Noun: pump
Sample Sentences
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This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
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It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
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This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
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Trump thinks: If I can actually end this war and lift sanctions on Russia, Russian oil will swamp the global market, it’ll drive down the price of gasoline at the pump and I will win the midterms. [2025 February 20, Thomas L. Friedman, Patrick Healy, Jillian Weinberger, “Tom Friedman on Just How Far Trump Could Push the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:]
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Want a skin-stretching pump? Up the volume by using high-rep sets.
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A great pump is better than coming. [2010, Eric Velazquez, “Power Pairings” (17::83 from the start), in Reps!, spoken by Arnold Schwarzenegger:]
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She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
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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. [1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:]
Nouns inflected like pump
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English pumpe, possibly from Middle Dutch pompe (“pipe, water conduit”) or Middle Low German pumpe (“pump”), probably ultimately imitative.
2. Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and Danish pompe; also Spanish bomba (“pump”). See: Middle English Nouns '
pumpe', Spanish Nouns '
bomba'.
Verbs referencing "pump"
German Nouns
Pumpe, Irish Nouns
pumpa.