pump

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English[edit]

A hand-operated water pump.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: pŭmp, IPA(key): /pʌmp/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English pumpe, possibly from Middle Dutch pompe (“pipe, water conduit”) or Middle Low German pumpe (“pump”). Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and Danish pompe.

Noun[edit]

pump (plural pumps)

  1. A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
    This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
  2. 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. A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
    This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
  4. (bodybuilding, climbing) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
    • 2010, Eric Velazquez, "Power Pairings", Reps! 17:83
      Want a skin-stretching pump? Up the volume by using high-rep sets.
      A great pump is better than coming. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
  5. (colloquial) 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. (US, obsolete, slang) The heart.
  7. (obsolete, vulgar, British slang) The vagina.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
    • 1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:
      Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.
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Verb[edit]

pump (third-person singular simple present pumps, present participle pumping, simple past and past participle pumped)

  1. (transitive) To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
    I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
  2. (transitive, often followed by up) To fill with air.
    He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres.
  3. (transitive) To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
    I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
  4. (transitive) To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
    Synonym: handshake
  5. (transitive) To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
    Synonyms: grill, interrogate
    • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd
      But pump not me for politics.
    • 1899 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 214:
      I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in there it suddenly occurred to me the fellow was trying to get at something - in fact, pumping me.
  6. (intransitive) To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
    I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
  7. (intransitive, slang) To be going very well.
    The waves were really pumping this morning.
    Last night's party was really pumping.
  8. (sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
    • 2011 February 5, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 4 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC‎[1]:
      Blackburn pumped long balls towards Diouf as they became increasingly desperate to salvage a point, but Wigan held on for a win that may prove crucial in their quest for Premier League survival.
  9. (Britain, slang, vulgar, childish) To pass gas; to fart.
    Synonyms: trump; see also Thesaurus:flatulate
    • 2008, Kelman, James, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 82:
      People never pumped, just never never, but sometimes ye got smells.
  10. (computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
    • 2006, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform
      Sure enough, rather than pumping a message to the Console window, you will now see a message box displaying your message
    • 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows
      The CLR pumps messages automatically during a wait, reducing the likelihood of this but it can show up in native code.
    • c. 2012, Microsoft, .NET Framework 4.5 documentation for Marshal.CleanupUnusedObjectsInCurrentContext
      The interop system pumps messages while it attempts to clean up RCWs.
  11. (obsolete, British slang) To copulate.
    Synonyms: bang; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
    • 1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:
      Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.
  12. (bodybuilding) To weightlift.
    Synonyms: big up, lift, pump iron
Descendants[edit]
  • ⇒ Czech: pumpovat
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Etymology 2[edit]

The etymology of the term is unclear and disputed. One possibility is that it comes from pomp (“ornamentation”).[1] Another is that it refers to the sound made by the foot moving inside the shoe when dancing.[2] The Oxford English Dictionary claims that it appeared in the 16th century, and lists its origin as "obscure". It has also been linked to the Dutch pampoesje, possibly borrowed from Javanese pampus, ultimately from Persian پاپوش‎ (pâpuš), borrowed from Arabic بَابُوش‎ (bābūš).[3]

Noun[edit]

pump (plural pumps)

  1. (Britain) A low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; A gym shoe; A plimsoll; A low-top canvas sneaker.
    Synonyms: gym shoe, (UK) dap, (UK) plimsoll, (US) sneaker
    • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew:
      Gabriel's pumps were all unpinkt i' th' heel
  2. (chiefly Canada, US) 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)
    Synonym: court shoe
    She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.
  3. A dancing shoe.
  4. A type of shoe without a heel.[4]
Translations[edit]
trainer or sneaker — see trainer,‎ sneaker
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from the noun or verb pump

References[edit]

  1. ^ Walter William Skeat (1882) A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, published 2005, →ISBN
  2. ^ James Donald (1867) Chambers' etymological dictionary, W. and R. Chambers
  3. ^ Intern. Gesellschaft für Ethnographie; Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië, volume 9, Ter Lands-drukkerij, 1870
  4. ^ Dictionarium Britannicum, 1736

Anagrams[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Verb[edit]

pump

  1. imperative of pumpe

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch pomp (“ship's pump”)

Noun[edit]

pump c

  1. a pump

Declension[edit]

Declension of pump 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pump pumpen pumpar pumparna
Genitive pumps pumpens pumpars pumparnas

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Welsh[edit]

Welsh cardinal numbers
 <  4 5 6  > 
    Cardinal : pump
    Ordinal : pumed
Welsh Wikipedia article on pump

Alternative forms[edit]

  • pum (when followed by a singular noun)

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh pymp, from Old Welsh pimp, from Proto-Brythonic *pɨmp, from Proto-Celtic *kʷinkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

Pronunciation[edit]

Numeral[edit]

pump (before nouns pum)

  1. five

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pump bump mhump phump
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pump”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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