Pumping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PUMPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• force (liquid, gas, etc.) to move by or as if by means of a pump
• move in spurts as though driven by a pump
• fill (something such as a tyre or balloon) with liquid or gas using a pump
• shoot (bullets) into (a target)
• very enthusiastic or excited
• move vigorously up and down
• apply and release (a brake pedal or lever) several times in quick succession, typically to prevent skidding
• try to elicit information from (someone) by persistent questioning
NOUN:
• as in optical pumping, a laser technique
• a mechanical device using suction or pressure to raise or move liquids, compress gases, or force air into inflatable objects such as tyres
• an instance of moving something by or as if by a pump
• an active transport mechanism in living cells by which specific ions are moved through the cell membrane against a concentration gradient
• a sports shoe; a plimsoll.
• a light shoe for dancing.
• a court shoe.
• a man's slip-on patent leather shoe for formal wear.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cause to flow by means of a pump (a device for moving fluids)
• a. & n. from pump.

Words related to PUMPING

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How to use PUMPING in a sentence

• Placing the patient under a pump, and pumping on him, is the best way of doing this.
• Baines having informed me that Overseer Humphries had refused to assist in pumping the schooner on the 9th, he had, therefore, put him off duty till Mr.
• Pumping engines, mode of erecting, mode of starting.
• Already some of the large farmers employ wind or steam power in various ways to do the heavy work, such as cutting and grinding food for cattle and hogs, pumping water, etc.
• Clear around from east to west, by way of the north, they had strung out in half a circle and were pumping lead in our position.
• Of this fact the pirates themselves soon began to be convinced, for they were seen pumping out their water.
• Its earliest application was in such operations as pumping, wherein mere force is required.
• Enormous engines were at once employed to drain it by pumping the water into canals, which carried it to the sea, and the country was the richer by a new province.
• We estimate that this mill is pumping from 18,000 to 20,000 gallons of water every twenty-four hours.
• It is estimated that this mill is pumping from 30,000 to 38,000 gallons on an average every twenty-four hours.
• In the back yard was a contrivance for pumping water from the cistern that interested McTeague at once.
• The pumping apparatus are able to lift in one hour 400 tons of water.
• All yesterday and last night the pumping continued, but still the sea gained upon us.
• During the voyage the girls busied themselves preparing their modest uniforms and pumping Dr.
• MacRae grinned to himself when he surveyed the coiled pipes, the pumping engine.
• He was a formidable antagonist, and as Ashman observed his movements and ugly appearance, he felt like pumping a half dozen bullets into his lank, muscular body.
• It takes so much capital for sinking and pumping and crushing, and things of that sort, that companies have to be formed outside, and the miners mostly work just for wages.
• In pumping tests at the mills, attempts were made, at various times, to burst the pipe, but they never succeeded.
• Of course, the iron pipe will increase in roughness, and, in time the pumping pressure will approach the calculated amount.
• Water had been struck at the surprisingly shallow depth of forty-five feet in some places, and many pumping plants were transported over the mountains.
• The white summer moon was shining outside, the windmill was pumping lazily in the light breeze.
• Her Eye-Work was perfect, but she found it hard pumping to Blush at the right time.
• He had been pumping Captain Beatty, and had learned from him how, before leaving the Savoy for St.
• Pumping Returns from Steam Heating Apparatus a specialty.
• The magnitude of the pumping machinery on which the agriculture of a large part of Holland depends, is astonishing.
• Instead of taking slow, deep breaths, he breathed rapidly, pumping his lungs full of air.
• The men cannot keep on pumping much longer, now that we are three hands short.
• Thus, at the period spoken of, out of seven steam engines known to be in America, four were pumping engines.
• The pumping station and softening works are situated at Otterbourne, eight miles from Southampton, and were built together as one scheme.
• A number of years later I saw it still faithfully at work pumping water for his cattle.

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