pump
A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
Example
“This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.”
Other meanings
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.”
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.”
A kind of
- mechanical device
Kinds of pump
- air pump
- auxiliary pump
- bicycle pump
- centrifugal pump
- force pump
- gas pump
- hand pump
- heart-lung machine
Word history
From Middle Low German "pumpe".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “pump” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.