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# pump

«pump» in Mova's school dictionary: **a machine that pushes water, air, fuel or another liquid…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pump, pumps); verb (pump, pumps, pumped, pumping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pump is a machine that pushes water, air, fuel or another liquid or gas from one place to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#m1)

2) To pump is to move it with a pump: «pump up a tyre». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#m2)

3) Your heart is a pump that pushes blood around your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#m3)

4) Pumps are also light flat shoes (UK). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: water or air moved at a rate (litres per minute); filling or emptying a tank; two pumps working together add their rates. In science: the heart pumps blood; pumps and pressure. In everyday life: a bike pump, a petrol pump, pumping up a football. Phrases: «pump up», «bike pump», «petrol pump», «pumped» (excited).

### examples

- A pump moves 30 litres a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x1)
- How long to pump 600 litres? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x2)
- He pumps up 4 tyres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x3)
- Two pumps work together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x4)
- Use the bike pump to put air in the tyre. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x5)
- The heart pumps blood all around the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x6)
- Firefighters pumped water out of the flooded cellar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x7)
- We were pumped for the big game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x8)
- ‘Rubbish!’ said his wife. ‘Who can pump out the sea?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/#x9)

### note

Countable: «a pump». Maths: a rate: time = amount ÷ rate; two pumps working together add their rates. Trap: change hours to minutes when the rate is per minute.

### In the corpora

- [The octopus has three hearts and blue blood: two hearts pump blood through the gills and one through the body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/14/)
- [Ordinary air has so little carbon dioxide that pumping it in hardly clouds the water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/3/)
- [A fish-tank pump bubbles air into the water, and some oxygen from the bubbles dissolves for the fish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/20-gases-all-around-breath-and-balloons/17/)
- [A bee stinger should be scraped out quickly, because it keeps pumping venom for a short while.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/12/)
- [William Harvey showed in 1628 that the heart pumps blood around the body in a circle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/29-the-age-of-science/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pump» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pump/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.