| 单词 | pump |
| 释义 | pump (once / 340 pages) 1nv 2n 3n A pump is a machine that sucks up liquid from one place and moves it somewhere else, like a gas pump. If you’re pumped about this word, you can put on pumps, pump up the volume, and pump some iron! When you use the device called a pump, you pump water or gas. Other things that force some liquid or gas to move, also pump: your heart pumps blood, and your foot pumps the brake of your car when you're stopping on an icy road. If you pump iron, you lift weights. If you’re pumped, you’re excited. “Pump Up the Volume” was a hit song in 1987, so turn it up. A pump is also a woman's dress shoe. WORD FAMILYpump: pumped, pumping, pumps USAGE EXAMPLESCommonly called “secondary hearts,” these muscles pump blood back to our heart, allowing us to maintain our normal rate of metabolic activity during sedentary activities. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) He maintains that even the small flow of American ships that visited Subic over the past year pumped roughly $500 million into the local economy. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The host business for the engineering strand will be Viking Pump. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction Hypo|Hyper air pump, vacuum pump a pump that moves air in or out of something aspiratora pump that draws air or another gas through a liquid auxiliary pump, donkey pumpa supplementary pump available if needed bicycle pumpa small pump that fills bicycle tires with air bilge pumpa pump to remove bilgewater centrifugal pumpa pump that use centrifugal force to discharge fluid into a pipe force pumppump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure gas pump, gasoline pump, island dispenser, petrol pumpa pump in a service station that draws gasoline from underground storage tanks grease-gun, guna hand-operated pump that resembles a revolver; forces grease into parts of a machine hand pumpa pump worked by hand heart-lung machinea pump to maintain circulation during heart surgery; diverts blood from the heart and oxygenates it and then pumps it through the body hydraulic pump, hydraulic rama water pump that uses the kinetic energy of flowing water to force a small fraction of that water to a reservoir at a higher level lift pumppump used to lift rather than force a liquid up oil pumpa pump that keeps a supply of oil on moving parts stirrup pumpa hand-operated reciprocating pump; used in fighting fires suction pumpa pump for raising fluids by suction water pumpthe pump in the cooling system of an automobile that cause the water to circulate condensation pump, diffusion pumpvacuum pump used to obtain a high vacuum inflater, inflatoran air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire) ion pumpa vacuum pump that removes gas by ionizing the atoms or molecules and adsorbing them on a metal surface stomach pumpa suction pump used to remove the contents of the stomach sump pumpa suction pump for removing liquid from a sump mechanical device mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles 2v draw or pour with a pump Hyper draw, take out take liquid out of a container or well 3v raise (gases or fluids) with a pump Hyper bring up, elevate, get up, lift, raise raise from a lower to a higher position 4v operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal pump the gas pedal Hypo|Hyper goose give a spurt of fuel to handle, manage, wield manage or wield effectively 5v move up and down The athlete pumps weights in the gym Hyper displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 6v deliver forth pump bullets into the dummy Hyper blast, shoot fire a shot 7v supply in great quantities Pump money into a project Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 8v flow intermittently Hyper gush, spirt, spout, spurt gush forth in a sudden stream or jet 9v question persistently 2She pumped the witnesses for information Hyper query, question pose a question n the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper heart, ticker athlete's heart enlarged heart commonly found among athletes trained for endurance biauriculate hearta heart (as of mammals and birds and reptiles) having two auricles internal organ, viscus a main organ that is situated inside the body n a low-cut shoe without fastenings Hypo|Hyper spectator, spectator pump a woman's pump with medium heel; usually in contrasting colors for toe and heel shoe footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material |
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