EGAVE

pump

About 13.70 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
    This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
  5. noun A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
    She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
  6. noun The heart.
  7. noun The vagina.
  8. verb To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.

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Word family

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