Pump

(noun.) a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction.

(noun.) a low-cut shoe without fastenings.

(verb.) question persistently; 'She pumped the witnesses for information'.

(verb.) deliver forth; 'pump bullets into the dummy'.

(verb.) operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal; 'pump the gas pedal'.

(verb.) raise (gases or fluids) with a pump.

(verb.) move up and down; 'The athlete pumps weights in the gym'.

(verb.) draw or pour with a pump.

(verb.) flow intermittently.

(verb.) supply in great quantities; 'Pump money into a project'.

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• The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In order to understand the action of a pump, we will suppose that no water is in the pump, and we will pump until a stream issues from the spout. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The height to which the water can be forced in the pipe depends upon the size and construction of the pump and upon the force with which the plunger can be moved. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Put 'em under the pump,' suggested a hot-pieman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The water pumps were at work again, and I am not sure that the soft-hearted Captain's eyes did not also twinkle. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather Oxfords his authority had never been disputed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The surplus water is best removed by centrifugal pumps, since sand and sticks which would clog the valves of an ordinary pump are passed along without difficulty by the rotating wheel. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The boy sat down again and looked at his pumps, till Jo said, trying to be polite and easy, I think I've had the pleasure of seeing you before. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I had a series of vacuum-pumps worked by mercury and used for exhausting experimental incandescent lamps. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Here, as in other pumps of its type, the valves open inward rather than outward. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The pure nitrogen then can be pumped into the fixation ovens. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He shall be prettily pumped upon. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When the temperature is about as hot as that of molten iron the pure nitrogen gas from the liquid air plant is pumped in and allowed to act on the calcium carbide for about a day and a half. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Compression pumps have eliminated this difficulty, and to-day fresh air is constantly pumped into the mines to supply the laborers there. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Additional material was then deposited into the river to fill the cavity, and finally the tunnel was recovered, pumped out and work resumed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Water is pumped into the cylinder until the plunger is raised to its full height within the cylinder, when the supply of water is cut off by the automatic operation of a valve. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It was formerly used for pumping a mine. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Pumping over independent voters! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• How, for instance, a small engine pumping continuously could thus supply many large engines working intermittently. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The water may be brought to the surface either by laboriously raising it, bucket by bucket, or by the less arduous method of pumping. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The first steam-engines in the eighteenth century were pumping engines used to keep water out of the newly opened coal mines. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One company applied the idea of pumping the liquid on the fire in 1909. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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