed, or a division of one of the pits may be devoted to this purpose.

The pumps, placed close to the point where the water accumulates, may be worked by an engine on the surface by means of heavy reciprocating rods which pass down the shaft, or by underground motors driven by steam, compressed air or electricity.

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.

The abundant lignite coal in the region was to operate pumps for raising water from the river into canals crossing the valley.

The heart receives blood from the gills and mantle, and pumps it through arteries to the body.

The Leicester system is used because the greater part of the sewers are below sea-level, and it is necessary to use powerful pumps.

Machine-making on a large scale is carried on by firms widely celebrated for the construction of locomotives, railway trucks and carriages, steamboilers and motors, turbines, pumps, metal bridges and roofs.

In more modern times there has been the same excavation of shallow pits, and sluicing, sifting and sorting, by hand labour, the only machinery used being chain pumps made of earthen bowls to remove the water from the deeper pits.

Thus the whole system broke down, the barrage was pronounced a failure, and attention was turned to watering Lower Egypt by a system of gigantic pumps, to raise the water from the river and discharge it into a system of shallow surface-canals, at an annual cost of about £250,000, while the cost of the pumps was estimated at £700,000.

It should also be noticed that on the higher strip bordering the river it is the custom to take advantage of its nearness to raise water by pumps, or other machinery, and thereby to grow valuable crops of sugar-cane, maize or vegetables.

Ordinary reciprocating pumps were commonly employed, and also air lifts and similar devices for raising great quantities of water to a height of from 20 to so ft.

Mareotis has no outlet, and the water is kept at a uniform level by means of powerful pumps which neutralize the effect of the Nile flood.

The city is a trading centre for the rich agricultural and fruit-growing district by which it is surrounded, has good water-power, and is an important manufacturing centre, its chief manufactured products being cereal health foods, for which it has a wide reputation, and the manufacture of which grew out of the dietetic experiments made in the laboratories of the sanitarium; and threshing machines and other agricultural implements, paper cartons and boxes, flour, boilers, engines and pumps.

The kilns are closed at the top, and the gases are drawn out by powerful air-pumps, washers being interposed be,, veen the kilns and the pumps for the purpose of purifying and cooling the gas.

South Bethlehem is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishop. The Bethlehem Steel Company manufactures here iron and steel, including Bessemer steels, armour plate, steel rails, government ordnance, drop forgings, iron and steel castings, stationary engines, gas engines, hydraulic pumps, projectiles, steel shaft and pig iron; zinc is smelted and refined; and there are large hosiery and knitting mills, and silk mills and cigar factories.

Among the city's manufactures are lumber, furniture, baskets, pearl buttons, cars, carriages and wagons, Corliss engines,waterworks pumps,metallic burial cases, desks, boxes, crackers, flour, pickles and beer.

The principal manufactures are mining pumps and machinery, flour, woollen goods, lumber and furniture.

But open sewers, public pumps, cobble-paved roads, open market-places and overcrowded subterranean dwellings are now abolished.

All public sources of water-supply such as streams, pumps, wells, reservoirs, conduits, aqueducts and works used for the gratuitous supply of water to the inhabitants of the district are vested in the council, who may cause all such works to be maintained and plentifully supplied with pure and wholesome water for the gratuitous use of the inhabitants, but not for sale by them.

We have hitherto supposed the pumps for drawing the water to have been placed in the well at such a level as to be accessible, while the suction pipe only is below water.

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

These pumps are capable of supplying ample air to two divers simultaneously, at the depth of twelve fathoms.